This movie was produced by the United Nations. That's about all you really need to know. The UN has slipped up many times in history, and rarely seems to accomplish its goals, something this movie embodies perfectly. Watch it and you'll know exactly what I mean.
The movie centers around a strange plan to contaminate a large shipment of opium poppies with radioactivity, so that as the drug is refined and circulated around the world, agents can track the radioactivity and see where the opium from this particular source is going. The goal of these agents is to figure out who is involved in the opium trade so that they can be arrested and the drug trade ended.
Following the setup of this scheme, which takes quite awhile, the movie follows two of the agents around the world as they follow the radioactive opium, meeting a variety of people who are involved in the drug trade in one way or another. There is some fighting and spy stuff, but none of it manages to be exciting.
The film's climax takes place on a train, where the agents and the bad guys face off. One agent is killed, which comes as a shock as he's been there throughout the whole movie, but it doesn't matter much as the other agent still catches the drug kingpin, and the movie quickly ends.
The whole thing is narrated by Princess Grace (of Monaco), but many versions cut this out to make it feel more like a normal movie. Unfortunately, that leaves the viewer with no explanation of where anything is taking place! Even with the narration intact, this is a terrible movie and despite its obvious anti-drug stance, it does very little to actually show why drugs are bad. You will be far too bored by this movie to care about its moral.
The best part of this movie is a totally pointless 3-minute scene where Trini Lopez performs "La Bamba" in full in a nightclub. Throughout the song, he keeps begging the audience to let him leave the stage so he can catch a flight! Even he didn't want to be in this. I wonder if he got paid the token $1 like everyone else in the movie (!) or if he was just performing in whatever nightclub they decided to shoot the scene in...?
The movie centers around a strange plan to contaminate a large shipment of opium poppies with radioactivity, so that as the drug is refined and circulated around the world, agents can track the radioactivity and see where the opium from this particular source is going. The goal of these agents is to figure out who is involved in the opium trade so that they can be arrested and the drug trade ended.
Following the setup of this scheme, which takes quite awhile, the movie follows two of the agents around the world as they follow the radioactive opium, meeting a variety of people who are involved in the drug trade in one way or another. There is some fighting and spy stuff, but none of it manages to be exciting.
The film's climax takes place on a train, where the agents and the bad guys face off. One agent is killed, which comes as a shock as he's been there throughout the whole movie, but it doesn't matter much as the other agent still catches the drug kingpin, and the movie quickly ends.
The whole thing is narrated by Princess Grace (of Monaco), but many versions cut this out to make it feel more like a normal movie. Unfortunately, that leaves the viewer with no explanation of where anything is taking place! Even with the narration intact, this is a terrible movie and despite its obvious anti-drug stance, it does very little to actually show why drugs are bad. You will be far too bored by this movie to care about its moral.
The best part of this movie is a totally pointless 3-minute scene where Trini Lopez performs "La Bamba" in full in a nightclub. Throughout the song, he keeps begging the audience to let him leave the stage so he can catch a flight! Even he didn't want to be in this. I wonder if he got paid the token $1 like everyone else in the movie (!) or if he was just performing in whatever nightclub they decided to shoot the scene in...?