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This cheap, late Mexican entry in the Bond imitation game has very limited resources but knows how to use them well enough to be passably entertaining, though far from "good." It gets around the need for elaborate action sequences, sets and gadgets it can't afford by having the hero spend most of his time kidnapped by a mad scientist type (who looks like Dr. Evil), so the movie spends a lot of ITS time trapped in a lair where the hero is tortured, whipped, and cloned (yes, he gets an evil twin, though that isn't as much fun as usual). Nonetheless, women keep turning up to throw themselves at him, and there's the occasional fistfight or shootout to provide a minimum of excitement.

What this movie has is the usual escapist spy-flick array of attractive (well, mostly--some are testimonies to a different era's standards for beauty) women sporting lots of big hairdos and thick makeup. But mostly what it's got is Jorge Rivero, who made up in physical attributes whatever he lacked in personality, and the movie knows it--within minutes he's cavorting in a hot tub, and there other, later opportunities for him to doff shirt and show off his exceptional physique. So, a low-budget, bottom-of-the-bill adventure that isn't terrible but really only squeaks by to a status of "adequate" on the strengths of its cheesecake and beefcake factors. Nothing wrong with that.