No sense in belaboring the obvious, other reviewers have done it quite well already. This is a muddled story that's difficult to follow, with Gabriel Lee (Oliver Reed) seeking his former CIA sponsor's help to get out of Israel following a turn as a KGB double agent. Sam Lucas (Richard Widmark) is a retired operative, but as is surmised along the way, can you ever be retired from the spy business? Besides the hard to follow plot line, I kept getting distracted by Gayle Hunnicutt's uncanny resemblance to Linda Gray. That, and Richard Widmark's appearance in his early sixties, looking perhaps ten years older.
What's laughable almost to the point of embarrassment is how the near final getaway scene has Lucas commandeering a vehicle through every roadblock imaginable, including more than one cement block wall. That was one durable machine, so it seems that it could have handled those pesky land mines in the desert easily enough. Considering the set up, I would have preferred seeing Widmark make it to the end of the picture instead of Reed, but ultimately, it doesn't matter that much one way or the other.
What's laughable almost to the point of embarrassment is how the near final getaway scene has Lucas commandeering a vehicle through every roadblock imaginable, including more than one cement block wall. That was one durable machine, so it seems that it could have handled those pesky land mines in the desert easily enough. Considering the set up, I would have preferred seeing Widmark make it to the end of the picture instead of Reed, but ultimately, it doesn't matter that much one way or the other.