646f9e108c A Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent (a Jewish mercenary(?)) to infiltrate a gang of heroin smugglers. The mercenary is code-named Eagle because of a tattoo. Infiltrating the gang, he uses a female agent as a point of contact. However, as he gets deeper into the gang, he discovers that there bigger goings-on than dope. The gang is involved in the transportation of smuggled uranium for the manufacture of nuclear arms for sale to Libya and other aspiring third world countries. Things get even stickier when a ruthless bad guy shows up and he turns out to be one of Eagle's former cohorts in the Foreign Legion.
This is a textbook, routine international "thriller" with a tossed salad cast and plot. Rivero is the blow-dried, muscular-fireplug leading the cast, playing an off-the-streets mercenary looking up an old friend... only to discover his ex-mercenary friend is dead. But that's just the start for Rivero. Von Sydow (as a Spanish Super Police Chief of sorts) has him arrested and then pressured into infiltrating the heroin smuggling ring that killed Rivero's buddy. Maud Adams plays a fellow operative trying to get in on the crime busting action. Then there's Chuck Connors popping up for a few scenes as some kind of schemer, only to be mercifully knifed and let out of the rest of the movie ("Thanks for the paycheck and goodnight, folks!") Even later, about an hour in, up pops George Peppard as a ruthless villain leading the smuggling ring, with an ever present grin and a cigarette holder that he chews on throughout. But lo and behold, it's more than heroin, it's become a chase after the smuggling of nuclear weapons grade material. And Peppard turns out to be yet another ex-mercenary that Rivero knows.<br/><br/>All this plotting plays out between required high-pitched action scenes. We get the spin-out car chase stuff courtesy of Remy Julienne, some martial arts action, a long and familiar ski chase scene, a mano y mano handgun chase-and-shoot, and more than enough pointless parachute diving than you can stand. It all finishes as expected, although the film-makers clumsily have Peppard disappear at the climax, mentioned only in passing in the wrap up (perhaps that final paycheck didn't arrive and Peppard told the producers "Adios!") Rivero and Adams are both quite dull and wooden. The storyline is murky as is the camera-work. The action scenes are mostly second-unit stuff that doesn't feature the cast, so they really could have come from, or be later plugged into, other movies. Blah.
TARGET EAGLE is a cheap Spanish thriller that seems to have spent all of its money on importing various Hollywood guest stars and in filming a series of spectacle action sequences (skiing, a car chase, etc.) that are notable for not featuring any of the principle cast members. As a result, this is a pretty dull kind of picture, and it doesn't help it that the pace is plodding and the phrasing quite awkward. One-time muscle man Jorge Rivero is the dunderhead lead, employed by Max Von Sydow to take down a gang of heroin smugglers. He hooks up with female agent Maud Adams, of Bond film fame, but she doesn't really have much to do other than stand around and smile. George Peppard and Chuck Connors both show up in smaller roles, but despite all the star power this one sinks rather than sparkles.
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