This wasn't something I had heard of before but strangely enough ended up finding out about it after doing some digging on the lead's ex wife. Apparently some people rate this highly and I enjoy watching 1970's movies. I will admit to being a bit disappointed with this one however.
The story is quite straightforward, the main character is an assassin who is hired to bump off someone, however a mistake is made and instead of being told to abort the mission, another set of assassins are sent after him.
The main problem with this character study movie is there is no real character to study. Its unlikely he mutters 50 words in the entire movie and he just sort of exists and broods for the camera. We have little idea of who he is and what he is all about so you do not really care about him. Nor any other character for that matter. Its all a bit flat and boring. Even the scenes around the assassins target are boring, people seem to be perpetually drunk or hungover.
It is a well shot film and it does hook you into the end with a few twists but its actually fairly vacuous. Compared to either of The Sweeney movies this is a bore fest. Apparently the lead actors career tanked due to his alcohol problems. Little wonder.
