French top secret agent, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, is sent to Rio to buy microfilms from a running nazi. To do so, he has to team up with Mossad secret services.
The story is lame and the action is flaccid, but as Hubert would be the first to tell you, the French have a word for those who can't take a joke: c'est la vie.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
10 Jun 2010
fresh:
Strutting around like a rooster in a thin-lapeled suit, 117 isn't much different from other comic Bond figures, but the movies find a fresh and exceedingly rich vein of comedy in his airy sexism, racism, and colonialism.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
17 Jun 2010
fresh:
It's generally friendly and enjoyable, but it sags a bit.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
24 Jun 2010
fresh:
The tenor, tone and immaculately lampooned art direction often make up for shtick that gradually grows thin in the belly-laugh department.
– Ted Fry,
Seattle Times,
1 Jul 2010
fresh:
All this is mighty silly, but there's something to be said for watching a French movie that, for a change, isn't about l'amour, existential angst, or madness.