Even worse than I remembered

Just seen on TV, first time since the 70's.

This is just the strangest film, Peckinpah usually so excellent at choreographing violence seems (as rumoured) to be coked up for the entire movie.
It veers wildly from a hard core "secret agent" movie to a jokey, buddy movie and finally to a frankly, pitiful martial arts movie.
Caan does his best with a pretty thin script but his character's obtuseness, walking into ambush after ambush and his "highly skilled" reactions seem to consist of blazing away on full auto to little effect, the shooting skills in this must have inspired moments of "The A-Team"....
Back in 1975 Asian martial arts, especially kung fu and the cult of the ninja were becoming popular, both take a severe blow to their credibility in this movie with hordes of ninjas being easily disposed of by the fat, unfit Bert and the gimpy Caan wielding his cane (shades of Daredevil!).
Definitely one of Peckinpah's worst effort - in fact it was SO bad I thought for a second it was a Michael Winner flick!



Don't touch that!
Why Not?
It does very bad things...