Flashman! Flashman! Put that to the Batman
theme and you get a sense of what this film is like. An Italian superhero
film in which the superhero is a member of the British Royal family and has
servants dressed in 17th century attire and wearing white wigs. For all I
know, maybe that is how servants dress in Buckingham Palace. Lord Burman
(Paolo Gozlino) is bored with life it seems and so has decided to fight crime
in a mask, red suit and a bullet proof chest plate. He also appears to be
able to levitate but has no other apparent super powers other than quick
thinking. And money. Money is a super power too in our world. His Robin is
his younger sister Sheila who goes along with him on some of his adventures.
There are two groups of villains that he is after.
The first is a group of attractive women
who find male suckers in banks who count the money and play up to them like
purring cats and substitute counterfeit money for real money. Heading that
group is Alika (Claudie Lange) who would sooner stab you in the back then
shake your hand. The other group is led by Kid (Ivano Staccioli) who has
killed a scientist and stolen his drug that can turn him invisible. When
the Kid and Alika team up to take on Flashman it is for high stakes! A comic
book styled film with lots of close calls for Flashman and his sister. A
dimwitted Inspector from Scotland Yard who is like either Thomson or Thompson
from the Tintin books is thrown into the mix because someone thought it would
be funny. It isn't. Most of the film is shot in London but they also
jet off to Beirut for part of the film and shoot a few scenes in the ancient
ruins of Baalbek where Flashman has a secret underground lair. 94 minutes.
