WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

StuOz The men from UNCLE are at it again.I am okay with the spy genre but I don't actually call myself a fan of spy movies/TV shows. I am indeed a fan of 1960s adventure shows (Batman, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, QM's The Invaders, etc) and this is why I am drawn to the UNCLE movies. I also like Robert Vaughn as Solo.The film is a very busy affair. The Karate Killers requires repeat viewings before it grows on you. I hated it the first couple of times I saw it but it grew on me the third time. I would not call it the best of the eight UNCLE movies but it is not he worst (the worst is One Of Our Spies Is Missing).He gets no credit, but 1966 Batman composer - Nelson Riddle - did some of the music in this film.

gerard-21 The only problem some reviewers seem to have is that this Uncle movie came from the dreaded season 3. But, if they put aside their bias, they would see it's actually a pretty entertaining, star-studded affair. Two guest stars (Telly Savalas and Curt Jurgens) would later go on to be featured villains in James Bond films. The femme fatale, Kim Darby would star with John Wayne in True Grit and the Pink Panther's Herbert Lom is perfect as the main protagonist. And with a special appearance by none other than Joan Crawford, what else is there to say? I don't see the episodes this movie was culled from as overly campy. Everyone seems to treat the plot seriously enough and there are plenty of moments of sex and violence (death of Crawford, for example) that would never make it into a Adam West Batman episode. The problem is, these days everyone wants spies to be like Jason Bourne or for the action to be as melodramatic and serious as an episode of 24. This is what is ruining the Bond franchise, imo; nobody has an appreciation for tongue-in-cheek espionage anymore.If you are willing to suspend reality and revisit the good old days of escapism, you will thoroughly enjoy this movie. It's an engaging fun affair that has our heroes trotting around the globe chasing after Hitchcockian MacGuffin ("the formula"), what else could one ask for?

Michael_Elliott The Karate Killers (1967) ** 1/2 (out of 4) A secret formula is stolen and broke off into four different parts so Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) must travel around the world and try to catch the evil man trying to get it. THE KARATE KILLERS is a feature-length version of a two-episode entry in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series. I should probably admit right from the start that I had never seen an episode of this show so I really can't say how well this movie is or how good the two episodes are and how they compare to other episodes in the series. For the most part I found myself having a pretty good time. I will admit that I found a lot of this to be rather campy and I'm not sure if this is just how it's aged or perhaps the series was always meant to be campy. Either way, there were a lot of fun moments scattered throughout the picture with some of the highlights including the opening sequence and another very good one where McCallum finds himself heading towards an ice breaker, which will certainly kill him. There are several sequences here that manage to capture that cliffhanger feeling that people saw in serials back in the day. Another thing that kept this film moving were the countless celebrity appearances including Joan Crawford, Herbert Lom, Leo G. Carroll, Telly Savalas and Kim Darby. Seeing all these stars pop up in small roles was nice. The two leads were also extremely good and fun. THE KARATE KILLERS, I don't think, was meant to be taken too serious so as long as you turn your brain off there's some fun to be had.

gridoon2018 Larger in scale and more ambitious in scope than the previous "Man From U.N.C.L.E" theatrical features, "The Karate Killers" is a colorful production, with a great cast (though many of the guest stars have little more than cameos), and packed with action that is constant, varied, and, in some cases (like the opening sequence or the one with the skis), can almost equal the James Bond films of the era. However, the globe-trotting, though ambitious, is not very convincing - least of all in the Japanese section. And the film contains a few too many scenes of women getting slapped for my taste; these do not sit too well with the general tone of the picture, and threaten to spoil the mood. **1/2 out of 4.