Tecnica per un massacro

The story is a mess of spying while the regular undercover agent carrying out a complex investigation , resulting in confrontations with a lot of fights and shots . An Italo-Espagnola production that follows the style of the Euro-spy sub-genre by imitating the European cinema to Terence Young's James Bond films specially ¨Doctor No¨, ¨From Russia with Love¨ and ¨Thunderball¨ . Engaging action-packed Italian spy movie with exotic setting , displaying ordinary trappings : thrills , noisy action , plot twists , several villain roles , bare fists fights , international locations with luxurious hotels , shootouts with high body-count , crosses and double-crosses, and being middlingly entertaining from start to finish . Concerning a series of incidents involving aircrafts belonging to NATO nations indicates a systematic sabotage , and agent Agent Z-55 or Danny O'Connor (German Cobos) is assigned the dangerous mission , as he goes to Turkey to investigate some clues and joins forces with Steve Brand (Franco Ressel) . Investigation leads little by little to discover a heinous web of criminals whose boss results to be the most unexpected person.

Eurospy movie with fairly bloody shootouts and violent fights usually seen in other films of the period , including similar genre fodder by having a often location in Turkey and the typical Italian or Spanish backdrops . A routine Euro-spy movie with thrills , action , car crashes , persecutions , twists , turns and amazing final. This is a film packed with twisted incidents and near-death getaways with plenty of crossfire in the dark and covert meetings . Mediocre rendition about European spy subgenre , a prolific genre during the sixties , not taking any situation seriously . A fashion and run-of-the-mill spy film at the time, meaning it stuck to a lot of what was currently popular , but here including some embarrassing and non-sense scenes . Stars German Cobos who is still at his most agile and deft style , in fact he performs his own stunts . He performs in his usual style an US agent , being really a sequel , as Germán Cobos previously played same role in ¨Agent Z-55 mission Hong Kong¨by Roberto Montero with Yôko Tani , Gianni Rizzo , Maria Luisa Rispoli . German Cobos was a good Spanish actor who played a lot of national and international co-productions. As he acted in Paella/Chorizo or Tortilla Westerns filmed in Spain , such as : ¨Hombre De La Diligencia¨ by Jose Maria Elorrieta¨, ¨Valor De Cobarde¨ by Leon Klimowsky , ¨Wanted¨ by Giorgo Ferroni , and ¨Blood calls to Blood¨ by Luigi Capuano and other genres as adventure as ¨El halcón de Castilla¨, ¨The Castilian¨ , ¨Fra Diavolo¨ , among others. There are also various Spanish/italian actors usual in the Sixties and Seventies co-productions , such as María Mahor , Franco Ressel , Remo De Angelis , Maria Pia Conte and Sal Borgese.

This is the typical European production shot in the sixties and it has more to do with the Euro-spy subgenre than the ordinary Spanish thriller . In fact, it has several peculiarities of Euro-spy such as several locations , spectacular fights , fun and a criminal plot being planned by a nasty criminal mastermind , explosive girls and something else. The motion picture was professional but uneven directed by Roberto B Montero with some failures, flaws and gaps . Montero used to sign his works with a number of aliases during his career . He worked in many popular genres , including Peplum , spaghetti westerns , action, and even Softcore , but it is his thrillers and Giallo mystery films which stand out and for which he is best remembered at which he developed an acceptable skill and mastery such as ¨L'occhio del ragno¨ or ¨The Eye of the Spider¨, ¨The Slasher ...is the Sex Maniac!¨, ¨The Sewer Rats¨ . And he made all kinds of genres , such as Eurospy : ¨Agent Z55 , atomic secret¨, ¨Mission Hong Kong¨ ; Adventure : ¨Thaurus , son of Athila¨, ¨Robin Hood¨ ; ¨Poliziottesco or Crime thriller : ¨Eye of spider¨, ¨An alibi per Morire¨ ; Mondo sexy documentary : ¨Sexy Follie¨ , ¨Africa sexy¨, ¨A fool's war¨, ¨Sexy nude¨ ,¨Mondo Infame¨ ; Historical/erotic : ¨Lucrecia Borgia¨, ¨The hot nights of Calígula¨ ; Gialli : "The Slasher ...is the Sex Maniac!" ; Western all'Italiana : ¨Oklahoma John¨ , ¨Durango is coming , pay or die¨ , ¨Thunder over El Paso¨, ¨Two sides of the dollar¨ ; and Wartime : ¨Rangers attack at hour x¨, ¨Damned platoon¨or ¨The battle of the damned¨ and "36 Ore all'inferno" also titled "36 Hours in Hell" or "Last Combat" . Rating : 5/10 . So-so Eurospy movie .