Trabucco (Walter Matthau) is a paid hitman who is sent to a hotel to shoot a state witness (Fil Formicola) unknown to him, in the next room stays a suicidal man (Jack Lemmon) just dumped by his wife (Paula Prentiss) for a fony sex doctor (Klaus Kinski). Victor (Lemmon) attempts to kill himself unsuccessfully and the last thing Trabucco needs are the cops all around the hotel, so he decides to kill Victor himself. But first he wants to see if he can make his wife return to him, so he takes him to the sex clinic where his wife Celia resides in a love affair with Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot, a fony sex doctor who she went to uncover on the 60 minutes but fell in love with.
Again, just like in The Odd Couple 2 the scenes in the hotel with just Matthau and Lemmon are absolutely breathtakingly brilliant, but everything else is terrible. The sex clinic scenes has to be the most pathetic attempt at laughs in the Matthau/Lemmon comedy films and Klaus Kinski is just awful.
RATING: *** (3/5)
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