Friday, October 16, 2020

 

MOSSAD, Directed by Gur Ayre ***

This hilarious spoof of the Israeli Mossad is part Peter Sellers and part James Bond.  From the get-go, the whacky humour punctuated with penultimately funny one-liners gets you laughing at every second. Yet the plot is serious enough. A billionaire tech dude is kidnapped by terrorists, so a handsome Mossad agent named Guy teams up with a less than perfect FBI agent. Sadly, the FBI guy gets fried in the most noble of sacrificial ways right at belly body level. But all is not lost; he’s rebuilt like a Robocop wizard. The bungling duo has got to succeed in their mission, or else the retiring director of the Mossad will  ose his chance to light a torch in the Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony. Such ridiculousness typifies the entire series of events that combine exaggeration with comedic entertainment.

The beginning moves like an action packed low-budget nail biter (but as a spoof). However, the movie sputters part way through, but still ends up befriending our silly bone in a refreshing way.

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