Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Leofwine_draca An unlikely cross between two of the hottest crime-fighters of the '60s – TV's Batman and cinema's James Bond – KRIMINAL is in fact a film based on a popular Italian comic strip. The twist is that our hero isn't a hero at all, instead a fully-fledged bad guy, a thief whose ideal pastime is to steal jewels and make tons of money from his criminal exploits. Along the way, there's time for plenty of romance a la Bond as Kriminal wanders around and takes advantage of a succession of beautiful women. It all sounds pretty good and, being made in the '60s, it's absolutely loaded with style in everything from the music to the fashions on display. But there's something detached and routine about this film that stopped me from enjoying it one bit.I'll admit that the genre of Italian spy movies left me somewhat cold. I didn't mind early Bond films – GOLDFINGER is a classic – but the slavish devotion of the countless rip-offs I found utterly boring. Now the Italian superhero movies of the late '60s – this was much more to my liking. Outlandish good guys like Argoman, Superargo and the Three Fantastic Supermen would bound around on screen and tackle waves of bad guys with knowing smirks and plenty of panache. I was hoping KRIMINAL would be like the latter films, but this is really a Bond-style movie masquerading as a superhero flick. It's an interesting precursor to Mario Bava's DANGER DIABOLIK but that's all.My biggest regret is that this film has virtually no action to recommend it – I can't remember our hero fist-fighting a single villain! He kills a few off but it's all very stately and routine. One of the biggest sells is that he dresses up in a cool skeleton outfit to commit his robberies, but even these admittedly fun scenes are few and far between (although the house climb is a highlight). Glenn Saxson is the Hungarian hero, and he's very Aryan and good-looking, but he's also without charisma and it doesn't help that his character is pretty vicious, unpleasant and self-motivated. Helga Line – who I ADORED in HORROR EXPRESS – plays a dual role and is fairly attractive in an icy way, while Ivano Staccioli is a suitably greasy villain-type. Best of all is Andrea Bosic, playing the Scotland Yard inspector hot on Kriminal's heels, who has an absolute ball in his comic relief supporting performance.The action shifts from London to Istanbul, with time for sightseeing on the way, but it's all very dated and routine. The film feels overlong and the ending is a damp squib – some nice train stunts but that's it. More action, less po-faced seriousness and KRIMINAL might have been good; as it is, the Turkish rip-off films featuring skeletal hero Kilink had the right idea purely because they were sillier. Umberto Lenzi is a fantastic cult director and he puts in good work here, but this is middling stuff. A sequel, THE MARK OF KRIMINAL, followed in 1968.

udar55 After escaping a hanging for stealing the British Royal Crown, mysterious super-thief Kriminal (Glenn Saxson) sets his sights on some jewels being taken from London to Istanbul. Everything goes smoothly until he subdues the courier (Helga Liné) and finds out her jewel box is empty. He figures out that the owners were looking to swindle the insurance company, so he heads to Turkey to blackmail them and also steal the real jewels if at all possible. Close on his heels is Inspector Milton (Andrea Bosic). Oh man, Umberto Lenzi adapting a popular Italian comic character who dresses like a skeleton? Filmed widescreen in England and Istanbul? This has to rock, right? Uh, no. While watching this I realized around the one hour mark that I'd heard a lot of talk about diamonds, but very little actual action. It isn't until the 70 minute mark that the plan goes into effect and is laughable at best, relying on a bank actually letting a guy enter their safe deposit box vault with his head wrapped in bandages. What I was hoping would be in the vein of DANGER: DIABOLIK (1968) ended up being more along the lines of very dry Bond knockoff. One problem is there is very little action that one would expect. A car chase? Hell, a foot chase? Nope. The Kriminal costume is very cool, but he only wears it three times throughout the movie and never during actual robberies, just when he likes to creep up on women. This is the film's other major problem as Kriminal is a pretty mean character, even for an anti-hero. I figure the filmmakers want you to root for him, but it is hard when he slaps women around and tries to blow up his ex-wife. Saxson is handsome as the lead, looking a bit like Richard Harrison. He returned in the sequel THE MASK OF KRIMINAL (1968) a couple of years later.

gridoon2018 One of several Italian "costumed super-criminal" outings made in the mid-1960s (for a brief period, I think it was the third most popular film genre, after spy movies and spaghetti Westerns), "Kriminal" has good production values but a rather bland look - there is nothing distinctive about it, except maybe the title character's skeleton costume, which he wears very briefly. Kriminal may be good with his fists, a master of disguise, and a clever criminal planner, but he doesn't have much charisma or personality, except maybe for an obnoxious arrogance. The women are pretty but dreadfully underused. The film gets dull more often than it should. ** out of 4.

jrd_73 Watchable entry in the super-criminal subgenre even if it is a far cry from Danger: Diabolik. This film begins with Kriminal escaping execution and quickly planning a diamond heist. Since the diamonds have already been stolen, Kriminal is essentially swindling criminals. This doesn't necessarily make him a good guy, what with trying to blow up his ex-wife who turned stool pigeon. Still, Kriminal has charm. . . and a nifty skeleton suit for nocturnal adventures. An all black suit might have been more practical for blending into the darkness but Kriminal is anything if stylish. The film itself could have used more style. Umberto Lenzi's direction is merely serviceable, lacking the thrills of some of the director's 70's crime movies. On the plus side, the film offers bright cinematography and appealing eye candy provided by Helga Line and Mary Arden (Blood and Black Lace).Kriminal is not a film that stays long in the memory but offers a pleasant enough lazy afternoon viewing.