Directed by Don Siegel
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros.)
KGB agents masquerading as American citizens are brainwashed to respond to poetry by Robert Burns to become suicide bombers targeting military installations. Donald Pleasence is the renegade Soviet hardliner who is awakening them to carry out their long dormant commands. Charles Bronson is sent by Moscow to stop him, with some help by Lee Remick, an American double agent. The script by the normally reliable Sterling Silliphant and Peter Hyams stretches the limits of believability. Motivations by all the principle characters are never fleshed out, Bronson makes incredible leaps of logic and Remick is unconvincing as a killer nurse.
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