Best movie ever!

Beautiful, moving film.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

I first saw this in college, a treat from our tutors at the time. 50 years or more later I still enjoy the silliness and a great way to unwind. It's a movie made in the 60's, I was a teenager then and wanted his lifestyle, hahaha.

When OUR MAN FLINT was in theaters a friend of my brother saw it and told him what a neat-o cool movie it was. My brother told me how cool Flint was and that in the movie he makes a bomb that looks like sh_t. We both went to see the movie and enjoyed it. But I then said to my brother "I didn't see any bomb that looked like sh_t." He then went to his friend who explained "No! I said he makes BOND look like sh_t!" ... D'Oh!

A "parody" is a piece of work that sets out to amuse by exaggerating stylistic and other qualities of the original and almost always meant to be amusing. A satire has more edge. That qualifies "Our Man Flint" as a parody of the James Bond series that had begun (to immense success) just a few years earlier. The question is how to parody something that is already a parody of itself? Is it a META-parody?There's no question about the intent, not even in the first five minutes. The pre-credit sequence focuses on a crowded warehouse full of international VIPs trying desperately plying giant computers to figure out how to stop a secret organization from manipulating the weather. Behind the credits there are writhing silhouettes of naked girls. And instead of Bond glimpsed through a gun barrel, there is Flint frozen in an open doorway.I don't think I'll bother with the plot much. The hero, Derek Flint, is an expert at everything from self discipline to self indulgence. He speaks one thousand and forty-four languages fluently. The only reason he doesn't speak still more languages is that there are no more languages. He's a black belt in karate. He rests by stopping his heart for half an hour or so. He has more electronic tricks on his person than your most powerful Krey computer, the one that takes the transcendental constant of π out to a million digits without revealing the climax. One useful piece of information you can draw using π is that the area of a circle is equal to πR². Thus, if you get the diameter of a pizza pie you can find its area easily, and if you divide by the amount you paid, you can get the cost per square inch of the pizza pie.If you think THAT'S silly, you ought to see this movie. It reflect every male fantasy -- of the 1950s. Flint is impossibly rich, and seems to stride around leaving a cloud of pheromones behind him because all of the "girls" in his vicinity have too much make up and throw themselves at his feet. He has to keep saying things like, "Not now, Tondalayo." But these spy movies were very popular at the time of their release, the early 60s, say, and stayed so for the next ten years. They have worn out their welcome. It happens. Some jokes date badly. Our cultural history is littered with obsolete send ups -- "Gulliver's Travels," "A Modest Proposal," "Shamela", "The Master and Margarita." Except for the original "Casino Royale" in 1968. I always get a kick out of that until the last ten minutes.

A secret organization called "Galaxy" has found a way to manipulate the weather and is threatening to take over the world. So a secret agent by the name of "Derek Flint" (James Coburn) is called in to stop them. But to do that, he has to find out where their base of operations is in order to destroy it. Realizing that he is the only man that stands in their way, they send out their two main security agents named "Gila" (Gila Golan) and "Malcolm Rodney" (Edward Mulhare) to kill him. Failing that they seek to neutralize him by acquiring his "four weaknesses" as an insurance policy. Anyway, this film was obviously intended to capitalize on the popularity of the James Bond series and it succeeds to a certain degree. It is clever, sexy, funny and quite preposterous. As it was intended to be. James Coburn plays his part very well and although Gila Golan didn't star in very many notable films she is definitely one of the most beautiful actresses at the time. Be that as it may, while this film has a definite 60's flavor, I think it still manages to retain its charm and entertainment value.