Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

mark.waltz With a gap of one film, Sean Connery returned to the role of James Bond for the last time (as part of the official series), and what he gets is certainly action packed, thrilling and completely entertaining, but seems to be minus the spark and the likability. He's on the case of a diamond smuggling ring run by another white cat carrying villain (Charles Gray) where there's more to the story than just diamonds. Along the way, Bond goes through a crematorium, car chases in Las Vegas and takes on two tough kicking women's gymnasts. Then, his encounters with Gray appear confusing thanks to the multiple lookalikes he has, several meeting some fascinating if gruesome demises.Gray in drag makes Gene Hackman in "The Bird Cage" look like Marilyn Monroe, but fortunately that's just a quick blur. I wasn't crazy about the Bond girls in this entry, with an obnoxious characterization by Jill St. John and an unmemorable performance by Lana Wood. The two fast moving gymnasts may be challenging partners for Connery but I really wanted to see them get more than they ended up getting. Gray does make a fascinating bad guy, and there are some moments where you may be biting your knuckles may be sore from biting them. But many of the twists and situations are weak and unconvincing, and that makes this less likable. Still, there's another Shirley Bassey song to get the action started, indeed one of the best themes.

Filipe Neto Directed by Guy Hamilton, produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli and with screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz, this is the seventh film in 007 franchise and resumes the participation of Sean Connery in the role of the British agent for the last time. This movie will attempt to Americanize the character, an option that, for today's fans, was highly incorrect, despite the success at the box office.In this film, James Bond seeks revenge on Blofeld, who blames the death of his wife, Tracy Bond. At the same time, he investigates the disappearance of diamonds in South Africa, suspecting trafficking. During investigations in Amsterdam, Bond found suspected links with the United States, where the stolen diamonds are sent. Narrowly escapes death in a crematorium and continues to follow the clues to Las Vegas, where he will face again Blofeld, the mastermind behind the theft of diamonds, with which it plans to build a space satellite that destroy entire cities.Although Sean Connery returned to the role of 007, the film's producers know they will not be forever. On the other hand, the pressure for adapting the character to a new audience increases with the entry in the seventies. Although the plot is almost entirely passed in the United States, the film has almost no action scenes, on the contrary: some particular scenes are perfectly anecdotal, in a humorous style that did not benefit the film. On the other hand, it appears to interpret the character Connery no motivation and no concern that shown in previous films into thinking it would have been better to the paper, once and for all, to another actor. The theme of space conquest, which was fashionable during this time, it could also have been better used, as would be in future films.In this film, apart from central casting inherited from previous films, James Bond is incarnated by Sean Connery. Jill St. John gave life to the bond-girl Tiffany Case. Charles Gray played the villain, Blofeld. Putter Smith and Bruce Glover gave life to the double murder, and apparently homosexual, Mr. Kid and Mr. Wint.

Coventry I wrote it before and I'll write it again, even the more lackluster James Bond movies are still definitely worth checking out! When the overall plot isn't particularly great or perhaps too far-fetched, like for example the case in "Diamonds are Forever", there are still various other reasons that make any particular 007 installment must- see material! Apart from the wonderful fact that Sean Connery returned one final time to play cinema's most legendary secret agent – officially at least – there are plenty of other fantastic elements in "Diamonds are Forever". The proficient Las Vegas filming locations, for starters, but even more so the uniquely tense & original sequences at the mortuary and a handful of truly offbeat but marvelous supportive characters; most notably a couple of queer but nefarious homosexuals killers, a strong female lead and a sexy duo of bikini-bodyguards named after cute Disney animals. And, come to think of it, the actual plot is more than thrilling and competent enough as well, it's just too bad about that clumsy and almost ridicule climax. After finally having settled an old score with his nemesis Blofeld, 007 is assigned to unravel a diamond smuggling network that stretches itself from South Africa over Holland and all the way to fabulous Las Vegas! Bond takes over the identity of a notorious runner after killing him and travels to the USA with the sexy female crook Tiffany Case. In Vegas, Bond gradually discovers that the contraband-diamonds serve a very peculiar purpose and that the recluse tycoon high up in his Vegas hotel is perhaps not that unknown… The plot derails entirely in the last half hour, but at least until then "Diamonds are Forever" has been a very exhilarating and cool 007-adventure. It's particularly entertaining to witness how Bond's opponents insist to try and annihilate him via bizarre and convoluted tricks… If they would just shoot a few bullets in head from close range, the franchise would have been finished since "Dr. No" already! I also don't want to blindly follow popular opinions, but Sean Connery truly is and forever will remain the greatest James Bond. He provides the character with a kind of self- parody that none of the other protagonists ever could accomplish. In this film, Connery also receives excellent support from a handful of multi-talented fellow cast members, like the stunningly beautiful ladies Jill St. John and Lana Wood (although the latter's role is sadly underdeveloped) and eccentric sidekick villains Putter Smith and Bruce Glover as the frolic duo Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint. Even though I'm a big admirer of Charles Gray, he is most definitely a much weaker Blofeld than both Donald Pleasance and Telly Savalas. Horror and cult fanatics will also recognize the fantastic Sid Haig ("Spider Baby", "House of 1.000 Corpses") in a small but memorable role as mortuary attendant.

Troy Schulz Sean Connery should have quit while he was on top. After You Only Live Twice, he should have stuck to his guns and not returned to the role, let other actors handle. But alas, here we are. What should have been a dark revenge tale of Bond seeking vengeance on the man who killed his wife becomes a campy, painfully average romp through a single casino and car chases that are more at home in an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard. The plot follows Bond (played for the last time in the official series by Sean Connery) killing and impersonating a diamond smuggler (Joe Armstrong) in order to track the flow of stolen diamonds alongside a fellow smuggler (Jill St. John) who remains unaware of his true identity. The flow leads him from Amsterdam to the Whyte House casino in Las Vegas, home to an eccentric billionaire (Jimmy Dean, the sausage guy) who hasn't left his penthouse in years (gee, I wonder if this is in anyway a reference to Howard Hughes, oh well, probably not) and eventually, his old nemesis (Charles Gray). Mediocre optical effects and bad puns abound. A disappointing finale indeed.