Saturday, August 21, 2021

Cleopatra Jones (1973)

 The titular character is an American international anti-drug agent. In this film, however, she comes back to America to fight drug dealers and police corruption, after a police bust occurs at a charity rehabilitation center for drug addicts.

I guess this film is a way to deal with the age-long dilemma of whether the best way to handle the drug problem is to attack the production centers or to focus on the drug market. Here we have a super-agent who is proficient at both the CIA-like and the FBI-like angles, thus providing a two-pronged strategy. I guess the biggest problem with this routine actioner is that its leading actress totally lacks any appearance of dynamism which would be expected in a character like this. The filming is professionally done though, and the film may prove entertaining, provided one is not expecting much.

Rating: 34

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