NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Sarentrol Masterful Cinema

Skunkyrate Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Jeffrey Anderson I had a problem as soon as Alexandra Staden appeared on screen. I feel that whoever cast her in the lead role has never read a Modesty Blaise novel. It spoiled the movie for me - I didn't finish watching it. She is the antithesis of the Modesty Blaise character. If she had a full auto pistol in each hand I still couldn't take her as a serious threat to anyone. The character as developed by Peter O'Donnell was a sexy but very fit, active, and martial arts trained woman. A strong woman, tough and resourceful. A woman who could fight a man on a physical basis. Ms Staden looks weak and scrawny, the type of woman a determined five year old could beat into submission. No muscle tone and no athleticism. Possibly as I read so much, my impression regarding series characters become rather indelible.

Harvey Kong Tin I have read all of the Modesty books a long time ago, and liked them better than the Ian Flemming James Bond books. This movie is of course better than the one made in the 60s' - which I saw at that time (I read the books later on).I did read some of the reviews here, before viewing this fairly recent movie adaption - and I was prepared for a less than stellar movie treatment of Modesty Blaise. However I was pleasantly surprised at how viewable this movie is. I was not expecting a full action movie treatment - for such an action packed character - but when the action sequence did come, it did not disappoint me much.I thought Alexandra Staden did a reasonable effort at portraying Modesty Blaise - and overall I felt this was a reasonable effort at recreating the Modesty Blaise mystique via the cinema. I do hope that Modesty Blaise will get the full movie series treatment it deserves. I'm sure it can outdo James Bond any day when no expense is spared on it - this smaller scale movie will do in the meantime to show it does have the potential to be much much more. I just hope that a suitable actor will fill Modesty Blaise shoes who is prepared to play the same role time and time again...

Thorsten-Krings The film My Name is Modesty is based around an episode that takes up about one page in the 10th modesty Blaise novel called Night of the Morningstar. It describes an incident in which the young Modesty (17 in the book, mid twenties in the film)asserts her leadership in a war over a casino. As this is set before the actual Blaise adventures her trusted sidekick Willi Garvin is not in the film. That is one of the main problems as the relationship between Blaise and Garvin was certainly always one of the fascinating aspects of the novels and the long running comic strip. The other problem is that the film is quite simply incredibly boring because it really is just one small episode blown up into a screenplay. The casting is okay but Alexandra Staden is not really convincing as the heroine and actually too old for the role to play the young Modesty. I get the impression that this film was a quick and dirty solution as not to lose the rights to the Blaise franchise.

Enchorde Recap: It's business as usual at Louche's casino in Tanger. The casino is about to close and prepares for a big transaction the next day. The owner Louche and some staff leave for the night, leaving Modesty in charge. Suddenly a troop of armed gangsters storm the casino, shooting wildly. Unknown to Modesty, they have already killed Louche, and are now after the money hidden in the vault. But no one present, and still alive, at the casino knows the code to open the vault. The vault itself is heavily booby trapped with explosives so the assailants can't blow the door as planned. Suddenly Modesty finds herself eye to eye with the gangsters' leader Miklos in a game of roulette with their lives in jeopardy.Comments: This is a review written with no connection what so ever with other published media about Modesty Blaise, as I have neither seen nor read any of it. The first point I like to make is that this is slightly wrongfully classified. Foremost I thought this was a thriller with a battle of wits between Modesty and Miklos as the main plot. Sure, there are some bursts of action but they are not really an integral or important part of the story.As already mentioned the main plot and the main suspense-filled scene, is the game between Modesty and Miklos. It's an innovative and intriguing way of revealing the background of a character, and in doing so much of the story takes place outside the casino at a much earlier time. Someone said that it is almost like a pilot for a TV-series, and the feeling is that it might indeed be used as such. But, I felt it was a much better way to introduce a character than many other have done. I was in no way disappointed in the lack of action, instead I enjoyed this game, the history much more than a simple action movie.I think the two main stars, Alexandra Staden and Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau did very well. Staden especially portrays Modesty very well, and really carries this confident and talented character.7/10