Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Myriam Nys An author writes cheap novels about the adventures of one Bob Saint-Clar, an impossibly handsome, suave and cosmopolitan secret agent. The life of the author is no great fun. He has difficulty in making ends meet and is treated as a slave by his editor, who pretty much answers the question of what would happen if a tapeworm could walk on two legs and speak. When the author meets a beauteous female student - all this and brains too ! - things begin to look better ; but then, the course of true love rarely runs smooth... The life of the author and the exotic adventures of Saint-Clar begin to blend and bleed, like the colors in a cheap fabric - and the results aren't pretty.This is the concept behind "Le Magnifique" ("The Splendid One"), a French comedy about the relationship between an author and his creation and about the dangers and joys of vicarious living. It is also a deliriously surreal take on secret agent movies of the Bond, James Bond kind. (All women adore him ! All men envy him ! He speaks seventeen languages, plays the piano like a god and knows his wines ! He climbs mountains and fights tigers ! He looks sharp in a tuxedo even when burning to a crisp in a volcano !) Belmondo shows himself a most generous artist by throwing himself wholeheartedly into a parody of his usual roles. (As an actor, Belmondo was France's Adventurer-General.) Bisset too delivers a fine performance, both as a determined yet vulnerable student and as Saint-Clars love interest Tatiana. The scenes and dialogues between Saint-Clar and his Tatiana are so delightfully godawful that they belong in a museum.This fine comedy has achieved cult status in France - and rightly so.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues When l'd watched this picture in 1988 l'd found it a crap...now in first time on DVD with original audio (Ugh!!) looks to me more acceptable and digestible...the plot is very clever but the acting is bizarre...nonsense and surreal....Jacqueline Bisset delivery your attractiveness to saves the movie....Jean Paul Belmondo is fine when he playing the writer only....the Mexican landscape helps to much....this odd french comedy is dated and isn't for all taste...but works for a killing time only and of course to see how beauty Jacqueline Bisset was in the seventies!!! Resume:First watch: 1988 / How Many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 6.25

clong_clong Bob Sinclar is the greatest secret agent in the world : he is handsome, strong, intelligent, unstoppable ... and he doesn't exist. You're irritated by the perfection of James (Bond) ? check this movie.This movie looks old, and most of its jokes don't work as well as it worked 31 yrs ago, yet, this movie has to be seen. It is short, and there are some great findings (and some stuff are still funny too). Actually the concepts in the movie are better than the movie itself IMHO, but it's still a nice movie. When I was a kid I LOVED that movie so much !!! BTW, I guess that the name Sinclar comes from who was James Bond at this time (Roger Moore) that was Simon Templar and Lord Sinclair on TV.I almost forgot : if you're a man ... or a lesbian, Jacqueline Bisset is a sufficient enough reason to watch the movie." - coucouroucoucou coucouroucoucou VOS GUEULES !!! cou ... ou ..."Check it out.

Bob Angilly (staffba3) Albanian agents are smuggling missile platforms into Mexico. An American agent is devoured by a shark in a phone booth. Superspy Bob St. Cloud is sent to Acapulco to investigate. There he meets the beautiful Tatiana, but their romance is interrupted when they are attacked by an army of Albanian scuba divers, armed with machine guns. In the middle of the carnage, a cleaning woman pushes a vacuum cleaner up the beach. She enters the door of a small beach house where...In a shabby Parisian flat, Francois Merlin, writer of cheap fiction, is pounding out his forty-third spy novel. He sees a young sociology student through the window of a nearby flat. Though he's never met her, she becomes part of his novel.From this beginning French director Philippe de Broca (King of Hearts) creates a bizarre comedy of frustrated desires and fantastic dreams. Like Walter Mitty, Merlin creates a fantasy life within his novels far more exciting than his own.French film star Jean-Paul Belmondo shows great versatility in a duel role as the campy hero Bob St. Cloud and the burnt-out Francois Merlin. Jacqueline Bisset is the vampish spy, Tatiana, as well as Christine, the sociology student who studying the popular appeal of Merlin's escapist novels. Vittorio Caprioli also plays a dual role as Bob St. Cloud's arch-enemy, the evil Colonel Karpoff, and as Merlin's smarmy publisher Georges Charon.De Broca is a master of light comedy and his film careens wildly through moments of high camp, pathos and outright slapstick, as the story switches back and forth between the fantasy of Merlin's novel to the reality of his own life. In the end Merlin must battle his own fictional alter ego, as well as his publisher, for the love of the fair Christine.