This movie is interesting, because it seemed so 'epic' (for the lack of better words), when I saw it the first time. It features beautiful Asian landscapes, Scottish castles, acrobatic feats, Connery's Bondian charisma, and the much-hyped (but not that interesting), completely unrealistic (as far as timing goes, for example) 'laser scene', and all this 'cool tech' and even the beginning of a 'new millennium'!
Nowadays when I watch this or even think about the movie, I can't arrive at any cohesive, coherent or feasible reason as to why anyone would like this movie. I can't remember WHAT I thought was so good about it.
I never thought sexual exploitation of men by putting a 'pretty woman moaning and doing sexy moves' was good content for a movie, and I never cared for Cathy's face that much (and I've seen better bodies in cheap 1970s porn flicks), her eyes look droopy and 'prema-scolding', only her mouth has sort of interesting shape from some angles, but even that's mostly because it reminds me of another mouth I used to like.
What I am trying to say, that to me, 'her presence' amounts to pretty much zero - her acting is OK, but not stellar, the two leads do not really look like they 'belong together', there's nothing that interesting about the stupid 'romance' crap.
The rest of the plot is also pretty paint-by-the-numbers heist stuff, and the ending is downright MAGIC all of the sudden - talk about Deus-Ex Machinas..
Maybe some day I will again find or 'rediscover' what I once thought was so good about this superficial popcorn flick, but right now I don't have much good to say about it. I do have a zillion questions, though, as many of the things make ABSOLUTELY no sense, the timings would never work in real life ('movie magic' is used a bit too much in this one), and people just appear and disappear like they can ACTUALLY teleport (the best explanation anyway).
It's a ridiculous, silly movie made for girls, except that they put a 'sexy thot' there for men..
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