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...chases, aerobatics, all the sophisticated paraphernalia of Saturday-matinee thrills-have devised some splendid optional features for For Your Eyes Only. There is a funny-brutal pentathlon of alpine sports: cross-country skiing with hired assassins; a two-man ski jump with the competitors gouging each other in midair; downhill racing at gunpoint; a bobsled run on skis; ice hockey using players as pucks. Director Glen has kept the plot moving briskly, and, in several action sequences, clipped a frame or two from within a shot to increase the impact. With prominent display of Bond's Lotus Esprit Turbo...
...hijackers. There was Zia himself, who apparently had no military option left and therefore chose to give in to the demands to avoid a "bloodbath." Finally, there was the Libyan government, which initially offered asylum to the 54 Pakistani inmates-then reneged while its disinvited guests were literally in midair...
...case of shin splints earlier in the week, only to have them return to haunt him while going into the press for the inward one and a half. Not wanting a balk scored against him, Mule continued the dive and lost points trying to regain form in midair...
...make white penknives turn black and rubber balls multiply. His pièce de résistance occurred at China's most magical setting: the Great Wall. There Wilson chose a young volunteer and, without so much as an abracadabra or its Mandarin equivalent, set her afloat in midair. "You don't need words to do magic," he says. "Magic itself is a universal language...
Being There is a spectacular balancing act. For almost two hours, Writer Jerzy Kosinski, Director Hal Ashby and Star Peter Sellers keep a single, scorchingly witty joke floating miraculously through midair. Though the joke ultimately crashes to earth too early-about 15 minutes before the movie ends-the final letdown does not spoil what has gone before. Here is a comedy that valiantly defies both gravity and the latest Hollywood fashion. There isn't a single laugh in Being There that owes anything to Animal House...