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It's behind the scenes chaos REALLY show here on screen! It's choppy as heck, but has plenty of swell moments around both Sellers and Allen.

Funny thing: I am rereading Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, and early on Beatty is talking about this film and how it got him to take on producing his films so that he can maintain more control. Allen did exactly the same after this film too! But, what's interesting is that Beatty mentions that this film was already going forward when they decided to add more jokes by hiring nightclub comic Allen.

This implies to me, that someone else wrote the script first and then Allen filled in the jokes and maybe even rewrote the whole dang thing (hence his solo credit).

Beatty also lamented one of the producers always hires his girlfriends to be in his films. The producer was dating Capucine at the time, and Beatty (allegedly starring at this point) didn't want that.

Well, after hiring Allen, Beatty's role got smaller and smaller until... he's not there! I'm not quit sure, but it seems to me that Sellers was added to fill in for Beatty? Does anyone know?

Either way, interesting to know that it was this film that surprisingly kick started two major players in the 70s' New Hollywood.

Still, not a terrible film, but VERY much of its time. Dated humor and the overall style/look of the film, etc. I'm not the biggest Sellers fan, and this one isn't really working FOR him. He seems out of sync and out of time here.

Netflix thinks we like stupid people because we are stupid people. Shame on them for making this utterly miserable and irresponsible "documentary". It's total BS.

Thanks to this series and other docs (and, frankly, every news show online or on tv), the world now thinks America is Idiocracy realized. Yet, since most of us DO tune in to Tik Tok stunts and bad Netflix tv shows, we have become just that.

No one shames these people. Instead, they do indeed get their 15 minutes of fame because we demand it.

This family is embarrassing beyond belief. Unintelligent doofuses that can't see reality unless it's falsely presented on a screen. All I have to say to them is thank gawd I'm not them!!

Forst is a problematic character. Like most of these Eastern European detective dramas I'm watching lately, he got booted from the big city and is now working up the Tatra mountains in a small town. The "killer" trope (group of old nazis) has been done better elsewhere (despite even then it being a dumb trope).

He's f'n the boss' wife (or daughter? It really wasn't clear in the two eps I suffered through). Then he does all sorts of things that aren't "by the book". Usually that kinda behavior CAN work in these situations (Dirty Harry), but here he seems to be truly disruptive to everything and ultimately gets suspended.

He's still "on the case" secretly, this time with an equally problematic freelance "journalist". But he ends up leaving her behind half of the time! She started out all full of self-agency, but caves to him as soon as they start working together.

The cherry, or turd in this case, on top is the great locations so poorly filmed and edited. It looks like crap.

Weak storytelling, weaker characters and cheap cinematography: I don't need to waste any more time here. Phooey.