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It's not awful and it can extract 2 or 3 smiles.

But what a difference with the first two installments. The wit is lost. It's often boring and most jokes fall flat.

5 is a generous rating.

Not so funny than the two previous episodes, this OSS lacks humor (it was more childish, not so provocative as what you would expect from OSS), a better writing (some scenes just sound fake, or repetitive), and more rhythm (a few scenes feel like forever without adding anything to the story). The actors do their best though, Jean Dujardin is excellent as always.

I was expecting more after a lot of advertising on tv, press, online. Not worth the hype.

As always Hubert is very funny.

However if you except Jean Dujardin all the other characters are grotesque.

For the first time the country and the epoque are not really at the center of the story.

Here you are just following the mains characters in their adventure.

In short I would say it was fun to watch but no more...

Première sortie au ciné après 18 mois de Netflix/Prime vidéo : quelle déception !

Bedos n'est pas Hazanavicius, et encore moins Philippe de Broca.

Le Magnifique est une excellente parodie des films d'espionnage, avec un talentueux De Broca à la réalisation, et un formidable Belmondo à l'écran.

Bedos nous a servi un très mauvais film, avec tous les poncifs à la mode en 2020 : Dujardin joue un homme de 50 ans, blanc, noble, idiotissime, machiste, et impuissant.

Je suis parti au bout de 30 mn, malgré le prix du ticket.

Comme au restaurant : lorsqu'un plat est mauvais, il ne faut pas insister !

Good movie, very well acted. Good James Bond parody. It's a bit crazy but unfortunately not enough crazy. It could have been a perfect comedy but it seems that fear of sounding racist and sexist keeps screenwriters, dialogue writer and filmmaker from really taking over more crazy. And this fear is gone to last for years.

Low below par on this 3rd installment of the "parodisiac" OSS117. And for his mission on the African continent there was nothing "afrodisiac" either.

OSS 117 Alerte Rouge en Afrique Noire looked like a cheap version of the original episodes. Lack of characters, lack of situation, lack of places, depths, lack of good dialogues and more crucially lack of laughters from the spectators 'seats.

Despite the obvious will of making OSS 117 the object of its own conservative joke the whole movie is étriqué and only consists in the slashing of all what made the French espion an interesting character to laugh with. In this installment we don't even laugh with him, we pity him.

Kuddos to Jean Dujardin's amazing performance despite the curse the writers cast on his character. Dujardin filled the shoes the best he could. A pity he wasn't provided the play one of the rare French stars deserve instead of a costard mal taillé.

Turned out to be much better than expected. I was worried that the change of director would ruin it, and it definitely isn't on the same level as the others, but Nicolas Bedos was very faithful to the first two movies. My expectations about OSS 1001, the new agent, were subverted in a good way. Some very funny moments. If you liked the first two movies, you should definitely give it a watch.

I expected worse given the reviews I had read.

It's ok, but the script and writing simply aren't good. Mini OSS was obnoxious, poorly written character. The cast generally performs well, but there simply isn't much to go with. It's very linear, it's bland, there is no chemistry, some nice ideas but poorly utilized.

Some of the CGI is crap, but that wouldn't have saved the movie anyway.

Underwhelming overall.

I have to say upfront I am a huge fan of the 2 previous movies directed by Michel Hazanavicius, I was nervous for this one because I hold them in high regards, and director Hazanavicius was not coming back because "he didn't like the script".

I'm pleased to report the movie still succeed to make us laugh and entertain, Jean Dujardin is back in strong form. His comedic timing is always golden and his facial expressions haven't changed. The aesthetic was also a treat, like the 2 previous movies the set design, color palette and exotic locations makes it a beautiful film to look at. Maybe not as good as the other ones but still solid.

I would say that the story/plot is probably the weakest point of the film, it drags a bit with a 2-hour runtime and they try to introduce a new agent played by Pierre Niney that feels a bit forced and didn't really work for me, it was hit & miss (mostly miss) with this character. It feels like they didn't really knew how to end this movie, but it didn't really take away from my enjoyment of it.

This type of comedy can be tricky in today's politically correct day & age, but I thought they stayed true to Hubert and didn't held back. Now that he's going to Africa you can expect him to be maladroit... and he is. It never feels mean however, you can tell he's just an idiot who doesn't know better.

Overall even though it does feel inferior to Rio Ne Répond Plus and Caire Nid d'Espions, it's something I know I'm going to watch again for Jean Dujardin's star performance as Hubert. Bonisseur De La Bath.

