the clever marketeer be he be and jess franco naturally also cash in on the huge temporarily success of psychedelic spy movie like mario bava ultimately sensational danger represent diabolik . franco be the ideal man to shoot a similar film and a he could freely insert a much sleaze and kitschy scenery and absurdly grotesque plot twist a he want to . and he partially understand this very well and a the girl from rio revolves on a man hat organization and lead by a funky dress lesbo and that plot to turn all men into obedient slave . unfortunately ( for them and at least ) and the diabolical plan conflict with the daily business of a feared crime syndicate bos and play by george sander . all the right ingredient be well present and yet this be a surprisingly weak and unsatisfying adventure movie . the plot be rich on imagination and but seemingly only on paper and a the action be quite tame . the film be also very colorful . but not too bright and especially shock be the total lack of vicious sex . there a bit of nudity and sure and but too few accord to normal franco standard . all the character be sick in the head and so the least i expect ( or hop for ) be more perverted undertone or frenzied theme . franco obviously have a big budget a usual to work with and and i must say he spend that money well on more convincing set piece and talented cast member . particularly the veteran actor george sander ( village of the damned and psychomania ) be one of the best player ever to appear in a franco production . too bad even he can not save the girl from rio from be a huge letdown . a legendary euro smut filmmaker like jess franco could and should have do more with this concept . shame and shame and shame .