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User Rating:
4.5/10   1,124 votes
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Director:
Scott Spiegel
Writers (WGA):
Lee Batchler (written by) &
Janet Scott Batchler (written by)
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Genre:
Action | Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
Killer elegance, deadly force, explosive strength... what's in a name? more
Plot:
The story of how Modesty got her name. | add synopsis
User Comments:
Unexpectedly good more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Alexandra Staden ... Modesty Blaise

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ... Miklos
Raymond Cruz ... Raphael Garcia
Fred Pearson ... Professor Lob
Valentin Teodosiu ... Henri Louche

Eugenia Yuan ... Irina
Ion Haiduc ... High Roller
Bogdan Dumitrescu ... Boutellis
Marcello Cobzarju ... Charopos
Dragos Bucur ... Janos
Dan Astileanu ... Squad Leader
Damian Oancea ... Sympathetic Man
Mihai Bisericanu ... Stassi
Stephen Apostolina ... Additional voice (voice)
Steve Bulen ... Additional voice (voice)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
My Name Is Modesty (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence.
Runtime:
USA:78 min (DVD version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Bucharest, Romania
Company:
Miramax Films more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Produced in order for Miramax to retain the rights to Modesty Blaise. Produced as a prequel to the popular spy comic strip, plans call for this film to be followed by more Blaise movies taking place during the timeframe of the comic strip. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#33.12)" (2005) more
Soundtrack:
Jared Hazak more

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13 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
Unexpectedly good, 6 August 2005
7/10
Author: Alan Deikman (Alan-40) from Fremont, CA

Unfortunately many consumers who write reviews for IMDb equate low budget with not good. Whatever else this movie might need, more budget really isn't part of it. Big sets and lots of special effects would have turned it into another Lara Croft movie. What we have here is a step or two better than that.

The nearly unknown Alexandra Staden is captivating as the enigmatic Modesty, and this is crucial for this movie to work. Her wise little smiles and knowing looks are formidable, and you find yourself wishing that the camera won't leaver her face. It makes it workable that the bad guy Nikolai, played by also little known (in the U.S. at least) Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau might take an unusually cerebral interest in her, something Modesty can exploit. She is able to divert his raping her with just a shove and spitting out "stop wasting my time!" then storming off between his heavily armed yet suddenly diffident henchmen. Making a scene like that plausible doesn't happen by accident.

Probably the biggest problem I have with the rail-thin Staden playing Modesty is it just isn't very believable for her to go hand to hand with an athletic and muscled looking guy like Coaster-Waldau and beat him. She just ain't a Peta Wilson or a pumped-up Hilary Swank type actress who can throw a convincing punch. Coaster-Waldau letting himself be overpowered by Staden looks like he's just roughhousing with his little sister.

Since this is not really an action film, this isn't a big flaw. I just hope they do better on that if and when they make sequels.

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