Synopsis
The evil Gen. Rancor has his sights set on world domination, and only one man can stop him: Dick Steele, also known as Agent WD-40. Rancor needs to obtain a computer circuit for the missile that he is planning to fire, so Steele teams up with Veronique Ukrinsky, a KGB agent whose father designed the chip. Together they try to locate the evil mastermind's headquarters, where Veronique's father and several other hostages are being held.
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Cast
- Leslie NielsenDick Steele
- Nicollette SheridanVeronique Ukrinsky
- Charles DurningThe Director
- Marcia Gay HardenMiss Cheevus
- Barry BostwickNorman Coleman
- Andy GriffithGeneral Rancor
- Stephanie RomanovVictoria / Barbara Dahl
- Talisa SotoDesiree More
- Robert GuillaumeAgent Steve Bishop
- Carl CiarfalioThug #1
Recommendations
- 50
Christian Science Monitor
Most of the laughs come near the beginning, before Rick Friedberg's klutzy directing becomes annoyingly monotonous. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
This movie may not be brilliant, but every now and then it's really funny. - 50
The New York Times
Instead of building sustained comic set pieces, it takes a machine-gun approach to humor. Without looking at where it's aiming, it opens fire and sprays comic bullets in all directions, trusting that a few will hit the bull's-eye. A few do, but many more don't. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
I'm happy to report, though, that even a dud like Spy Hard can't completely douse the stumbling Zen charm of Leslie Nielsen, whose genius is that he never quite sheds the illusion that he isn't in on the joke. - 40
Empire
Sporadically funny, but never more than a sting of crude gags. - 38
ReelViews
Director Rick Friedberg (who made the "bad golf" videos with Leslie Nielsen) has crafted a dreadfully unfunny comedy that takes Naked Gun-like sketches and rehashes them without a whit of style or energy. - 38
TV Guide Magazine
Nielsen's schtick is getting pretty threadbare by now -- his movies used to wring laughs from assaults on his silver-haired dignity, but after years of screen buffoonery, he has no dignity left to assault. - 20
Los Angeles Times
It could have used several more passes on the screenplay to strengthen the gags and flesh out the characters.
