Up to His Ears (1965)
Fun French adventure flick with Jean-Paul Belmondo's depressed millionaire playboy encountering one damn thing after another after he signs a life-insurance policy and asks his best friend to kill him. At times, it seems to be a study in cinematic perpetual motion -- the danger keeps coming and the bullets keep flying and Belmondo keeps narrowly escaping death and running into Ursula Andress (hot as always, by the by) and generally having an exhausting time of it all. It does push things a little longer than they really should have gone (past the point of excitement overload; for a comparative experience, see Die Another Day), but it's a hoot and a holler the majority of the time.
Grade: B
Fun French adventure flick with Jean-Paul Belmondo's depressed millionaire playboy encountering one damn thing after another after he signs a life-insurance policy and asks his best friend to kill him. At times, it seems to be a study in cinematic perpetual motion -- the danger keeps coming and the bullets keep flying and Belmondo keeps narrowly escaping death and running into Ursula Andress (hot as always, by the by) and generally having an exhausting time of it all. It does push things a little longer than they really should have gone (past the point of excitement overload; for a comparative experience, see Die Another Day), but it's a hoot and a holler the majority of the time.
Grade: B
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