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I always love manly Butler even in bad movies like this one. Sturgess was new to me but he was so good I'll have to look for him in future. Others in the cast were fine too. I'd have rated the story itself a zero but for the cast for you can't blame a fine cast when they act out the bad script they're given, and this was really bad, not even remotely true science fiction just totally laughable fantasy but worse. It was appropriate for the intro and exit to be voiced by a child in view of the absurd, childish, fact-free, delusions of godhood, enviro-wacko basis for the nonsense too ridiculous to describe. One reviewer laughably groundlessly condemned America being the savior in the film in view of her allegedly deficient environmental bona fides, the usual silly hypocritical, virtue-signaling accusation in the fact-free fantasy of mindless green hate-America bigotry that gives a pass to real polluters like China while condemning America's proven superiority in environmental responsibility. It's the proven incompetence of greens that promotes various insufficient "renewable" power like solar and wind power while conveniently ignoring its proven pollution contaminating the environment, any lie or omission to promote the power mad agenda.

It seems to me the real main problem with those foolishly giving this a bad review is their inability to distinguish reality from fiction. While of course dear Roger Moore was really incomparable as Simon Templar, though more so in the first two seasons than later where he sadly more abandoned the character's really fine ethos for the world's corruption, Rayner's version is far better than his detractors give him credit for and I suspect this is at least part of Moore being involved in it, though not as much as I wish he'd been. Sadly we'll not likely see Rayner again, much as I wish we could. I was too shocked to find who Ogilvy was, not prepared for the aging, a sign of my own inability to deal with reality! I do wish they'd not altered Patricia's marital status from the original, but was glad they vastly improved on and avoided the perverse nature of the relationship in the 1997 version. Ogilvy was good and I really liked and watched all his episodes, but to me Rayner has the edge on him in terms of finesse and flair. Those who didn't watch this all the way through by definition literally don't know what they're talking about so you shouldn't let them decide for you. If only someone had enough sense to give Rayner another shot at this; of course I won't hold my breath for that considering how badly they ruined the last Star Wars, as well as the laughable PC misandry of the latest Dr. Who!

This is really just an FYI that this 1966 American spy "film" is actually a compilation of the first four ~25' episodes of a total of seventeen of the on-season series, "Blue Light, that aired on ABC-TV from January 12 to May 18, 1966: 101, Jan. 12, 1966, The Last Man 102, Jan. 19, 1966 Target, David March 103, Jan. 26, 1966 The Fortress Below 104, Feb. 02, 1966 The Weapon Within The negative critics really offer no legitimate criticism in view of how FAR worse much of today's stuff is.