The Big Blackout (1966) User Reviews

Lackluster secret agent adventure

[gridoon2024 · 5/10 · 3 November 2010]

Secret agent Perry Grant is called in (via encoded radio message!) to investigate a strange case which involves counterfeit money, industrial espionage, and a fashion company that may be functioning as a front for a secret criminal organization. A mediocre entry in the Eurospy genre, not really distinguished by a couple of decent fight scenes. The production values are actually a bit lower than usual, so the action never really leaves Rome, and the "Big Blackout" (as is the US title of the movie) in New York that the bad guys create is depicted via some grainy stock footage. The lead is inoffensive, Marilu Tolo and Seyna Seyn have little to do. This one is mostly for the completists. ** out of 4.

Unremarkable

[Leofwine_draca · 4/10 · 6 February 2022]

AGENT PERRY GRANT is another Italian Bond knock-off and quite unremarkable as this genre goes. I managed to catch it on Youtube in the form of a very poor print. The story directly copies the Connery flicks, moving from random womanising and some light hotel fisticuffs to an adventure in the villain's lair at the climax. It's quite underwhelming throughout and the ending feels rushed, although the Italian actresses are always glamorous.

An embarrassing Bond attempt!

[RodrigAndrisan · 20 June 2020]

Above the opening credits there is a song with a guitar that sounds awful, but the bass guitar and the saxophone sound very cool. Which gives you some hope. Then the beach, the bathing suit babe, the scene clearly inspired by Ursula Andress 4 years before in "Dr. No". The music continues until the end of the film as if it were a Western. But it's not, the film is meant to be a story with secret and vicious agents. But it's just a chaotic action through Rome, with some fake banknotes, and with some very poorly executed fight scenes. The two women should be sexy, but they're not. One is liquidated, we get rid of her, anyway she was extremely ridiculous, as a character, as an actress, as all the other actors, as the whole movie. After an hour of total chaos and déjà-vu after déjà-vu, towards the end, the action moves, as in many other Bond and Eurospy films, to an underground base, where the main hero, who somewhat resembles a young Sean Connery, is now a prisoner. After being shown the secret of the secret weapon, as in most Bond movies, he will kill them all, destroy the base and save the girl (Marilu Tolo). Typical, right? Zero stars!