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Sadly Over-hyped

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

This obscure thriller is the result of a collaboration between three countries – Italy, West Germany, and Israel – and with all that talent involved you'd think the movie would be at least halfway decent. Sadly not. Instead, this is a deservedly forgotten little movie, that attempts to channel the '70s interest in conspiracies, mysteries, and thrillers but offers only lacklustre thrills and excitement. Don't be fooled by the promise of a 'Golan-Globus' production in the opening credits – this is before the two names became synonymous with OTT Chuck Norris films packed with cheesy action. The only action to be found here is limited to around fifteen minutes of boat, car, and rooftop chases that take place around the half-hour mark. The boat and car scenes are sub-Bondian at best but always go through the motions than offering anything in the way of genuine excitement. At least they show off the nice canals of Amsterdam which always make good movie backdrops. The rooftop fights are better and we do get to see a guy falling from the roof, so this is easily the most exciting part of the film.Otherwise the running time is padded out with shots of the hero, played by Fabio Testi, walking around, sitting around, or talking to people. There's a lot of inaction and even the climatic battle on board a ship is particularly dull by genre standards – this is an extreme (even ludicrous) case of the bad guys not being able to hit anybody while the good guys kill at a rate of one baddie per shot. The stand-off runs on interminably for twenty minutes or so and is enlivened only by an appalling Scottish accent that had me reaching for the mute button.The film has a gritty, dirty, on-the-street look but the effect is more depressing than enthralling. Testi, long a staple of Italian cinema, can be pretty good and charismatic when he wants to be, but the film doesn't offer him the opportunity. Assi Davan is the Israeli co-star and he fares little better, and the two are so thinly characterised as to make them almost interchangeable. Janet Agren – familiar to horror fans for her role in the cult Lucio Fulci film CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD – looks good (if heavily made up) but her woman-in-peril scenes are limited. She only seems to be around to whip her top off and take part in a twist worthy of Hitchcock's PSYCHO. Other regular staples of Italian cinema – e.g. Hebert Fux – are invisible in a film populated by cardboard cut-outs throughout.Utterly devoid of incident, excitement and the genre staples of suspense and tension, THE URANIUM CONSPIRACY is a by-the-numbers outing that ticks all of the boxes without ever doing anything right. Given the cooperation between three countries during production, this might be the result of a 'too many cooks' situation.

Surprisingly effective and brawny trans-global thriller from the gonzoid producer, Menahem Golan. 'Uranium Conspiracy' is a zippy action-fest fortified by a muscular performance from Fabio Testi, who generally excels at cutting a svelte dash whilst slapping the holy funk outta folk; and the testosterone-fulled Testi gets to dude-slap the moldering Christ out of all manner of sweaty creepo's as the pulp script approaches its breathless, exhilarating climax. A rollicking yarn that not only proves Golan was a competent director but also cements Testi's position as one of the more charismatic rough an' tumble leading men of the 70's; and I genuinely feel a retrospective of his dashing heroics is well overdue. 'Uranium Conspiracy' comes highly recommended and would be a perfect companion piece to a sedentary night in with a robust claret and a boozy clutch of euro-cult obsessives.

Altogether not a bad action thriller if you don't mind wading through all the filler spots including boat, car and foot chases, underwater mining sequences and a meaningless ship search for a supposed murderer. Thirty some plus years ago this would have played like a fantasy with it's plot involving a clandestine business group buying up two hundred tons of yellow cake uranium. Today, who knows? Fabio Testi and Assaf Dayan portray a couple of hunky secret agents on the trail of the deadly cache, taking them to various scenic locales in Europe, among them Amsterdam and Milan. Janet Agren shows up for the first half of the film as a love interest for Testi's Renzo, and if there's a twist moment in the picture it's what happens to her character about midway through. Although we're set up for a grand show with all those explosives planted on the Scheersburg, it comes to naught when the good guys make the save at the last moment. My question is, if the boss handing out assignments to Renzo and Dan (Dayan) wasn't too concerned about blowing up the ship with just Renzo on board, why did it matter if Dan went looking for him - the stakes were the same. Oh, and there's a character named Ulrich in the cast whose real name makes me wonder why he didn't change it for professional reasons. Seriously, you have to look it up.

Hunky secret agent man Fabio Testi (as Renzo) beds women, hunts uranium, and pals around Venice with handsome hetero partner Assaf Dayan (as Dan). Sexy Janet Agren (as Helga) provides the two with a amorous assignment, which Testi accepts. After bedding down with the quickly undressed damsel, Testi thinks she can offer no leads, but Mr. Dayan suspects otherwise. The best part of "The Uranium Conspiracy" is the lovely location scenery. The film's excitement grows much more exciting in its final act, with the dynamic duo of Testi and Dayan making an action-packed escape from some bad dudes. If that don't float your boat, order pizza, turn on the television, and watch something else. **** Agenten kennen keine Tränen (8/10/78) Menahem Golan ~ Fabio Testi, Assi Dayan, Janet Agren