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Bangkok, Cita con la Muerte
Spain 1985
produced by Golden Films Internacional
directed by Jess Franco (as Cliffor Brawm)
starring José Llamas, Helena Garret, Eduardo Fajardo, Bork Gordon, Albino Graziani, Maximiliano Quiroga, Ramón García, Lina Romay, Antonio Mayans
written by Jess Franco (as Cliffor Brawm), music by Pancho Villa (= Jess Franco)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Small fry hoodlums Akuto the Indonesian and Aminia the beautiful
Siamese (Lina Romay) kidnap Marta (Helena Garret), daughter of billionaire
Flanagan (Eduardo Fajardo), but when they are to hand her over to their
employer Malko (Antonio Mayans), who pays them comparably little for their
services, they figure why not hold the girl for ransom themselves. So they
contact the girl's boyfriend Riao (José Llamas), and he agrees to pay
them 20 million Dollars for her release. But shortly after he has given
them a check for the sum, Malko kidnaps the girl from under their noses
and kills Akuto. Aminia of course still has the check and wants to make
good on her promise to release the girl, so she tries to reason with Malko
and offers to split the ransom with him - but that's less than good for
Malko. Things get complicated when Riao wants to free Marta himself, and
then there's also Panama Joe (Bork Gordon), a private eye Flanagan has
brought into the mix. So it's almost a given that not everyone will
survive the finale ... Now one thing up front, this is not one
of Jess Franco's better films, mostly because action was never really his
genre, especially when the plot has to suffice with the sexy bits. And
also this isn't a so-bad-good-film of his like Golden
Temple Amazons from roughly the same time. Instead, the film is a
bit of a mess, an overly convoluted kidnapping caper filled with badly
staged fight scenes and not always logical or even reasonable plottwists,
carried by an not uniformly convincing ensemble. But of course, that's
only one way to look at it, as if one looks closely, one can clearly see
how much fun Franco has with making a pulpy action flick, and he refuses
to take its story seriously throughout, instead throws genre mainstays in
where he sees fit, draws heaps of inspiration from comicbooks, and throws
in bits of comedy just for the heck of it. The outcome is ... well, still
not one of Franco's better flicks, but an amusing romp nevertheless.
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