Third installment of the OSS 117 saga; the first one took place in the late fifties an showed "the hero's perfect mastery of the muslim world "; the second one,a precise spoof on the "serious " OSS 117 of sixties eurospies,the likes of "furia à Bahia pour OSS 117" set Hubert against the exiled Nazis and showed his "perfect knowledge of WW2".

Then this one , set in a precise moment of French politics :1981, A few months and Giscard D'Estaing would disappear (President Bamba's royal present won't be lost on French people who lived through the seventies) .

The world has changed ; Hubert Bonnisseur de la Bath hasn't ;he's still a, condescending ,ignorant ,dumb , uneducated ,vain, and ,to crown it all ,homophobic macho .

Jean Dujardin is true to from ,and he's probably the best contemporary comic actor (like the great ones,he can also take dramatic parts);with a lesser talent, this could have turned in one of those crude feel good froggy comedies ;he escapes unharmed .

He gets good support from Pierre Ninney ,as OSS 1001 (because the Deuxième Bureau runs out of three-figure designations) ; this young arrogant pretty boy shows himself better than his elder -which is not hard to do-,and ,which makes the matters worse , a rival with women! (a thing that even Bond never ran into); not only Hubert botches his collaborator's job in a shameless way,but he makes him believe he's got the brains although he only mutters "yes yes " " I know that" "that's what I wanted to say" ;and when the young Turk realizes Hubert has led him up the garden path and says that he 's got all the time in the world, it's too late (to skim pebbles can be dangerous!)

Of course ,it's uneven ,and one wishes the feminist side (in spite of the unexpected twist) had been more exploited ,but the numerous gags (some puns may be lost on a non-French audience) :

-Hubert depicting the Africans, then improving his knowledge by reading Hergé 's "Tintin au Congo"!

-His condescension towards the servants ,the natives , an ironical put-down of politically correct people

• "The lion does not know my gun isn't loaded " ,my favorite line.

Given the chilly reviews it met with, we won't probably be granted a fourth installment and it's too bad ; it's not for highbrows , it's not food for thought ,but balderdash! Dujardin ,the only AA winner French actor -among four ,including three actresses-,is not chopped liver!

Several chuckles and gags, the result of which is one acceptable entry on spoof genre. It starts with French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (Jean Dujardin), also known by his codename OSS 117, escapes from Afghan captivity, he is already looking forward to more thrilling missions. Hubert Bonisseur is the French spy considered by his superiors to be the best in the business. Instead, he is assigned a desk job, and the assignments are probably over. This fun and charming spoof , set in 1981, OSS 117 (The Artist's Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin) is sent on a mission to Africa to help out a president under attack from rebels. OSS 117 does not need to be said twice. This way, he can show the world that he is still the best of them all. But then his younger colleague Serge disappears without a trace under the alias OSS 1001 while he is on an important mission in Africa. This is not easy, as a rebellion is brewing in the country with the aim of getting rid of President Koudjo Sangawe Bamba (Habib Dembélé). And France, which has good relations with the dictator, cannot sit idly by a violent rebellion. Along the way, he has to contend with the rise of feminism, computer technology and the Cold War, as well as the arrival of a younger rival, OSS 1001 (Pierre Niney). Secret agent OSS 117 foils rebels , beds local beauties, and brings peace as well as mayhem to Africa .. He's been sent on a mission , to look for a former agent who has been missing . His eventful mission takes him all across Africa accompanied by agent OSS 1001/Pierre Niney and taking on a lot of adventures, risks and double-crosses . The man is charming , and so is the young boy 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 revolutionary holdout and bedding local beauties. 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 .

A spoof on James Bond about OSS operative stunningly performed by Jean Dujardin. Comedy spy-thriller with Jean Dujardin as inept secret agent versus nasty high-ranking African Presidents and arms smugglers. Amusing moments along with embarrassing in this third 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 conspirators , quelling a fundamentalist rebellion and deal with an intrigue about weapon smuggling. 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 mysterious ring of rebels and gunrunners. 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. No secret agent has probably had more literary commissions than Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117. Its creator, Jean Bruce, wrote 88 novels at the time of his death, and his wife Josette wrote 143 further. When he retired, her daughter Martine and her husband François wrote another 23 books. Around 250 works between 1949 and 1992 is quite remarkable. The Agent also appeared early in cinema, with eight film adaptations appearing between 1956 and 1971. In this country, however, the name is more likely to be associated with the two OSS 117: The Spy Who Loved Himself films. (2006) and OSS 117: Himself is Enough (2009). However, unlike the originals or early adaptations, these were comedies that poked fun at the original spy stories and the like. This third entry goes on in similar style the previous ones, of course, the protagonist is aging, but that fits well with the concept. Even with the first films, he overestimated himself greatly, he didn't want to admit that he wasn't as good as he liked to see himself. If his strength is slowly declining during his last adventure, if he can no longer keep up, especially in physical activities, then this does not fit his self-image. A big part of the story is about how he confronts this discrepancy again and again. This is especially true in the scenes with his younger partner, Serge. Because he quickly realizes how little substance the inflated hero ultimately has about him.

