Saturday, April 24, 2021

'Attack of The Robots' aka 'Cartes Sur Table' (1967) - Jess Franco.

One of, Jess Franco's more captivatingly far-out Euro-Spy romps is blessed with an eye-catching moniker and a bona fide star in Alpha dude, Eddie Constantine. The audaciously pulpy feature finds debonair Sir Percy (Fernando Rey) and his exquisite partner in robot-making crime, Lady Cecilia Addington Courtney (Françoise Brion)instigating a wild plot to kill prominent world figures for their own nefarious purposes! Unlawfully appropriating viable human subjects with the rare blood type of rhesus zero, and utilizing bespoke, world-dominating technology these programmable super-strong,'subjects' become subservient, spectacle-wearing, remote controlled assassins!

The prodigious talents of the boundlessly inventive Spanish filmmaker are zestfully expressed in this bullet-paced, dynamically shot, way, way-out Euro-Spy spectacular. An especially kinetic montage introduces these inscrutable, dark-suited assassins as they rapidly dispatch their targets with a merciless efficiency. With the free world approaching crisis, perhaps, only the exceptionally gifted, preternaturally hardy, uncommonly suave Super spy, Al Pieria (Eddie Constantine) is capable of rooting out these reprehensible robot wrangling rapscallions. Not long on the case, Pieria is very soon up to his handsomely weathered features in Machiavellian Asian gangsters, delightfully perky double-agents, exploding umbrellas, and haemoglobin heisting hucksters. Submerged into the turbulent murder vortex from whence these programmable devils were spawned, our resolute hero's espionage skills are sorely tested!

'Attack of the Robots' is a sleekly sexy, pan-continental Sci-Spy spectacular that coolly assassinates the competition!!! Buckle up thrill seekers as dramatic dynamo, Jess Franco will dynamite your boredom with his well-oiled, non-stop B-Movie barrage of murderously mechanized mayhem!  Maestro, Jess Franco is clearly having a ball with these Fumetti-inspired histrionics, playfully creating a Martini-stirring symphony of scintillatingly silly 60s super spy suspense! Frequently on target, 'Attack of the Robots' will expunge your ennui and exterminate your apathy in 90 bravura minutes of explosive entertainment!

 


 


















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