Aces Go Places - Our Man from Bond Street (1984)
Reviewed by: spinali on 1999-12-08
Summary: NULL
The dizzy plot twirls around a plot to steal the British crown jewels. We're treated to pastiches of Goldfinger, Thunderball, Jaws, Road Warrior, and Mission Impossible, with stars like Peter Graves and Richard "Jaws" Kiel (both speaking Cantonese), and actors who look like Oddjob, Queen Elizabeth, and James Bond. I loved the hi-tech bank heist at the beginning, but the chase scenes (in cars, scooters, mini-planes, helicopters, submarines) just don't have the snap and crackle of the incomparable Aces 2. (Asian Trash Video notes that "the chase up the Eiffel Tower [actually] predates A Room for a Kill -- by two years".)

(2/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]
Reviewer Score: 5