The main problem here seems to be a very mediocre director, then Barry Newman and Suzy Kendall are both really mediocre in it (and it looks like they would have benefited from a tyrannical director with a much stronger grip on his story). At no point does it look better than your average TV detective episode from the turn of the 1970s.
Oh yes, there is a 20-min. Long car chase. Which makes no sense story-wise, reality-wise or technically-wise: what can you show for 20min that doesn't feel like a boring chase OR jumping the shark?
The plot is meh because you're either kept in the dark of routine action in a 70s B-movie, or heavily let in on what is actually going on.
Eventually it looks cheap and desperately unconvincing. John Vernon and Ben Kingsley can only offer a glimpse of real charismatic characters, and Roy Budd's score is mangled in between the beginning and end credits.
Oh yes, there is a 20-min. Long car chase. Which makes no sense story-wise, reality-wise or technically-wise: what can you show for 20min that doesn't feel like a boring chase OR jumping the shark?
The plot is meh because you're either kept in the dark of routine action in a 70s B-movie, or heavily let in on what is actually going on.
Eventually it looks cheap and desperately unconvincing. John Vernon and Ben Kingsley can only offer a glimpse of real charismatic characters, and Roy Budd's score is mangled in between the beginning and end credits.