LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

christopher-underwood I'm not sure why I find it so difficult to enjoy the spy film genre. Whether legitimate or spoof seems to make no difference. There is something about the genre that attracts the infantile perhaps, certainly there is a fetish for playthings, gadgets (and women!) where even in the most serious maybe things are not taken too seriously. With this the first of Umberto Lenzi's spy films I thought maybe there would be a complete subversion of the genre (certainly my box cover suggests so) more a spaghetti spy story with little reverence for the old originals. But no this treads a fairly well worn path (except for the female lead) and takes itself pretty seriously at first. Gradually one feel that Lenzi throws in the towel because it does become slightly amusing and maybe more of a spoof but even so there is no hard edge, all the fights are crap, most of the dialogue laughable (not that laughable) and the sex scenes brought up short. There is some fine location shooting particularly on the streets of Cairo and later in the alps but not enough to make this very watchable.

Darkling_Zeist The bravura euro-crime director, and part-time cannibal fetishist Umberto Lenzi takes a strident foray into the heady, glamorous, if not a little silly, cinematic imaginarium of the 60's euro-spy actioner; and, to be fair, he certainly gives it his best shot. While it isn't quite up there with Lenzi's uber-kult offering 'Kriminal', the film certainly makes for an adequate time-waster, and would be much appreciated by those individuals who enjoy this especially frivolous, and day-glo coloured genre. '008-Operation Exterminate' is a fun ride, and makes a rather lissome, highball quaffing companion to Jess Franco's 'Lucky The Inscrutable'.

morrison-dylan-fan Being bitterly disappointed with Umberto Lenzi's 1966 Komic-Book Spy film Kriminal,I was initial not that keen on taking a look at any of his other Spy related movies.Luckaly,as I was taken a look at his earlier credits,I noticed that Lenzi had made a much more fun sounding James Bond style Spy movie,which is said to be the first ever film to have an actress play the James Bond role.The plot:Getting details that the inventor of a now-missing anti-radar device (which can also melt anything that it is aimed at) has been murdered Cairo,the CIA and MI6 decided to each send their very best spy so that the "lost" device can be found as quickly as possible.Being given hardly anytime to prepare,agents 008 MacDonald and agent 006 Frank Smith rush to the plane and take their seats.As the plane begins its journey, MacDonald and Smith start falling for each other,which leads them to temporarily forget the chaos that they will be facing in Cario,when MacDonald and Smith discover that they are not the only ones after the device.View on the film:From the movies opening 5 minutes of the inventor been murdered,Umberto Lenzi impressively destroyed any fears I had that he would be as restrained here as he was with Kriminal.Showing the streets of Cairo in a tremendous blur,Lenzi directs the films terrific gun battles/Kung-Fu fights in a fantastic,whip pans,scatter shot style that keeps the movie moving at a very fast pace.Giving the movie a rather simplistic screenplay,writers Lenzi and Wallace Mackentzy (whose uncredited) give the film a number of light,cheeky Bond refs, (a characters shown reading the filmed in the future Live And Let Die) whilst also making sure to make the spy's and the baddies equally weird,with one of the spy's staying undercover by being a cabaret singer for various bands,and one of the villains being a ninja who cant stop throwing his blades whenever the mood catches him.Taking over a role usually held for James Bond "action men" the beautiful Ingrid Schoeller gives a fantastic sassy performance as 008,with Schoeller (who also sings one of the songs in the film) showing 008 to be a spy who attempts to complete a mission with a mix of charm and smarts,whist Lenzi shows off Schoeller's curvaceous looks in figure hugging dresses which would get a proud nod thumbs up from any Bond Girl walking by.

gridoon2018 Two secret agents join forces in Egypt (and later in Switzerland) to locate & destroy an anti-radar device, and retrieve the plans of its design. One is a British male; the other is an American female. Her code name is 008, and, as the title suggests, she is actually the central hero(ine) of this film, quite atypically for its day. The two agents have an equal partnership, but if anyone is closer to the "sidekick" role, it's the man. Ingrid Schoeller plays what is quite possibly the first attempt of international cinema to create a female James Bond-type character: she is beautiful, curvaceous, sweet, intelligent, armed with gadgets, expert with a gun, and can handle herself in a fight without needing a man to rescue her (as she proves in a daring escape from an enemy-riddled beauty saloon). All this, combined with the lively banter between the two leads and the crazy double-twist ending (the first twist is smart; the second nonsensical!), make "A 008: Operazione Sterminio" one of the most enjoyable Eurospy movies of the period. **1/2 out of 4.