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Good concept, poorly executed.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This must be a career low point for Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch and Richard Conte whose acting is uniformly cheesy and staged. With lots of additional bad acting from B movie extras and what is arguably the worst music track in film history (laughable, then annoying), it is not even a shadow of the ingenious, dark and powerful Film Noir of earlier decades. The skin diving scene with a Frank body double is particularly silly and laughable, but it actually takes itself seriously, rather than tongue in cheek. Other high points of hilarity: Raquel's giant hair and the go-go bar scene. This could be considered the Plan Nine from Outer Space of detective movies...

Arguably more entertaining than predecessor TONY ROME...if only for the oddball casting (Raquel Welch, Richard Deacon, Lainie Kazan, Dan Blocker...as Waldo Gronsky!). After a pretty creepy opening scene, Frank Sinatra is hired to find some missing jewels and runs into mafioso Martin Gabel and his goons. Sinatra is dynamite and has a lot of chemistry with Welch. Gabel is certainly the most unlikely & shortest mafia don imaginable. Directed, with his usual lack of style, by Gordon Douglas but highlighted by a priceless Hugo Montenegro score. It's a lot of fun and does manage to capture Sinatra at his most swinging. He lives on a boat, drive a convertible, is afraid of no one and is very mouthy. Longtime Sinatra crony Richard Conte (taking things very seriously) returns as the crusty yet benign Miami cop who helps Rome out.

If you can buy the idea that a balding, pudgy 50ish perpetually broke private eye who looks a bit like Frank Sinatra can still get the ladies, then the other logical shortcomings here are tolerable. Sinatra is a pro and gives an assured performance, but the rest of the movie is pretty routine 1960s vintage murder mystery stuff. A beautiful woman is found dead. The cops hassle the private eye to see what he knows. The private eye starts poking around and stirs up a hornet's nest of suspects and motives. That sort of thing. The style is perfunctory, and rather notably non-psychedelic for the mid-1960s, and there is nothing unusual about the storyline. This sort of hard boiled P.I. stuff was all over the place then. Still, the Florida setting is well used to create a look of decadent glamor and if you like this sort of thing, it's an okay time-passer.

With a few exceptions such as French Connection II sequels don't have a high strike-rate in terms of success and this is no exception. Whilst it is indisputable that Sinatra COULD act when he put his mind to it - From Here To Eternity, The Manchurian Candidate - the fact remains that he put his mind to it all too infrequently and often - The Naked Runner, The Detective - the best he would do would be to check his ring-a-ding-ding persona with the Assistant Director before walking on set.Part of the problem was that his millions of fans, including myself, would (and probably still will) watch him in anything which albeit, as in my case, not uncritically, left him free to be self-indulgent and walk through too many movies. I for one and speaking as a lifelong fan never really found him believable as a private eye in either Tony Rome or this sequel; it's just Sinatra perpetuating the image he had created since his 'comeback' as the super-cool, super-hip Jack-the-lad, ogling the girls, tossing off the one-liners and having as much of a ball as possible whilst shooting a movie more or less on time and under budget. Any movie that begins with a blatant rip-off of Farewell, My Lovely with ax extra large man (Mike Mazurski, Dan Blocker) hiring a private detective (Dick Powell, Frank Sinatra) to find the girl friend who disappeared whilst he was in the slammer is clearly struggling and the fact that it then abandons the plot developments of the Chandler story in favour of something more inept doesn't help in the least. Okay, if it's a choice between this and Mr. Bean then fine but other than that it's really just for Sinatra completists.