Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Wizard-8 The fourth entry in the official French movie series of "OSS 117" movies, while a notch better than the previous entry ("OSS 117: Mission for a Killer"), still fails to engage viewers as much as even a second rate James Bond movie. There are a few things along the way to catch the eyes or ears of viewers momentarily. The location shooting in Tokyo, combined with an adequate budget, do provide a lot of pleasant eye candy. The musical score is also pleasant, sounding very much like the music found in a James Bond movie of the same era. And the action sequences are pretty well done. That is, when there IS action. There simply isn't enough action to be found in the 100 minute running time, which will leave viewers impatient for the movie to get down to business like James Bond. I think the lack of action can be blamed for a very slow-moving script. Surprisingly, James Bond veteran Terence Young had a hand with this movie's story, but you wouldn't know it. The story unfolds at a snail's pace, and another unfortunate consequence of this is that there is no feeling of tension, no feeling that people's lives are on the line. It doesn't take long for the movie to become quite frankly dull. "James Bland" is more like it.

ShadeGrenade French thriller writer Jean Bruce was the creator of secret agent OSS 117 - real name Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath - who appeared in a string of bestselling books in the Fifties, and landed his own movie franchise seven years before James Bond. There has been renewed interest in him lately due to a pair of well received spoofs - 'OSS 117 - Cairo Nest Of Spies' and 'OSS 117 - Lost In Rio', starring Jean Dujardin. The original series, however, took itself a bit more seriously.'Terror In Tokyo For OSS 117' ( known in some quarters as 'From Tokyo With Love' ) was the second to star American actor Frederick Stafford ( the first being 'OSS 117 Mission For A Killer' ). It opens with a nifty Bond-type pre-credit sequence, with Hubert involved in a car chase, gun battle and helicopter escape. Back in Washington, he learns that an American air force base in the Pacific has been destroyed with a new type of missile, one so small it can not be detected by radar. The organisation behind the attack want a king's ransom to stop them doing the same thing again. The one lead is Eva Wilson ( Marina Vlady ), a cypher girl in the American embassy, who is being blackmailed to pass secrets to the enemy. Posing as her husband John, Hubert returns with her to Tokyo. Installing a bugging device in her clothing, he waits for the blackmailer to make the next move...It is interesting to compare this to 'You Only Live Twice', released the following year. 'Tokyo' is more slowly paced, not so gadget heavy, with fewer action scenes, yet works well enough on its own terms. Hubert trapped in a moving vehicle with a bomb aboard ( which will go off if he tries to stop ) is particularly thrilling, as is his later fight with a Sumo wrestler. Stafford ( best known for starring in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Topaz' ) was by far and away the best 'OSS 117' - cool, handsome, and charismatic ( he gives a better performance here than Sean Connery managed in 'Twice' ) - and Marina Vlady is so beautiful you want to pull her out of the screen. The last twenty minutes or so are dynamite - Hubert parachutes out of a plane, uses a harpoon to secure a hold on the yacht the villains are using as a base, gets aboard, and saves the day. Some stunning looking interiors. The yacht is capable of opening up and swallowing smaller vessels, a bit like the Liparus supertanker in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' ( 1977 ).One of the writers was Terence Young, director of the Bond films 'Dr.No', 'From Russia With Love', and 'Thunderball'. The only let down is the music which is on a par with Michel Legrand's infamous score for 'Never Say Never Again' ( 1983 ). The next film in the series was 'OSS 117 - Murder For Sale' - also known as 'OSS 117 - Double Agent', and had John Gavin ( of 'Psycho' ) replacing Stafford. It proved to be the writing on the wall.

dbdumonteil André Hunebelle was a good craftsman when it came to making popular swashbucklers whose hero was Jean Marais ("le Bossu" "le Miracle des loups" ).The spy thriller had the wind in its sails thanks to James Bond....So Hunnebelle ditched his previous genre for the more lucrative spy stuff.It was his second OSS 117 effort(the first one featured Kervin -Simbad/Jack-Matthews ) and it's not really an improvement on the first one.There is a true actress here ,Marina Vlady (oddly,she plays on the boat almost the same part as Domino and her camera in "Thunderball" ).And Henri Serre,whose career ran into difficulties after "Jules et Jim".And Frederick Stafford future "Topaz " star. It's not much.

MisterZZZ The O.S.S. 117 series of films are based on popular spy novels by author Jean De Bruce about an international spy named Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, the French version of James Bond. Hubert Bonisseur was portrayed by a number of actors (including John Gavin, who was later named Ambassador to Mexico by Ronald Reagan!) which is one of the reasons the series never caught on outside of Europe. Austrian actor took over the role Frederick Stafford took over the role pf O.S.S 117 for the third and fourth films, the latter which was set in Japan and retitled "Terror in Tokyo". In this film, Bonnisseur has to stop a group of industrialists from launching missiles laced with atomic bombs unless the United States government gives into to their ransom demands. Gorgeous actress Marina Vlady plays a woman in the US embassy suspected of leaking secrets to the enemy, and Yoshimura Jitsuko is a Japanese secret agent posing as a nightclub hostess. Bonisseur romances both women and while attempting to save the world from destruction. Not as exciting as the superior 007 films of the era but entertaining in its own way. Look for a great fight scene in which Agent O.S.S. 117 goes up against a humongous sumo wrestler.