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The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Just think what the world would of been like if Clint Eastwood had been cast as the secret agent James Bond? Well I suppose the answer would of been something akin too his movie The Eiger Sanction,although there would of been a few difference's to say the least,instead of the comic book violence of say the Roger Moore years,there probably would of been more people get beaten to a pulp by Clint's mighty fists,and while the Bond series has always been adorned by sexy Bond ladies,we might of got full frontal nudity instead.The Eiger Sanction see's Clint as a retired government assassin who is blackmailed out of retirement to under take two more ""sanctions"(assassinations). After completing the first sanction and being double crossed by the agency called C2,he is forced to carry out the 2nd mission after finding out his ex army buddy was killed by his intended sanction.Only one problem is that no one knows who the hit is,apart from the fact that he has got a limp and is about too climb the North face of the Eiger,luckily Clint is also a mountaineer as well as an assassin so the chase is on.While the The Eiger Sanction is not really in the same league as some of the early Bond movies and certainly lacks the Brit coolness of say The Ipcress File (1965),it does make for an interesting foray into a slightly different genre from Clint's usual westerns and police thrillers,and does not seem completely miscast when compared to Firefox's ex Vietnam fighter pilot.Apart Mr Eastwood,there is a great range of eccentric characters from Thayer David as Dragon an ex Nazi now working for the Americans,George Kennedy as Ben Bowman Clint's mountaineer trainer and a very camp Jack Cassidy as Miles Mellough en ex army buddy who betrayed Clint.While the action is fairly sparse for the first halve of the movie the film steps up a gear once the mountain climbing starts,but although its not chock full of underwater cars or flying backpacks and volcanoes full of henchmen,it does have a sharp and at times witty script,and also Clint's character is not the flag waving American hero,this especially comes across when he explains the hypocrisy of the US government, "You think it's so awful the other side has a germ formula? It's against the Geneva Convention, isn't it, and they stole it from us. Well what the hell are we doing with it in the first place? We're not supposed to have one either." The Eiger Sanction was regularly shown on television during the 80's and the Blu Ray is a worthy upgrade from the dvd version,but probably for Clint completist's rather than Spy movie devotees.
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