Nonureva Really Surprised!

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

bensonmum2 Agent X-77, Serge Vadile (Gerard Barray), attempts to stop a rogue organization from getting its hands on a new, top-secret rocket fuel. His only assistance comes from a nurse, untrained as special agent. Not the best Eurospy film I've ever seen, but Agent X-77 Orders to Kill is a decent effort with enough fun stuff to make it worthwhile. I recently wrote some fairly negative things about another Eurospy film called Agent Sigma 3. I thought it might be fun to compare the two to see why I prefer Agent X-77 to Agent Sigma 3. Agent Sigma 3 – Lead actor was dull. Agent X-77 – Lead actor (Barray) has enough charm and charisma to pull off the role of a secret agent. He's good.Agent Sigma 3 – The plot was empty and characters move from place to place without much happening. Agent X-77 – While it might not be the best plot, there's more going on in a coherent fashion to keep things moving along nicely. Character actions have a purpose and fit the story being told. Agent Sigma 3 – The characters don't distinguish themselves. Agent X-77 – The bad guys here are played in a much sharper focus. Each of the three or four main bad guys had a definite personality and characteristics. Agent Sigma 3 – Poorly choreographed fight scenes. Agent X-77 – Much better fight choreography. Barray looks more like he knows what he's doing. Not perfect by any stretch, but much better than Agent Sigma 3. If all that weren't enough, the icing on the cake that gives a huge edge to Agent X-77 over Agent Sigma 3 is Sylva Koscina as the nurse, Mania. I've written this before about Margaret Lee, but it holds true for Koscina – any movie with Sylva Koscina is better just because she's in the movie. She's incredible.My 6/10 rating would indicate that I had a few issues with the movie. The love scene between the female agent and the spy was silly, the plot could have been a bit more focused, and the ridiculous player piano music that's heard every time Vadile drives his car is nothing short of an assault on the senses.

rodrig58 I had some hopes concerning this movie, I thought that's something special: total disappointment! First, it has an annoying song that keeps repeating almost every 10 minutes. Then the subject is all s..t. Gerard Barray bustle around here and there, in a convertible red car, shares some punches and shootings, between some kisses with Sylva Koscina and, that's it, nothing more happens. A small explosion in the end, everything completely pointless and meaningless. Almost all these films have as character "a professor", which is ridiculous in every way. All the other characters, revolves around the professor. Waste of time and nothing else.

dbdumonteil In the wake of James Bond' s unprecedented success in the field of the spy thriller,Maurice Cloche ,like so many others,jumped on the bandwagon,he who began his career in....1937.In -to put it mildly - an uneven filmography ,he made some estimable works such as "Le Petit Chose" and his admirable "Monsieur Vincent" ;the late fifties found him lost in a world of pimps , prostitutes and gangsters."X13" is his second spy thriller ,after his Coplan (1964) and before his "Vicomte " (1966).The hero,Serge Vadile " X13 " was renamed X77 (X double 7,to look like you-know-who) and "Baraka pour" became "orders to kill" ,which sounds like " license to kill";besides,the action often takes place in a clinic ,with bandages galore,a la "thunderball".All this to try and crack the commercial coconut of the international market.Although full of implausibilities (after being flogged till he bleeds,X13 makes short work of three opponents ),this spy flick is probably the most pleasant of the trilogy :its principal ,Gérard Barray ,was a very talented actor,handsome and dynamic,with a good sense of humor;like his director ,he had to retrain into the spy thrillers,after having been a sword hero in swashbucklers;Sylva Koscina is a nurse many a patient would like to have ,but her part is decorative ;she even says towards the end "I'm bored " after the secret agent has told him for the umpteenth time "If I'm not back in fifteen minutes ....".This is a far-fetched story which revolves around the key to a professor code ;the only (relatively ) original idea is Ingrid 's role (Agnes Spaak),Vadile's collaborator ,who falls for a man and continues to love him even when she learns he is an enemy.The original title means " X13 got lucky"

dinky-4 The French cinema is capable of many things, but the James Bond-type spy thriller is apparently not one of them. This particular effort lacks an intriguing plot, has no flair for action, and can't provide sparkling give-and-take dialog for its leading man and leading lady.Sylva Koscina, always better than her material, looks good but has little of substance to do. Gerard Barray displays moments of charm but his prowess in fist-fights is never very persuasive. He does, however, get de-shirted and flogged in what may be the screen's third best example of a man being suspended by his wrists so that his feet don't touch the ground during the course of his punishment. (Okay, the two better examples are Charles Bronson in "Chino" and Charles Starrett in "The Mask of Fu Manchu.") Incidentally, Barray's flogging ranks 30th in the book, "Lash! The Hundred Great Scenes of Men Being Whipped in the Movies."