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With all due respect...


...how did the crazy idea come about to cast Raul Julia and Sonia Braga as Germans? It looks to me as if they had been cast first, and then someone decided that having too many Latino villains was not politically correct. Voilà, change their names (Liesl? Went out of style in Germany 80 or so years ago and hadn't been used since "For Your Eyes Only") and make Raul Julia try to appear unable to pronounce "th" correctly. But they still remain as German as a chicken enchilada with a bottle of tequila to accompany it.

Apart from this, great popcorn movie and rated below what I rated it (I don't like the term "underrated" as if it were an absolute).

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