Thursday, December 11, 2014

Hopscotch (1980)


A CIA agent tired of his incompetent colleagues retires and dares them to stop him from publishing an embarrassing book of memoirs.

Entertaining, but quite harmless spy comedy.

On second view: still mildly entertaining, but nowadays nobody can laugh about the CIA. 

Halliwell*: "Genial but patchy spy comedy caper; a filler for all concerned."

Maltin***: "Entertaining contrivance...Barely believable, but fun to watch, thanks largely to Matthau."


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