It could appear that the two late installments in this series was to groom Jason Connery for a future like his dad's. There would be few other reasons to cast him and his character is rather daft, regularly making stupid mistakes. He doesn't even know how to tell the damsel to stay in the car. Generally, the acting is poor, and it mars the story as well as the characters.
Another nuisance is the sloppyness. In the first scene Palmer complains of circuses being fake and tedious but after this he is constantly shown as marveling at the show and utterly enjoying himself.
This film is better than its predecessor in story though. Some fight-scenes are also quite decent, but then I always was a sucker for the thug-fest (epitomized with Shaw vs Connery in "From Russia with Love") rather than the swirls and screams. Besides: A scene where a dog steals a bomb before running away with it and you hear a curious cat before the bomb goes off... And seconds later the dog comes back; there is some great humor in that!
Then... There's Palmer. You just can't go wrong with Michael Caine and he does deliver here. Perhaps not at his best, but more than enough to provide some smirks and moments of utter coolness.
4/10
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