Product: Jaguar Lives
Rating: 3.0
Jaguar May Have Nine Lives, But Only One Movie
This movie boasts an all-star cast, very silly script and at times even hilarious dialogue. A movie that was released in the theaters back in 1979 probably should have been a TV movie of the week. The movie did not do very well at the box office and Joe Lewis, former Karate and Kickboxing champ, would be given one more chance to break into the movie stardom business in "Force: Five," which was essentially an "Enter the Dragon" rip-off.The fight scene set-ups are predictable, even for the time and at times are laughable (like when Lewis fights armed security personnel at the palace of a dictator and he escapes in a helicopter). Yet, I must admit, I enjoyed the fight sequences themselves most of the time, then and now. The climatic battle is actually fairly good and I enjoy seeing a real fighter like Lewis.The movie is a James Bond knock-off, with many exotic locations, and political intrigue - ok, the intrigue is EXTREMELY predictable; but, this is a guilty pleasure with a young Barbara Bach doing very little but looking good and Christopher Lee doing one of his many bit parts that kept him a main-stay in movies throughout 70s and early 80s.The DVD actually, well, sucks! I don't know how to say it better than that. The film was not re-touched to repair the damages of time and the extras, well, what extras. Even the menu screen is low-budget laughable - and this is a pricey DVD.A one star rating for the DVD package, but three stars for the movie. No, it is not very good (a lower rating is entirely realistic), yet, it is a great guilty pleasure and Joe Lewis does an admirable job his first time out.