Review of Checkmate

Checkmate (1973)
2/10
Utter disappointment
29 June 2007
The cover seems to promise a female version of James Bond, but the truth is quite different. "Pepper" (as my version was titled) is too lame to be taken seriously as a spy thriller (just one example: the room in which there is a device that can trigger a satellite to destroy Washington, London, Paris and Moscow is guarded by only one man!), but at the same time it's not funny enough to work as a parody of the genre. There are also some drawn-out sex scenes thrown in for good measure, but since there is no connection between the characters, these don't work either. The heroine is fairly attractive but disappointingly passive, and doesn't seem to have any particular skills. Jane Bond she is not. Avoid this movie. 0.5 out of 4 stars.
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