Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Dimension 5 (1966)

A rather flimsy 1960s spy film with some time travel nonsense tacked on.

A Chinese Communist faction are trying to smuggle a nuclear bomb into America and blow up LA. Justin Power (Jeffrey Hunter) is an agent of a secret US agency who is tasked with stopping them, he is helped by fellow agent Kitty (France Nuyen) and they begin a search for the head of the faction in the US, Big Budda (Harold Sakata). 

Assisting them with their endeavours is a time travel belt which can allow them to jump forward and backwards in time, though despite this apparently game changing technology Power and Kitty still end up having a fist fight with the bad guys in a fireworks warehouse...

This is what it is, a low budget and very campy spy romp. It has all the cliches of the genre and of course is helped out by Oddjob (Sakata) appearing - even if he is terribly dubbed and spends the film in a wheel chair (which rather negates his impressive physical presence). The film is not very good though is pretty watchable and enjoyable if approached in the right way as a 1960s piece of spy film cheese.