Review of The Kremlin Letter

I can't believe there are four positive comments for this dud! If you're tired of the James Bond pictures and you want to try a more "adult" and mature spy film, check out "The Ipcress File", or even "The Naked Runner", with Frank Sinatra; they are far superior. "The Kremlin Letter" is poorly structured (the main hero, for example, is kept offscreen for about an hour!), nearly incomprehensible, uninvolving, talky, and loaded with so many stiff performances that you may wonder why they didn't hire some wax-museum figures instead; they'd be a lot more lively. The lead has all the charm and acting talent of George Lazenby, and Orson Welles is used for decorative puproses only; you never even understand what he's doing in the picture. The movie's only interesting moments come at the very end, when it finally manages to suggest how cruel and inhuman the world of espionage can sometimes be. And Richard Boone is the one actor who injects some life into his role. Otherwise, this is a fiasco of epic proportions.