Usually in spy thrillers you have the good guys, the bad guys and the double agents, in "Dead Run" you have the good guys, the bad guys, the good double agents, the bad double agents, the other bad guys, and the not-so-innocent-but-deep-down-inside-good guys (and girls) who get caught in the middle. The structure is a bit more complicated than usual, and as it keeps switching between the two main couples (Peter Lawford - Ira Von Fürstenberg / George Geret - Maria Grazia Buccella), it's quite unclear which one are the "official" leads. Of course the top secret documents that everybody is after are a total McGuffin - we never really find out what they say or what makes them so important. As Lawford explains near the start, this is not the kind of spy film that features watches which shoot bullets, but it's not dead serious, either - there is some humor too, mostly coming from Von Fürstenberg. There are some strange camera angles, a couple of intense fight scenes, a lot of European locations (Berlin, Paris, Vienna), and an assassin with a special quirk - just before the kill, he puts on his glasses. Worth getting for fans of the genre. **1/2 out of 4.
Review of Dead Run
