A real Mills and Boon of a film about a World War Two heroine - its preposterous cock-and-bull story offering us Melanie Griffith as one of the more inept wartime agents. Indeed the film itself could well come from the Forties, were it not for the fact that Griffith is required to bare her breasts in the course of her affair with equally incompetent spymaster Michael Douglas, who sends her off on a mission that requires her to cook for a Nazi: she fails at that, but falls on her feet as governess for another German officer (Liam Neeson) The yarn that follows has lots of silliness, but no dramatic tension and very little subtlety, although Griffith does what she can with a rotten part and equally rotten script. 'I knew it was on a Friday that Ed and I said goodbye,' says her character, 'because the next day was Saturday.' A ludicrous framing interview by 'The BBC' is probably even more embarrassing than the story it surrounds.

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