Modesty Blaise

1966

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Musical

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 34% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.0/10 10 3531 3.5K

spy based on comic based on comic strip

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Plot summary

Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.

Director

Joseph Losey Photo
Joseph Losey

Top cast

Patrick Ludlow Photo
Patrick Ludlow as Under Secretary
Oliver MacGreevy Photo
Oliver MacGreevy as Tattooed Man
Dirk Bogarde Photo
Dirk Bogarde as Gabriel
Tina Aumont Photo
Tina Aumont as Nicole
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
858.3 MB
1280*700
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 4
1.8 GB
1904*1040
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

With the evil, bleach-blonde, "Gabriel" (Dirk Bogarde) on

With the evil, bleach-blonde, "Gabriel" (Dirk Bogarde) on the trail of a £50m cache of diamonds, it falls to the beleaguered British secret service to come up with some sort of plan to thwart him diverting them from their intended purpose. With their previous agents being less than competent (or alive), they alight on the dazzling charms of this eponymous character (Monica Vitti) who, together with her dapper partner "Garvin" (Terence Stamp) are to be recruited for this perilous task. It's all about oil concessions you see, and the loot is destined to prop up an Arab sheikhdom so suffice to say there's duplicity a-plenty over the next two hours as this sultry but savvy woman has her work cut out avoiding capture, torture (well, sort of) and betrayal. It's actually not that bad, but it's far too long and slow in too many places. The espionage elements could have been fun - it's got shades of "Thunderball" (1965) to it with a super-villain and his super-yacht living on an island amidst the beautifully azure sea with his black-clad henchmen, but Bogarde exudes a rather too annoying smugness as if to say "hey, I'm getting paid for this!". There's a bit of a twist to the tale towards the conclusion as it becomes clear that our spy and our sheik (Clive Revill) might have something unexpected in common, too, and there's a solid cast behind this as, for most part, it's tongue is firmly enough in it's cheek to make it watchable, if just a little predictably dull.
Reviewed by kurtralske 6 / 10

Pop-Art Whiz-Bang Falls Flat

There were some prodigiously talented people involved in this film: director Joseph Losey (responsible for the brilliant Mr. Klein, The Servant, etc), Monica Vitti (of Antonioni's best films), Dirk Bogarde (one of the best actors of the era), Terrence Stamp.So why does the film fall so flat? Somehow the tone is consistently off. The highlights are Dirk Bogarde's campy Bond villain, Monica Vitti's effortless glamour, the outrageous pop-art set design and costumes. Yet, the comedic bits aren't very funny, the story progresses awkwardly, and nothing engages or pleases the viewer very much.My admiration for Losey, Bogarde, and Vitti kept me going to the end. Without that angle, I think a viewer would have a tough time with this film.Camp is hard to do properly. It needs to be excessive, audacious, driven by real feeling. In the end, "Modesty Blaise" is only modestly camp...which is to say, a failure at being camp.
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