The Next Man

Buy This Item The Next Man by Simitar Entertainmen  Available from Amazon  $4.95  on 11-29-2008     What about if Hollywood tries something else, more genuine than their eternal depiction of arabs. I feel sad for Connery for not being able to be more selective in his movies well, maybe some petrol and dollars are worth a film script but an old formula is just an old one! Reader Reviews It would be understandable if this pathetic movie were made in the late 1950s before Sean Connery became a major star. Somehow, though, he agreed to be involved in this mess in 1976. Did the famous Scottish film idol have serious financial trouble? Was Connery possibly blackmailed? Not only is he the only leading actor, but the film's overall production values are not even equal to a badly made for TV special. Connery plays the role of a top Saudi Arabian official who gets the permission of his government to form a working relationship with the Israelis. They have the technical enterprise while the Saudis possess the oil. Abstractly, this idea does indeed seem sensible. Connery becomes the target of assassins who prefer to keep the power in the hands of OPEC. Cornelia Sharpe is chosen to perform the dastardly deed. Will she succeed? More importantly, will Sharpe do so early in the story so that the suffering of the audience might be lessened? Does anybody in their right mind really believe that the virulently anti-Semitic government of Saudi Arabia would ever seek to form a viable working relationship with Israel---even today? This bizarre notion was completely laughable some thirty years ago. Does this movie have a redeeming value? Yes, it opens up with a now haunting scene of the World Trade Center against the Manhattan skyline. Is there anything else? I'm afraid not. It's all downhill after that.

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