6/10
Sporadically effective giallo
12 September 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Wow, looking at George Lazenby here, you wouldn't believe that merely three years earlier he had played James Bond! With his worryingly skinny body, his unkempt hair and his "porn mustache", he looks as if he was deliberately trying to distance himself as much as possible from the image of Bond. The film itself is a well-made but slow and diffuse giallo; there are sporadically effective scenes (mostly the stalkings and the killings), but the Lazenby's investigation is not as gripping as it should be, and the ending may strike some viewers as a cheat, because the killer is a character who is barely in the film! The on-location shooting in Venice and Ennio Morricone's extraordinarily weird score help; the traditionally poor English dubbing doesn't. **1/2 out of 4.
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