InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Aneesa Wardle
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Juana
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
gavin6942
James Bond (Sean Connery) heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.Of all the James Bond films, this one has one of the less-notable Bond girls. After passing on Julie Christie and Raquel Welch, we end up with Claudine Auger as Dominique "Domino" Derval. The character of Domino is interesting, but Auger is hardly well known. (Though fans of Italian horror may recognize her for Mario Bava's "Twitch of the Death Nerve".) Sean Connery is the definitive Bond, and this film shows us why. He is smooth and chats up the ladies in ways that no other Bond has. Sorry, Roger Moore. But it is the case.
Hitchcoc
I stole my title from another reviewer. I braved a harsh winter night in downtown Minneapolis to see this movie. We were all Bond fans in those days. We had seen the previous three movies and were thrilled that a fourth was on its way. Unfortunately, after Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger, we wanted something that would top all of them. It doesn't work. There is something missing here, a kind of spark that even the great Sean Connery can't provide. This all takes place in underwater settings and I have found that this creates a weakness. Of course, there is a Bond girl and a serious villain, but that's where it all stops.
LeonLouisRicci
The Fourth Film in the Series did Control Itself, for the most part, but Not Completely. Trying to Top "Goldfinger" (1964) the Producers go Over-the-Top for the First Time. Not Way Over-the-Top, but OTT nonetheless. The Opening with the Jetpack and the End with the most Elaborate Underwater Sequence ever Filmed (maybe even to this day), some have said that it goes On for too Long, but Not Really.The Movie only goes OTT in "Splashes" and does not Change the Tone of the Series up to that point, much, but it is there as a Harbinger of Things to Come.The Bond Girls are Appropriately Beautiful and Deadly. The "Tom Jones" Song behind the Signature Credit Sequence is Bombastic and one of the Best. Sean Connery has Hit His Stride and was Riding the Wave of the Series Super-Success and Still Commands the Role.Spectre is Involved and Bond Sees the Octopus Ring Proudly Displayed throughout. It's a Glorious Looking Film and was a High Box Office Topper. Not Considered the Best Bond on most Lists, but it is almost Always Ranked in the Top Ten.The Violence, at times, Shows Signs of the "New Hollywood" Style that would become Full Blown after the Code Completely Broke Down, and if You ever Wondered where the Action Hero's got the Idea to End a Killing with a "One Liner" look at James Bond, because He is the Instigator.The Series itself Instigated Many Things that would become Movie Clichés over the Years, and not just in the Bond Films. It also Remains the Longest Running Continuous Film Franchise in History. His Antics with the Bond Girls may be Antiquated but it is Fun to Dust Off Antiques now and then to See History Revealed.
Filipe Neto
Directed by Terence Young, produced by Kevin McClory, Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli and with a screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins, this is the fourth film in the franchise 007. In this film, the franchise reaches the maturity after the consecration with "Goldfinger". The participation of McClory seems strange but, in fact, it's the result of a legal conflict, prior to the production.In this film, the British secret agent is admitted to a nursing home when he finds out, by sheer luck, a conspiracy to rob a French jet with two nuclear bombs. Not having been able to prevent it, Bond is sent to the Bahamas in order to contact the sister of the late pilot of the missing plane and obtain more information. It turns out that the girl is also the lover of Emilio Largo, the responsible for the disappearance. Bond escapes all assassination attempts and find the missing plane, as well as the enemy's plans and his connection to the terrorist organization SPECTRE, the same that Bond had already been fighting since the previous films.In this film, Sean Connery got a perfect interpretation of his James Bond. Rude, a little hard with the opposite sex but always seductive, he marked for decades the idea of the public on how Bond should be. In addition to the idyllic scenery of the Caribbean, the film brings us some curious machines, continuing a tradition which was closely associated to the 007 imaginary. It is the case of the jet-bag used in the opening scenes, the armored-boat used by the villain in the final chase or the respiratory device used by Bond in some of the underwater scenes that made this movie famous. However, in my opinion, one of the reasons why this movie has reached excellence is the relevance of its central subject, a subject that, at that time, was very present in society: the danger of a nuclear attack. We must have in mind that the missile crisis in Cuba happened a few years before the film was released and the whole society, both in the US and in Europe, lived under the imminent danger of a missile war.James Bond and the characters M, Q and Monneypenny were embodied by the same actors from the previous films. To these artists joined Claudine Auger (in the role of bond-turned, Domino), Luciana Paluzzi (in the role of assassin Fiona Volpe) and Adolfo Celi (in the role of villain, Largo).
