Count Massimo Contini (Nigel Green) is the mastermind behind a billion dollar gold robbery. His plan is to send the world markets into chaos. He may get away with it unless Matt Helm (Dean Martin) can track down the missing gold. But along the way, Helm will meet up the Count's hired muscle, a gorgeous female killer, and a ditsy woman who insists on helping him.

I suppose the best way to describe a Matt Helm film would be a light and breezy spoof of the James Bond movies. Nothing is very serious and you're sure that everything will work out in the end. Dean Martin plays Matt Helm about as laid back as could be imagined. Instead of a gun, you're more likely to see him with a drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other, a beautiful woman to ogle, and a quick quip. His fights scenes may leave a lot to be desired, but there's no denying his "cool".

The Wrecking Crew is actually one of the better Matt Helm films. The hiding place of the gold is ingenious, the spy gadgets are plentiful, and the women are everywhere. The cast is one of the better assembled for any of these films. Nigel Green and Elke Sommer make a wonderful pair as the distinguished master criminal and the sexy killer (roles very similar to the ones they played in 1966's Deadlier Than the Male). But Sharon Tate really shines as the ditsy Freya Carlson. It's incredibly sad to think that this would be Tate's last role before her brutal murder. She's a joy and a real pleasure to watch.

The movie is fantastic in its execution, not its substance, but it was never intended to be serious.

The movie has all the glamor, and opulence that only American movies seems to be able to deliver. The choice of color, the character, and of course the girls.

Dean Martin's Matt Helm was a product of the swinging '60s, and it's a beautiful movie in its own way. I wish that the modern movies had more of this kind of opulence to its style. Why not live a little like the way these people did ?

It's intentionally silly, but if you take away the silly it still has the glamor like nothing you see these days. The movie is worth seeing for this alone.

Elke Sommer, and Sharon Tate were beautiful, and we don't see beauties like this anymore either.

A train transporting $Billion in gold is hijacked by Count Massimo Contini's men. Linka Karensky (Elke Sommer) and Yu Rang are his loyal operatives. Matt Helm (Dean Martin) is task with finding the gold. Freya Carlson (Sharon Tate) presents herself as a bumbling tourism agent but is actually something more.

I really like the idea of Sharon Tate's character. At least, they stop the overuse of go-go dancing. There is a way to make a Matt Helm action thriller sexier than Bond with a bit of fun. This is dripping with sex. The plot loses drive somewhere in the middle and the movie stalls. I would have loved Martin to be forced to pair up with Tate earlier. They do have a fun chemistry together. It's funny that he keep shoving her head down during that shootout. This is slightly better than the third one if only for stopping the go-go dancathon. The franchise ends here and Tate would be killed a few months after this movie. The fantasy scenario would have Martin pairing up with Tate for a fifth installment.