karlericsson Review of El Condor

El Condor (1970)

remembered for full-frontal nude scene and interracial mumbo-jumbo

[5/10 · 14 March 2010]

Very much like his white counterparts, Fredrich March, early Gregory Peck, early Christopher Plummer (both these actors shaping up considerable with advancing age), Sir John Guielgoud (or what's-his-name), Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren (shaping up a little recently) and, worst of all, Chuck Norris, Jim Brown was a log-head and a bore and a reason for not seeing the film he was in. He was nothing like Denzel Washington, Ossie Davies, Yaphet Kotto, Samuel Jackson and especially not like my own favourite Cuba Gooding. Only Wesley Snipes and maybe Will Smith (who however has done the excellent Enemy of the State) can hold a candle to his magnificent boredom. In this movie there is yet another beautiful white woman who is chosen to go to bed with "handsome" boredom Brown but who also delivers some outstanding full-frontals as compensation, which is why this film is remembered at all. Lee Van Cleef never played a more unsympathetic dumb role but he does it convincingly and maybe he wanted to show that he was a good actor. Oh, why do actors do that! It's so very boring! The five stars is for the full frontals and for nothing else.