Rotten
There's a whole lot of nothing going on here.
Variety Staff, Variety
The MacKintosh Man
Only MacKintosh can save them now - and MacKintosh is dead!
1973 · 1h 39m · PG
Thriller
Directed by
John Huston
Overview
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
58%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The screenplay by Walter Hill... has very little to do with character and motivation and everything to do with the incidents and the mechanics of the spy trade.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
The movie is irritating in its refusal to make things clear; if spy movies are going to work like clockwork, they have to be put together with some care.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Reasonably entertaining old-fashioned thriller.
Time Out
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