Mata Hari

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Tim H @RT40939980 May 29 It seems the mid 80s was a breeding ground for absolutly horrible movies. There's Good-bad, Bad-good, and just plain Bad-bad. My girlfriend says my super power is to be able to survive, and even enjoy the most horrible movies. There wasn't anything that fit, even in the slightest, into what I could could catagorize as even bad-bad. The shameless unsyncronized sound booth voice over and the ridiculous added sound effects were'nt even funny. A 1914 scene in a bathroom has a thorougly modern toilet and bathtub. I tried, I really tried to endure this through. But I just couldn't. My thoughts are who is the shallow shrew who sold this? Who is the sucker that bought it? Who is the cretin that made the decision, after seeing this 2 hours of swill, to release it? I can only hope no one stood in line to buy a ticket to see it in a theater. 1985 was the beginning of "Straight to Video Rental Stores". I hope that was "Mata Hari's" fate. See more Shioka O @RT54204327 12/02/2024 It just began with fully exposed breast of Sylvia Kristel See more Steve D @RT35616104 03/06/2023 Frustrating and lacking insight. See more 01/17/2022 13 year old me didn't care about any 80s starlet that you'd care to mention. I'd already discovered the forbidden fruit that was Eurosleaze and with it, probably one of its classier stars, Sylvia Kristel. You know who agreed with me? Well, at least in the theory that he could make money off of her? Menahem Golan of Cannon, who came up with this movie just for her. Curtis Harrington directed and he wasn't pleased with the end product, but this was Cannon. He didn't have final cut. "I wish I could have been involved in preserving what I felt was the integrity of the film. There were moments I felt were unreasonably cut. I'm not entirely happy with the cut. But (the people at Cannon) don't care what I think," he said at the time. Even as a teen watching this with no sound on Cinemax, I knew that it wasn't historically accurate. It's about a fictitious love triangle between Mata Hari and two officers, one French and one German, who end up on the opposite sides of World War I. Despite Mata Hari exposing a German plot, she's still arrested as a double agent and executed, even though everyone knows that she's innocent, which wasn't what I was looking for at 1:47 AM on Cinemax After Dark, you know? This movie was chopped up to avoid an X rating, Kristel was dubbed and she was deep in her addiction by this point. As much as I love Cannon, they were not the studio to make this, but had that ever stopped them before? See more 08/12/2017 Dismal version of the WWI spy tale first filmed as a talkie in 1931; Sylvia Kristel is certainly no Garbo. See more 01/29/2017 I kinda knew what I was getting myself into when I saw this film, because I know a little of Mata Hari. My problem with this film is I thought there was too much skin for me. I know that sounds crazy, but I wanted to see more intrigue , instead I got to see everyone getting it on so to speak. See more Read all reviews

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