Oliver Reed (Oliver, the movie) and Diana Rigg (The Avengers, television series) star in this period off-beat, comedic action thriller with Reed as chairman of a company that specializes in murder for pay. This by now dated movie includes the typical comedic pranks of the period that Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther, 1968) excelled at. The action and pacing is uneven at best falling below the more engaging comedic action of James Coburn (Our Man Flint, 1966) or even the more sophisticated and memorial performance of Diana Rigg herself in James Bond's On Her Majesty's Secret Service released the same year as The Assassination Bureau. With some semblance of a plot and periodic humorous scenes, the movie is bearable if not memorable by today's standards.
Review of The Assassination Bureau