This 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 two gorgeous women, Natacha Lindinger and Fatou N'Diaye. 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 .The actors seem to enjoy themselves immensely giving funny interpretations . Packing lively and atmospheric music by Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen and director Nicolas Bedos himself, as well as colorful cinematography by Laurent Tangy . Other films about this famous spy are the followings : "O. S. S. 117 Is Not Dead" with Ivan Desny ; "Panic en Bangkok" with Kerwin Mathews ; "OSS 117: Mission for a Killer" with Frederick Stafford ; "OSS 117 Double Agent" played by John Gavin and "Vendetta of espies" performed by Luc Merenda .

The Jean Dujardin trilogy is formed by: ¨OSS117, Cairo, nest of spies¨, the film was well penned and directed by Michel Hazanavicius that maintains the slapstick franchise; it's 1955 by time of dictator Nasser and the secret agent Hubert Bonisseur De la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 is ordered a dangerous investigation in Cairo , there he has to take his place at the head of a poultry firm . Hazanavicious also directed in similar style to the original film a sequel titled ¨OSS 117 Lost in Rio¨ with Jean Dujardin , Rudiger Vogler and Louise Monot . Director and actors , Dujardin and Berenice Bejo , will repeat in the successful and recent ¨The artist¨ including Golden Globes and Oscars . This also applies to this third part: ¨OSS 117: Greetings from Africa¨by Nicolas Bedos, which was surprisingly released twelve years later, but not much has changed. The flick will appeal to comedy buffs and Jean Dujardin fans . Rating: 5.5/10.

Not the best of the series but good fun all the same. I'd just like to point out that if you say Un Un Sept instead of Cent Dix Sept it sounds like Oh Oh Seven... is it meant to I wonder? I'm sure others have mentioned this in the reviews, I just haven't read them. Jean Dujardin is great in anything in my book. Versatile and a great screen presence. Lots of daft and rather immature nonsense here, but I would personally much rather watch a mediocre French film than most mainstream Hollywood movies. Give it a go.

Mon Dieu! He is back again! The parodic version of the French EuroSpy classic OSS 117 is entering its third round. OSS 117 (ACADEMY AWARD winner Jean DUJARDIN) is of course also getting on in years. Shortly before the seemingly impossible election of Francois Mitterrand as French President, the French super agent finds himself transferred to the office to do computer work. Younger agents like OSS 1001 "Nacht" (classic: CESAR AWARD winner Pierre NINEY) are now in demand. When complications arise in the heart of the African continent, OSS 117 has to get back to work...

Splendid! Even though director Michel HAZANAVICIUS (ACADEMY AWARD for THE ARTIST) is no longer on board, you can't stop laughing. The meeting between the two acting titans DUJARDIN and NINEY is simply too good. French colonialism and traditional machoism are getting rid of their fat. When DUJARDIN tries to tame wild lions in German, you should definitely see and HEAR it in the original version! The many quotes on films from the 1980s (I'll just say: CROCODILE DUNDEE) are also delicious. And when it comes to style and clothes, a bridge is easily made to the present day.

It's admirable how casually the French studio icon GAUMONT is able to bring one of their classics into modern times. CHAPEAU!!!

This movie should never have been done. It's woke nonsense. It's a "hate the French" movie. Almost everyone are morons and OSS himself is the pinnacle of stupidity. This movie is the death of the franchise.

The movie has very nice visuals. It is a true joy to look at and the overall atmosphere is also very good. The acting is very good as well. Even the soundtrack is pretty good for the film. The only downside, and it's a rather large one, is the quite boring storyline in this movie. It is watchable, but due to the bad overall story, just barely. It becomes a little slow paced eventually and with less action than expected.

In the end it is rather sad, as this movie could be so much more, if the storyline was better.

