Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS***Stink bomb of a movie with actor Sean Connery as handsome and dashing but not too bright Saudi Arabian diplomat Khaial Abual-Muhsen or just KAM for short stirring up a hornet nest in suggesting that the Arab World make peace with its eternal enemy the Jewish State of Israel in order to bring both peace and prosperity to the explosive and volatile Middle-East. KAM is not only attacked by his fellow Arabs but the Jews and Israelis as well for either being nuts or a traitor or both in that no one-Jew or Arab-believes for a moment what the heck he's talking about;or that he may have just lost his mind in him staying out, without a hat or head dress, in the hot Arabian sun for too long. This all sets off a number of political assassination by Arab extremists of Arab diplomats who go along with KAH's plan and makes him a prime target of not only his fellow Arabs but the Israiles who feel he's really trying to have Israel drop its guard by believing him and setting itself up for another Yom Kipper like sneak attack that he's really planning for.In fact there's an attack on KAH while vacationing in the Bahamas by what looks like Arab or Palestine terrorist as he's frisking around in bed with his girlfriend Nicole Scott, Cornelia Sharpe. It was Nicole who feel in love with KAH when she heard him give a spellbinding speech about peace in the Middle-East to a barley awake assembly of UN diplomats.It's the gun toting Nicole who ends up saving his life by blowing away one of the terrorists who was just about to blow him away in the attack in the Bahamas!***SPOILERS*** It's back in NYC that a major assassination attempt is made on KAH that backfired during a both major anti Arab and anti Israeli demonstration that ends up killing 15 people with KAH by sneaking out the back of the Saudi Arabian embassy again escaping death. It's later that KAH's luck finally runs out with his girlfriend Nicole Scott who's actually working for the PLO-Palestine Liberation Organization-after shooting her partner, the limousine driver, who was about to rub out a stunned KAH then turns the gun on him after telling the big jerk, who should have known better, what beautiful brown eyes he has!

gridoon2018 Most of "The Next Man" consists of small talk between Sean Connery and Cornelia Sharpe, or big speeches given by Connery at the U.N. building, interspersed with a few random scenes of violence. This political thriller is mostly drab and disjointed, but it gets some extra points for its typically 1970s bleak and pessimistic ending. Sean Connery is miscast but still retains some of his charisma; Cornelia Sharpe has sharp (pun intended) features - she's not exactly beautiful, but she is striking. One of Connery's least-known and seen films, good luck finding a decent copy to watch, as my DVD version (and apparently all others) are of bargain-basement quality. **1/2 out of 4.

John Smith I came across this movie very late one night recently and as it was a Connery movie with which I was not familiar I decided to stay with it. Big mistake. It appears to have ideas way above its station and the plot boils down to being about both Political and Corporate interests combining to ensure that Connery's character's peace plan for the Middle East fails. To ensure this a top female assassin (Sharpe) is hired to liquidate Connery. However, such is the clunky nature of the plot, in one scene she actually saves his life when she has ample opportunity to kill him. Given that this is a mid 70s "serious political movie" a downbeat ending is compulsory and this is ensured when Sharpe kills Connery at the movie's climax.I'm guessing any feminists watching this movie appreciated the irony of James Bond being murdered by a beautiful woman.

rekiwi I found "The Arab Conspiracy" in a bargain bin and thought I'd uncovered a lost treasure. Folks, there's a reason why you don't hear much about this film. The plot is muddy, the pacing is slow, Cornelia Sharpe is about as vivacious as plain, cold tofu, and the ending leaves you flat. Not even Sean Connery can save this one.