Surprisingly incoherent and boring

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Did you people see the same film I saw?

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Difficult to rate, this movie is so awful, it's really quite entertaining. Jim Dale and John Gielgud are given their heads and allowed to act with such exaggerated hamminess as to bewilder the ostensible lead, Robert Hays. The scene in which the slummy waiter sets fire to the tablecloth and Dale cracks plates while he stomps it out, is utterly unforgettable. The movie also has a terrific music score, plus photography by the great Jack Cardiff, would you believe, and it shines bright, despite a lot of TV style direction. The heroine is attractive too. The incredible mish-mash of a plot is utterly ridiculous, but it is put across with such verve by Dale and Gielgud and other players that the film succeeds as entertainment, both despite and because of its incredible lapses in taste, style and basic storytelling.

Depth? No. Great acting?Not really, although John Guilgud is almost worth the cost of admission alone, especially if you have a leather fetish for great British actors... What makes this movie priceless is the club scene featuring Bow Wow Wow. For 80's trivia and music rarities this is a biggee: "Where's My Snake?" in performance. For anyone who can't help moving to "I Want Candy" this singular movie performance of "Where's My Snake" is Annabella Lwin at her best. Is there any reason to watch the whole movie more than once? No. But you will want to watch the scene with Bow Wow Wow and John Guilgud over and over for a great Bow Wow Wow and 80's video moment. OK: fans of light-hearted Eighties comedies will be entertained and there is enough plot, humor and unexpected gags to keep you interested. Like Sir John Guilgud in a great preparatory turn to his later role in "Arthur". But really, with Annabelle Lwin at the pinnacle of Bow wow Wow's fame: who needs a better reason?

What could possibly have prompted John Gielgud to appear in this abomination. I have a hard time believing it was for the money. Talk about a blemish on ones career. And Robert Hays was the same character in this movie as he was in "Airplane" which was a really funny movie.This film is idiotic, humorless, the acting is atrocious and I have a hard time believing it was a "release" rather than an "escape." The only reason I gave it a 3 rating is because there are some nice shots of London, which is one of my favorite cities.I strongly recommend that you curl up with a bad book rather than view this piece of tripe masquerading as movie.

This is a quintessential B-movie. Silly, but lots of fun with Sir John cavorting in every disguise imaginable. Despite the clowning, the script takes its mystery roots seriously and those that stay with it will be rewarded by some totally unexpected twists and turns. The critics roasted this one because they missed what the picture was trying to do -- entertain.