Typical Euro spy movie with ordinary ingredients : thrills , noisy action , fights and helicopters . Enjoyable and amusing - thoroughly enjoyed it - the archery/harpoon finale was fun and spectacular . It deals with an evil crime syndicate Thanatos led by Alpha (Anthony Dawson) and Betha (Adolfo Celi) bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind to a halt. However, the notorious British secret agent normally assigned to such tasks isn't available, so Commander Cunningham (Bernard Lee) and his helper Max (Lois Maxwell) engage his civilian brother, Neil (Neil Connery) -who "just happens" to look like his well-known agent brother- , to carry out the dangerous operation . The world-class plastic surgeon Neil , who results out to hold precisely the skills in order to thwart the nasty schemes of the crime syndicate called Thanatos. Subsequently , our valiant , easy-going doctor/agent , takes on a cunning criminal organization commanded by Mr Thai . Such close friends... such beautiful enemies...Neil Connery is too much. OPERATION KID BROTHER is Too Much for One Mother!

Run-of-the-mill Euro-spy movie with usual seasonings : gorgeous girls , pursuits , fights , betrayals , fantastic gadgets , strange artifacts , simple helicopters and impressive as well as crowded final . It has some flaws and gaps , as it does tend to get a bit old , including repetitive nature of some fight scenes , but it has big fun , so it cares . Really influenced by Sean Connery's James Bond series , Eurospy movies and maybe ¨Get Smart¨writers watched this movie before making their series . Neal Connery gives a passable acting as a brave but reluctant doctor turned secret agent , being an expert hypnotist, and lip-reader, who takes on a powerful magnate and having special skills required for thwarting criminal enemies . Neil was especially known for his role in this movie titled MD Experiment 508 Operation Kid Brother A. K. A. Operation Double 007 (as Dr. Neil Connery), a James Bond knock-off featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Operation Double 007 . Neal died on May 9, 2021 , 7 months after we lost his prestigious brother Sir Sean Connery . Appearing other actors from OO7 films as Lois Maxwell's character who here is the brains of the operation and Bernard Lee the famous chief ¨M¨ , and Adolfo Celi who played ¨Thunderball¨ , Anthony Dawson performed in ¨Dr No¨ , and Daniela Bianchi in ¨From Russia with Love¨ and ¨Operation Lady Chaplin¨. Furthermore , the villain Ana Maria Noe playing Lotte Krayendorf bears remarkable physical remembrance to Lotte Lenya , the heinous agent in ¨From Russia with love¨ . From the music by the great Ennio Morricone to the wonderful villain Adolfo Celi to the presence of Daniela Bianchi to the whole feel of the film - it all screams James Bond .

The motion picture was professionally directed by Alberto De Martino . This craftsman Alberto Martino was a nice professional , writer , producer and director who made pictures of all kinds of genres and exploitation movies , such as Terror : Antichrist, Holocaust 2000, 7 Hyden Park, The Killer is on the phone ; Wartime : Dalle Ardenne all Inferno ; Thrillers : Roma vs Chicago, The man of the ice eyes, The Consellour, The Puma Man , Upperseven , Operation Lady Chaplin, The insatiables ; Spaghetti Westerns : Django Shoots first, Seventh Cavalry, One hundred thousand dollars for Ringo and Peplum : Seven Spartans, Invincibles, La Rivolta dei Sette, Medusa against the son of Hercules and The Invincible Gladiator. Rating : 6/10. A decent Euro-spy movie for ordinary aficionados. That was a lot better than I was expecting, I quite enjoyed that.

The first 20-30 minutes of this are surprisingly good: a fantastic title song (in both the English and the Italian versions!), a rousing score (by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai), cool gadgets (driverless car), sexy and powerful women (Daniela Bianchi and Lois Maxwell - sexier here than in any official Bond film!), a bon viveur villain (Adolfo Celi), Monte Carlo and Malaga locales, and - last but not least - the sublime atemi (it's fatal). It slows down A LOT in the middle, but does deliver the expected explosive finale. The production is fairly polished, and Neil Connery, although obviously not a casting find like his brother, is inoffensive. The whole film is very meta, too - in a modern sense. **1/2 out of 4.

If you're a fan of the Euro-spy movies made in the 60s, how can you not just love Operation Double 007? Using the success of James Bond as a model, those crazy Italians certainly made some crazy spy movies. This one stars Sean Connery's brother, Neil Connery (who plays a character cleverly named Neil Connery) as a plastic surgeon / hypnotist / lip reader. With tongue firmly in cheek, we also learn that Neil is the brother of a famous spy and, as his brother is unavailable, the government wants Neil to stand in and give them a hand. Before you can say Dr. No, Neil's up to his neck in beautiful women, a super-villain with a nuclear device, the obligatory henchmen, archers on horse back, gun fights, car chases, blind Arab rug-weavers, can-can dancers, explosions, underground lairs, and a Japanese woman kidnapped by the world's most vicious nun/nurse. Don't worry, it all makes sense in the end (well, sort of anyway). Besides, if there's a loose end here or there, who cares when you're having this much fun.

Joining Connery in the cast is a plethora of Bond vets including Daniela Bianchi, Adolfo Celi, Bernard Lee, and Lois Maxwell. It's a real treat to see them all in a different setting. In particular, it's great to see Lois Maxwell out from behind that desk she always sat at in the Bond movies. Here, she's not only gets out in the field, but she gets the chance to mow down baddies with a machine gun as well. Celi, always the bad guy in a movie like this, looks like he's having the time of his life. There's at least one scene where it's not hard to notice a small smile come to his face and you've got to wonder how close he came to losing it. But as much as I enjoyed both of these fine actors, I was particularly impressed with the work of Daniela Bianchi from From Russia with Love fame. In Operation Double 007, she gets to play both the good and bad girl, wear some over-the-top outfits, and look generally fabulous. It's a shame she didn't go on to do more after this movie. She had a definite screen presence about her.

There are some out there who want to label Operation Double 007 a "James Bond rip-off". It's not a rip-off, it's a parody - and a good one at that. Operation Double 007 was released the same year as the more famous Bond parody Casino Royale. The big difference is that Casino Royale is one big, bloated mess of a movie that's rarely funny. Operation Double 007, on the other hand, is a blast. In fact, and this may be blasphemous to some, but it's more fun than about half of the Bond movies. It's too bad it's never had a proper R1 DVD release so that more people might discover this movie. The only way I've seen the movie is courtesy of a DVD-R of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode on which it appeared. It's a great episode, but I would love to see a good release without the bots and their comments.