I still regard it higher than the Bond films of Daniel Craig. As in that era the Bond movies just became another high budget action movie without much character. Jean Dujardin has a perfect face for James Bond, this is also a large part why the OSS movies work pretty well. Good visuals and great casting to set the perfect "Bond" atmosphere, just as it was back in the days.

I thought this might be a decent film as big fan of Dejardin and original 2 brilliant 017 films.

Unfortunately the acting is still good but the script was unbearably bad and so devoid of any funny moments with cringy references that were borderline pathetic almost insulting like written by an amateur child.

It is a shame as apparently the script was so bad the original director did not participate which makes sense as this script needed a few rewrites or a new story. A shame since it was a cool premise and only highlight was the hot nemesis femme fatale and annoying 1001

3 stars for Dejardin.

I loved the two first films , back in 2006 and 2009. It took a long time before the third one of the franchise; Jean Dujardin seems to be the same and the overall structure and atmosphere too. I love his character, who is still the same, no matter the directing and overall story. He is the perfect, pure anti hero: idiot, mysoginist, racist, full of biases, uncultivated. This is precisely the purpose of this film, I repeat, forget the story itself. It is not the worst of the series and despite the fact that I don't like comedies, I prefer them compared to the sixties OSS 117 features, very "serious" ones, spy movies in the right fashion of those years, more or less 007 like movies. With the settings in Africa, this is of course the perfect location to instal the atmosphere of the franchise: lead character's racism, so obvious, and also the pretext to evoke the French politics since so many decades in Africa.

Overall this was a very fun movie and Jean Dujardin a hero of the French secret intelligence went to Africa to sort out a coup to protect Francis colonial interests.

There were some very funny moments when he was competing with a younger agent. If you were a millennial snowflake the tongue in cheek humour would still have ground your gears with the sexiest tuber the objectification the colonial attitudes to other nationalities but overall I liked the humour because it was so well done

For me this was no more than 5 out of 10 it was fun while I was watching it but it was instantly forgettable.

Now I could be referring to Bond and OSS117 or I could be referring to the new member of the OSS team (1001). Or maybe both of course. But let's be clear, this movie does not care if you are offended - something that I would like to believe the Bond movie would not agree with. They tried to let the character grow - for better or worse. And whether the viewers liked what they saw or they didn't.

OSS on the other hand - he remains ignorant, sexist and racist. And yet Jean Dujardin fills the role with such an amazing performance and charisma, you kind of feel for the guy. Even when he says the most horrible and cringe worthy things - and believe he says quite a lot of those. You will not find just a few reasons to be offended here.

Apart from immature jokes, there are some political jokes too though. The role of France as colonials, but also Politicians of the 80s and communism ... you may not feel that they did the best job in handling certain themes, but you at least might want to give the movie kudos for even tackling them ... and while it does not reach the heights of the first two movies (it's been 12 years already since Part 2 came out?), it still is more than a solid movie right here. Still haven't watched the older OSS movies ... gotta push them up my watch list.

... and it did.

Dujardin good as always, but a story that took out all the light-heartedness of the previous two movies.

It had good parts, great potential: The ageing OSS117 guides a promising member of the next generation. Funny was OSS117 working on the computing machinery of the early 1980es.

Funny also, the ageing OSS117 noticing his manliness fading away slowly. And his envy versus the next generation of spies. His special consignment. Lot of good spots in this movie.

Though all that can't turn around a dreary makeup of a story. I imagine the script-writers sweating for fear of actually being racist behind their type-writers, thereby messing up whatever potential there was.

Imagine an aging French James Bond in 1981 sent to Africa on a mission and told not to appear either racist or misogynistic. This is the resulting film. Very enjoyable, as long as you understand the underlying humour and political situation - and, of course, performed brilliantly by Oscar-winning Jean Dujardin. The negative reviewers seem to misunderstand the underlying story and the background with which the film-makers have brilliantly dealt. It is not as laugh-a-minute as the original two films, but this is an OSS117 who is several years older and trying to cope with his decline in functions. I actually prefer this film to the original two - it is more developed upon the changing life of the main character - and it is still funny too!

I believe you need to be born in the 60s to fully understand the mix of derision and nostalgia of this movie, surely the reason why most did not get it, considering the reviews.

The first half is better than the second, though.

With a very different tone from the two previous films, OSS 117 From Africa with Love is a much more subtle movie, with less bawdy jokes and more realistic situations but it still has its highly parodic tone. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath tries to evolve with time but fail to do so, thankfully for the audience. Dujardin's performance is still on par. For what the series loses in lewd humour, it gains a good amount of artful comedy.