OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Same review for both OSS 117 films. They are both brilliant farces featuring an idiot savant, culturally clueless, racially and sexually insensitive, French super spy back in the days in which France was still a significant world and colonial power. These films are filled with both laugh out loud and more subtle humor. They are the opposite of the crude and hilarious Spanish Torrente films, but just as highly recommended in their own way. The second film in the series is cruder and less subtle than the first, but it is still really good.

Comedy spy-thriller with Jean Dujardin as inept secret agent versus nasty high-ranking Nazi played by Rudiger Vogler . Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties , and brings peace to Rio De Janeiro . It's 1967 and the secret agent Hubert Bonisseur De la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 is ordered a dangerous investigation in Brazil to the strains of Bossa nova. Hubert Bonisseur is the French spy considered by his superiors to be the best in the business , this time his assistant is the charming Mossad agent who is also seeking the Nazi . He's been sent on a mission to Rio De Janeiro , to look for a former SS officer who went into exile in South America after WWII . His eventful mission takes him all across Brazil , from Rio to Brasilia and the Iguazu Falls , accompanied by a beautiful girl named Dolores Keulachov played by Louise Monot. The man is charming , and so is the young girl spy . Filmed on luxurious sets their tale is by turns an exciting intrigue and a love story . He acts as a playboy , this results to be his cover while he is busy investigating, foiling Nazi attacks and bedding local beauties . Hubert Bonisseur De la Bath, a French spy, is in Brasil to investigate the disappearance an ominous Nazi . He is he smart spy , or is he an imbecile ? He fights well but he's supremely smug and self-confident, even as he's deaf to cultural nuance and others' feelings , so the odds are even that he might survive .Funny moments along with embarrassing in this second entry about secret agent OSS 117 with a likable Jean Dujardin , role of the accidental spy who doesn't know fear or danger in this comedy spy-thriller . In this entertaining adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in French Secret Service must stop a group of international Nazis conspirators led by a previous SS officer before they cause global chaos on the world . Hubert Bonisseur, a French secret agent who dreams of rising beyond his menial job within the OSS organization, after all the other agents are bumped off is hired to discover a microfilm where appears names of collaborationists with Nazis . With one shot at redemption, he must employ all kind of means to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout an ambitious plot . Hubert must use every trick in his play-book to achieve his objectives . For Hugo Bonisseur, disaster may be an option, but failure never is. This second installment is an acceptable comedy though the formula is well known with 'The Pink Panther' series and recently with 'Johnnny English' by Rowan Atkinson . It stars clumsy Jean Dujardin as one man show accompanied by a gorgeous Louise Monot . The movie gets entertaining and hilarious moments here and there. This slapstick picture contains amusing , funny scenes , fresh and diverting moments but also flaws and gaps . Jean Dujardin steals the show parodying the ordinary international secret agent , James Bond-alike , including his ordinary faces , grimaces and gestures ; he plays stunningly the highly unorthodox agent, the inept and bungler secret agent from OSS .Appears as secondary the prestigious German actor Rudiger Vogler , Win Wenders's usual ; furthermore two French beauties as Louise Monot and Reem Kherici. The actors seem to enjoy themselves immensely giving funny interpretations . Lively and atmospheric music by Ludovic Bource. Colorful and glimmer cinematography by Schiffman . The film is well penned and directed by Michel Hazanavicius that maintains the slapstick franchise . He also directed in similar style the original film titled ¨OSS 117 El Cairo¨ with Jean Dujarjin and Beatriz Bejo ; both of then will repeat in the successful and recent ¨The artist¨ including Golden Globe nomination . Several chuckles and gags , the result of which is one acceptable second entry . The flick will appeal to comedy fans .

Although I was pleasantly surprised by the previous OSS movie ; this sequel is just terrible. The story lacks rhythm and logic. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath in the first movie was a caricature of the conservative Frenchman of the 50s : racist, sexist, arrogant... However, these traits were not emphasize so much as in the sequel and he had charisma.In Rio ne répond plus, he is just a one dimensional obnoxious a**hole. The other characters are simply useless (especially Dolores ; I cannot even blame the actress for her performance, as the character lacks personality). As for humor, I did laugh a few times, but not as much as I was hoping. French cinema at its worth.

All the humor that you find in this film is sarcastic and with always the same objective: To make the agent look stupid, his ( multiple ) enemies look stupid, his U.S. mate look stupid, his boss and colleagues look stupid. The only people who are normal, wise, and even clever are agents from the Jewish mossad... I call this film a lame and heavy propaganda for the Jewish community against all the other communities. I know anti-semitic movies exists, now you've the exact opposition: anti-goy films !!! Besides the humor is really dumb and for 14 years old children's, and mocks all the values of the french people, even when you attempt to make humor, you've got to have some respect. The dumb people who wrote this movie should be ashamed of themselves.Ps. The first film was good, this one really sucks !