Fantastic!

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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

Partial spoiler. Evidently Kilink grew out of those Italian photo novels, which I've never seen more than excerpts of, and I never saw this film till about ten days ago. Like the characters in those books (which are now being remade, evidently), he was evidently a colorful ruthless villain in the "Fantomas" tradition, but this film made him more of a ruthless colorful hero, so to speak. He comes between two rival gangs (both involved in spy plots too), and in between killing the men, he beds all of their female hangers-on, and doesn't hesitate to kill them too, usually in the same scene! Apart from being on FILM, it's really no more shocking than what you get from the hero in the "Destroyer" book series. The readers of that series always defend its originality, and I'm sure they're usually right, but now I wonder if its two writers ever saw this movie, with its tongue-in-cheek hero killing off mobsters and hot villainesses right and left. They might have gotten just a few pointers for the "Remo" character.

This picks right up where KILINK VS. THE FLYING MAN ends with Kilink dead after a fall off a building. But, as a narrator cautiously tells us, this is not the end of Kilink's story. Sure enough, he is alive a few minutes later and planning his next scheme. How did he survive? Well, we are never told. He just does because he is Kilink. So much for the efforts of the Flying Man in the first two films (he is nowhere to be seen in this one).This entry has Kilink getting involved in a war between two rival gangs over some microfilms that has pictures of Turkey's bases and missiles on it. I guess Kilink was getting pretty popular because they turn him into a semi-goodguy this go around, even having him enact revenge on behalf of a widowed wife (although he still kills ruthlessly, baby). This one plays like a EuroSpy film and is my favorite of the three. It has quite a bit more action than the first two with Kilink getting chased all around Istanbul. He also manages to seduce tons of ladies and pull that face switching gag about 50 times. This is the best looking print of the three KILINK films that Onar Films has released (apparantly off a Beta master). I hope they keep releasing more of these.

The first Kilink film (Kilink in Istanbul) is a fantastic thrill ride of action sex violence and silliness. When I saw it I sat there with my mouth open amazed at the "throw everything into it the mix" nature of the movie. There was no reason any of it should have worked, but it did in spades. I was so excited by the prospect of seeing another film in the series I picked up a copy of the third film even though it was sans subtitles.The plot of the film has Kilink, again back from the dead, playing off two bands of gangsters against each other. The police also join the battles once they realize that the super criminal is not as dead as they thought. There are shoot outs, fist fights and seductions in the typical Kilink style as our hero attempts to get whatever he's after this time (without subtitles it was hard to tell what it was). Its a Turkish version of Yojimbo or Fistful of Dollars.Kilink Strip and Kill is a disappointment, or is at least without subtitles. The problem is not that there isn't the over the top violence and behavior, there is, there's just less of it. The problem here is that the film has a good number of scenes with just dialog, where nothing but talk happens. I'm sure had I had a subtitled print this would have played better, but it didn't and I kept wanting to reach for the fast forward. I know that part of the problem is that since the film is also sans supernatural/superhero elements the film seems to be just another gangster film, but with a protagonist in a full skeleton costume. I liked the wild elements of the first film and was slightly disappointment that they weren't here to spice things up.If you've seen other Kilink films give this one a try, although try to hold out for one with proper subtitles. Its not bad, its just hard to follow with out them, hence my rating of six. I know that should I be able to find a subtitled print I will be very happy to try this again.

All women love Kilink - that's just a fact. Kilink plays two groups of rival gangsters against each other while trying to get ahold of some Macguffin ... ahem, microfilm. Meanwhile he romances all the ladies, kills half of them, and runs around a lot while the cops chase him. Plenty of silly goons, fun gadgets, sexy babes, and the super-cool Kilink, of course.This installment is not as wacked-out as Kilink Istanbul'da, which is faster paced and more supernaturally oriented. What Strip and Kill does offer is a more coherent plot, and much more of Kilink himself, in all his badness. Long live Kilink!