While this starts off intriguing (if a bit silly), it quickly bogs down to mostly talk and plotting, both from Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) and the scientists desperate to get their daughters back. The man who desperately needs a manicure and his equally evil daughter (Poulet Tu) have kidnapped the daughters of the greatest scientists of the world (I guess ones that only had sons or no kids at all were sparred), put them in a trance and order them to do their evil bidding. This includes sending the daughters who refuse into a pit of vipers, and set their sights on creating a machine that can make giant vessels and buildings vanish into oblivion.
The man with the mustache sits around or stands in his ridiculous robes has now threatened to destroy the world's biggest cities, so the clock is ticking. Sadly so was my patience waiting for these things to happen and for world security to get James Bond or Matt Helm or Flint in there to stop them. It's simply an opportunity for a bunch of beautiful women to pose behind bars, and it's truly boring and frustrating. Certainly good looking, but audacious. These juvenile plots are worse than even the most tedious of serials, only coming to life towards the end.
The man with the mustache sits around or stands in his ridiculous robes has now threatened to destroy the world's biggest cities, so the clock is ticking. Sadly so was my patience waiting for these things to happen and for world security to get James Bond or Matt Helm or Flint in there to stop them. It's simply an opportunity for a bunch of beautiful women to pose behind bars, and it's truly boring and frustrating. Certainly good looking, but audacious. These juvenile plots are worse than even the most tedious of serials, only coming to life towards the end.