A legendary Bond rip-off/spoof starring Neil Connery (brother of Sean, no less), Operation Kid Brother is a horrendous mess. In the book The Films Of Sean Connery by Lee Pfeiffer and Philip Lisa, the authors briefly discuss Sean's opinion of the film. According to them: "Sean angrily denounced the film, stating 'Neil is a plasterer, not an actor. Still, they put him in a film over in Rome - gave him the lead, too! It's a typical example of the way some people do things. It doesn't matter whether the person can act or not. What matters is one happens to be one's brother'". One could be forgiven for wondering if Sean was afraid his brother might go on to bigger and better things, hence his angry reaction to the movie. However, a quick look at Operation Kid Brother quickly reveals that Sean had nothing to fear - Neil is no actor, and the film itself is shockingly bad.
Mr Thayer (Adolfo Celi), number two in the evil crime syndicate Thanatos, is plotting to cripple the balance of world power by using a device which will render useless all technology with moving metal components. The British Secret Service are unable to assign their best man to the job, so they hire his brother Dr Connery (Neil Connery) - a plastic surgeon who dabbles in hypnosis, archery and lip-reading (!) - to tackle the assignment. During his globe-trotting adventures, Dr Connery meets enemy agent Maya (Daniela Bianchi) who works for Thanatos. She soon switches sides when she learns that Thayer intends to kill her once her usefulness is spent. After various adventures, Connery tracks down the villains to a grand castle outside Munich, beneath which takes place a final battle between the good guys and bad guys in a maze of caverns.
If it sounds like the plot of Operation Kid Brother makes little sense, that's because it doesn't. The film unfolds more like a series of haphazard set pieces than a coherent story. There's action, glamour, gadgets, beautiful girls, double crosses, violent death and a whole lot more. The problem is that none of it holds together in the slightest - every scene is undone by sloppy ineptitude of one kind or another, whether it be ludicrous dialogue or amateurish acting or just plain shoddy filming. There are a few positives in the film - such as the amusing score by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai, and the curiosity value of seeing Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny in the 007 series, here referred to simply as Miss Maxwell) indulging in some machine-gun wielding action. But the film is so poor overall that these scant positives do not make it worth watching. For Bond completists and aficionados of terrible movies only!
Mr Thayer (Adolfo Celi), number two in the evil crime syndicate Thanatos, is plotting to cripple the balance of world power by using a device which will render useless all technology with moving metal components. The British Secret Service are unable to assign their best man to the job, so they hire his brother Dr Connery (Neil Connery) - a plastic surgeon who dabbles in hypnosis, archery and lip-reading (!) - to tackle the assignment. During his globe-trotting adventures, Dr Connery meets enemy agent Maya (Daniela Bianchi) who works for Thanatos. She soon switches sides when she learns that Thayer intends to kill her once her usefulness is spent. After various adventures, Connery tracks down the villains to a grand castle outside Munich, beneath which takes place a final battle between the good guys and bad guys in a maze of caverns.
If it sounds like the plot of Operation Kid Brother makes little sense, that's because it doesn't. The film unfolds more like a series of haphazard set pieces than a coherent story. There's action, glamour, gadgets, beautiful girls, double crosses, violent death and a whole lot more. The problem is that none of it holds together in the slightest - every scene is undone by sloppy ineptitude of one kind or another, whether it be ludicrous dialogue or amateurish acting or just plain shoddy filming. There are a few positives in the film - such as the amusing score by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai, and the curiosity value of seeing Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny in the 007 series, here referred to simply as Miss Maxwell) indulging in some machine-gun wielding action. But the film is so poor overall that these scant positives do not make it worth watching. For Bond completists and aficionados of terrible movies only!