THE EIGER SANCTION (1975) ** Clint Eastwood would have been a great Spider-Man, just watching him climb around those mountains. Imagine if he had webs! Clint has a few very funny lines early, along with some dumb ones, but nothing of much interest to say or do down the stretch. I guess some people consider mountain climbing a spectator sport. Clint probably realizes that his picture loses momentum with regularity and so-I'm guessing, I didn't read it-lapses into Trevanian's borrowed method of regularly introducing a new female or two, so astounded by Clint's very presence that they lapse into frenetic animal states. Or maybe that's the only gear they ever had, I'm not sure. You could throw them all out without affecting the plot. Trevanian/Eastwood actually flirt with saying something interesting, and of historical significance, about ex-Nazi prominence in the OSS/CIA, but back off by merely noting the overlap in membership and that they aren't very nice people. So it's Clint doing a not particularly memorable rendition of Trevanian wishing he'd invented James Bond. Clint's beating up people, and killing them, but it's all because he's into art, you understand. Probably not of much interest unless you're a pot-bellied old white bourbon guy trying to think of things that you should have done, and desperately in need of an example of how to spot a boob job.
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