It's hard to work out what attracted two actors who were then two of the world's top stars to appear in a film whose script is its weakest link. Formula is right, in fact, for this is a standard high-finance thriller whose roots cross with those of Marathon Man and countless others where implications are worldwide and stretch up to men at the top of skyscrapers, whose power the hero cannot break. It starts well as a police investigation thriller, but the trite screenplay soon takes its grip. Brando has to resort to a weird bag of tricks to enliven a stereotyped villain who could have been played by any efficient Hollywood character star. Little remains of the rest apart from another limp performance by Marthe Keller and a series of 'suspicious' minor characters who are bumped-off in sequence, presumably for bad acting. George C Scott's frayed veteran cop is the strongest element in a film whose excitements are all too deliberate, and there's good work too from Calvin Jung as his Oriental sidekick.


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