OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
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62 out of 100

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6.7 out of 10

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  • Summary: After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered, agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo. This is to be his cover while he investigates Jack's death, monitors the Suez Canal, checks up on the Brits and Soviets, burnishes France's reputation, quells a fundamentalist rebellion, and brokers peace in the Middle East. A blithe and witty send-up not only of 1950s and '60s spy films and the suave secret agent figure, but also of neo-colonialism, ethnocentrism, and the very idea of Western covert action in the Middle East. (Music Box Films)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 20
  3. Negative: 2 out of 20
  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    91
    The real joy here is the performance of Jean Dujardin, who, besides being very funny as the Gallic Maxwell Smart, is also enormously charismatic and is made to look uncannily (and I do mean uncannily) like the young Sean Connery of "Dr. No" and "Goldfinger."
  2. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    78
    A consistently entertaining parody that never once makes you feel like an idiot for laughing out loud at its idiocy.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: David Parkinson
    60
    Plenty of mileage is derived from Dujardin's dismissal of everything Arab, Michel Hazanavicius also throws in some supremely silly running gags, while keeping the plot moving at a clip and establishing a rapport between the hapless hero and his insouciantly accomplished assistant, Bérénice Bejo.
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    30
    The comedy is strained to the point of lameness, most of it exaggerated clumsiness, stupidity or inappropriateness.

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  1. JackB.
    10
    I don't give 10s to that many movies, but this one is a just about perfect comedy. Endlessly re-watchable, just as funny the fifth time as the first. Great little subtleties you only notice after watching a few times.… Collapse
  2. AlanB.
    10
    Great French farce of 60's Spy films with brilliantly comedic performance by Jean Dejardin in the title role of French secret agent OSS 117.

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