Michael Caine will star in any film that pays irrespective of its merit, I think we'd all accept that. But do we have to watch? Ashanti is a by-numbers chase movie set in Africa and with a number of big name cameo parts. The director (Richard Fleischer) had long since proved that he can handle 'big' movies with big names- especially with 'The Vikings'- but he must've been too busy applying sun-tan lotion to notice that the highly-paid stars he'd flown in at great expense (Omar Sharif, William Holden, Rex Harrison, Peter Ustinov) were barely doing more than reciting the banal script. The lowest-point came with the once-great Holden mentioning casually to Caine (after being shot whilst in control of a helicopter because Caine didn't fire first) that he should jump before they crash and Caine responding by looking out of the window with a bare modicum of interest.
He jumped eventually and survived. What a shame. The film could have been over in half an hour. Nothing redeems this film. Nothing. 0/10.
