The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
The evil and sadistic Sumuru (Shirley Eaton) builds a group of women who plan on killing all of the men that they can. Agent Nick West (George Nader) and his sidekick (Frankie Avalon) are thrown into the game to try and track her down.
THE MILLION EYES OF SUMURU is based on the Sax Rohmer character and story but I must admit that I really didn't care for it. To be honest, I really don't care for any of the movies like this. It seems like after the success of James Bond we got all sorts of lower tier characters and spy stories that were usually pretty to look at but they contained very little else. Movies like this one of even the Dr. Goldfoot movies just never cut it for me.
The biggest problem here, and with many of the films, is the fact that there's a lot of boring story that you have to sit through. Another major problem is that this film seems to have been aimed at children because there's certainly no drama or tension in any of the action. There's certainly not too much going on and I have to wonder if even the kids would be entertained by this thing. I'm sure teenagers might have been interested in the beautiful ladies but that's about it.
Eaton is good in her role but sadly she just isn't given too much to do. Nader certainly doesn't add anything with his lifeless performance and it seems Avalon was only here to try and bring in whatever remaining fans he had at the time. Klaus Kinski appears towards the middle of the movie and gives it a boost but he's not enough to save the picture.
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