Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues As l'd wrote before Dean Martin wasn't a better choice to be Matt Helm,he was old and already wrinkled for the role,instead all Matt's girls are gorgeous and no make sense whatever the reason,worst he enforce to sing along disfiguring the main score in twist sounds,in this final movie who shines are Sharon Tate and Elke Sommer, she were a very close scenes in those marvelous bodies in sexy walking and exciting legs,a plenty of action leaves the picture somehow acceptable and annoys no one,so l figure out that those girls saved the whole picture of total disaster just for a bad miscasting of leading Role!!Resume:First watch: 1992 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 6

gerard-21 Well, at least compared to the two Matt Helm flicks immediately preceding it. After a couple of pretty big missteps, the series returns to the fine form of the first film, The Silencers. This is in no doubt very much due to the return of that film's director, Phil Karlson of Walking Tall fame.While the budget was obviously reduced for this one, it may have helped the pacing, which is not bogged down by cumbersome set pieces and elaborate gadgets. From the time Helm first arrives at Contini's château, the movie races breezily along helped by well choreographed (by Bruce Lee!)fight scenes in place of the earlier movies' overblown hovercraft chases, runaway spaceships and the like. Additionally, this is the only one of the 4 Helm movies where the main villain's death doesn't seem anti-climatic. The soundtrack is great and absolutely helps to keep things moving along as well.This cast is most enjoyable, with Nigel Green stealing the show while stealing the gold. He delivers many of the best lines in the movie, nay the series. Nancy Kwan and Elke Sommer are excellent as a couple of deadly femme fatales and Tina Louise is rescued from Gilligan's island just in time to give Helm his first lead. Sharon Tate showed a proclivity for comedy that was so deft and popular with movie goers that she was supposed to reprise her role in the never to be made The Ravagers. Also notable was the film debut of a little known martial arts expert named Chuck Norris. Dino himself seems to be enjoying the proceedings this time around and is a little more energetic. MacDonald, Helm's boss, is now being played by John Larch and actually takes part in some of the action.In conclusion, this is one tight, exciting and truly funny (without being silly) little movie, at least by Dean Martin Matt Helm standards. It's too bad this was the last in line, because it could have served as the action comedy template going forward.

tavm Though I know this was the last of the Dean Martin/Matt Helm pictures, it's the very first one I've seen just now on YouTube. I have to admit right up front that while the beginning with the premise just being explained was pretty exciting, I thought much of the rest of the action and fighting were lacking but then that may have been because the sound and dialogue synchronization was ahead of the actual picture by a few seconds on the upload. Still, it wasn't too bad what was depicted and with gorgeous women like Tina Louise, Nancy Kwan, Elke Sommer, and especially Sharon Tate as a redhead, how can this film fail in my eyes? Yes, Dino seemed a little mature when sharing scenes with some of them but he sure seemed to having sooo much fun and that's infectious! And that score by Hugo Montenegro sure was groovy fun! This picture sure made the swinging sixties seem like such fun, that's for sure! Okay, I think I've said enough so on that note, The Wrecking Crew is very much worth a look.

MARIO GAUCI This certainly isn't up to THE SILENCERS (1966), being too derivative in nature and uneven in tone, but hardly the terrible film most critics would have one believe (though I still give them the benefit of the doubt with respect to the remaining two entries in the Matt Helm series – which I couldn't get my hands on and, consequently, haven't watched).As I said, many of the elements found in the original film (with which it shares director Karlson) are repeated here – from Dean Martin's tuneful (and humorous) interjections to the gadgets provided by I.C.E. (which seem to have become progressively sillier!) and even the love/hate relationship between Helm and his stunning but 'klutzy' partner (played by the ill-fated Sharon Tate: this was her penultimate film). As a matter of fact, the glamorous nature of her character is kept under wraps during the film's first half – allowing the triumvirate of femme fatales (Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan and Tina Louise) to take center-stage – but Tate's subsequent unforeseen blossoming is all the more effective because of this reason! The villain is also ideally cast: Nigel Green, who wisely opts to play it straight; the character of Helm's superior, then, is now played by John Larch (who even gets in on the action towards the end!). While there's the usual array of car chases and gun-toting action, this entry provides some novelty with its burst of karate fighting (featuring a debuting Chuck Norris and choreographed by none other than Bruce Lee, though he seems to have been caught on an off-day as these mostly come off as lackluster here – including a duel between Tate and Kwan, which was a good idea in itself!). As expected, the film generates considerable steam (notably the bedroom scenes Martin shares with gypsy Louise – whom Green has dropped in favor of chic Sommer and who has now decided to spill the beans about his involvement in a bullion robbery from a moving train – and, later, the scheming Sommer herself); however, the fact that Tate would be brutally murdered within months makes her presence arresting – even when indulging in slapstick situations (down to imitating Oliver Hardy from WAY OUT WEST [1937] by unwittingly walking through deceptively shallow waters!).The fourth entry in the "Matt Helm" series does seem to have managed a more elaborate climax than THE SILENCERS, as the action starts in Kwan's club "The House Of Seven Joys" (at one point, intended as the film's title – the current credits are even accompanied by a song about it!) – which includes a secret revolving panel leading straight to Green's château (this location is then destroyed largely through Tate's clumsiness!), continues with a helicopter chase (built on the spot by Martin, whose parts he conveniently keeps in the booth of his car!) and finally relocates to a speeding train (armed with a trapdoor!) being driven by the fleeing Green. Another solid element here, indeed the best thing about the entire film, is Hugo Montenegro's catchy score (it was pure coincidence that I watched two thrillers scored by him and featuring members of the Rat Pack in quick succession!). Still, there are a number of surefire gags involving Kwan's name (Yu-rang – "No, I didn't", replies Helm at her formal introduction to him!), Martin reversing Tate's victory sign in exasperation when she interrupts his dalliance with Sommer, and Tate borrowing one of Martin's exploding hankies (which she then throws away in panic in the direction of his car, naturally wrecking it completely in the process!).Again, the ending promotes an upcoming Matt Helm adventure to be entitled THE RAVAGERS – but which was never made given increasingly diminishing returns at the box-office (though Helm did return in the form of a TV series starring Anthony Franciosa)! Tying this up with the Frank Sinatra/Tony Rome vehicle LADY IN CEMENT (1968), which preceded my viewing of THE WRECKING CREW, there was talk at the time of bringing together the two Rat Packers once again in the guise of Helm and Rome – but the idea was subsequently dropped and, in any case, the mood of each individual series is so different that it's hard to see how they could have coalesced convincingly