Mia Sara, Michael Caine, and Jason Connery in Bullet to Beijing (1995)

James Mason, Anthony Quinn, and Michael Caine in The Destructors (1974)

Pierce Brosnan and Michael Caine in The Fourth Protocol (1987)

John Hurt and Laura del Sol in The Hit (1984)

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi in Red Heat (1988)

Sean Connery in You Only Live Twice (1967)

Michael Caine in Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)

Jason Connery in Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)

Michael Caine

Jason Connery

Yuri Limonty

Len Deighton

Harry Alan Towers

Spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer is tasked with recovering a consignment of stolen plutonium in Saint Petersburg.

Douglas Jackson

Midnight in Saint Petersburg

Wooden performances and a dreadful script

Other reviews speak well of Caine&apos;s performance but I found him well below par. To be fair he has a dreadful script, an improbable storyline and no other star to live up to, but he looks just old, tired, (which he probably felt at the time), and miscast and it shows. The Harry Palmer of The Ipcress File fame is no more. Bullet to Beijing is better, quite a bit better, but that is also well below Caine&apos;s best. Connery is a nice looking young man, like his dad was, but his acting skills are modest. The stars of this film are the Russians! They give it a touch of authenticity and some can act.

It is not hard to see why Disney dumped both these films. Harry Palmer done in by Bond was the phrase I read at the time. However on a final and slightly positive note: both films make grade B, require little thought and even less imagination. If you have nothing better to do then have a look to see how far the mighty can fall. You will sleep well after wards if you are not asleep before the end!

Other reviews speak well of Caine's performance but I found him well below par. To be fair he has a dreadful script, an improbable storyline and no other star to live up to, but he looks just old, tired, (which he probably felt at the time), and miscast and it shows. The Harry Palmer of The Ipcress File fame is no more. Bullet to Beijing is better, quite a bit better, but that is also well below Caine's best. Connery is a nice looking young man, like his dad was, but his acting skills are modest. The stars of this film are the Russians! They give it a touch of authenticity and some can act.

It is not hard to see why Disney dumped both these films. Harry Palmer done in by Bond was the phrase I read at the time. However on a final and slightly positive note: both films make grade B, require little thought and even less imagination. If you have nothing better to do then have a look to see how far the mighty can fall. You will sleep well after wards if you are not asleep before the end!

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