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Thunderball |
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Thunderball  Rating: Rating:  - THUNDERBALL = Best Bond MovieThis movie is Awesome. The story is the best and score is fantastic. Sean Connery gives one of his best performances as James Bond along with everyone else in the film. This is truly one of my favourite movies ever and I've only become a mega fan this past year. Make your life better and get this along with every other James Bond film! Rating:  - borderline classic, borderline franchise popcornthis is the pivotal bond film because it has enough of the same qualitites that rank it nearly alongside dr no, from russia with love and goldfinger. but, it also has enough hints of the rot that is you only live twice and diamonds are forever that follows. the first three bond films can actually be considered good films period and not necessarily 'franchise films'. thunderball truly is the beginning of the franchise that will become furmulaic popcorn with the next one and that was too bad, and connery, wisely, knew this himself. Rating: - Bond at his best!Sean Connery hit full stride in Thunderball, far and away the most appealing episode in the legendary Bond series. The action focuses principally in the Carribean, giving this movie one of the most exotic feels from the series. Claudine Auger is positively stunning as Domino, quite possibly the most fetching Bond woman of them all. The action is brisk but not forced. Connery never loses stride. The underwater scenes are very realistic as Largo has a fighter jet hijacked and sunk in a nearby reef, keeping the missiles for later use. While all Bond films exist in the realm of fantasy, this one stayed relatively close to home and has a much more visceral than the others. The locations, settings and silver Aston Martin all capture the feel of the mid 60's. This is James Bond at his best! Rating: - Heat and Cold applied scientifically - and slowly!The 4th James Bond movie. Several of the most intense and most challenging productions in film history involved filming on or under water, as demonstrated from such later films as JAWS, THE ABYSS, TITANIC, and many others. THUNDERBALL goes way beyond all of that with its' magnificent underwater gadgetry, innovative use of camera techniques, and beautifully choreographed action sequences. This is a characteristic example of just one James Bond film that set the stage for later classic themes to follow. Perhaps never to be perfected since that time. There is, of course, the obligatory element of beautiful women with Claudine Auger as slinky Domino, and Molly Peters as randy nurse Patricia. THE ASSIGNMENT: Despite many recent crime excursions, SPECTRE is going broke, and SPECTRE #2 Emilio Largo has a solution: hijacking a Vulcan bomber while on a NATO exercise by substituting for the real pilot a SPECTRE agent who has undergone plastic surgery. The Vulcan is equipped with two atomic bombs, and they plan to use them against the British as a ransom for 100 million pounds of uncut diamonds against the threat of detonating the bombs in one of the major cities of the Western world. If the British accept, they are to arrange for Big Ben to strike seven times. Having been given two days to decide, every double-O agent is brought together to confer to avoid this from happening. Bond has only one lead; unknown to SPECTRE he was undergoing physical treatment and had encountered the agent undergoing surgery while there. Bond begins investigation in Nassau - and the excitement begins. THE VILLAINS: Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo, Guy Doleman as Count Lippe, Paul Stassino as Maj. Derval (and Angelo Palazzi), Luciana Paluzzi as female assassin Fiona Volpe, George Pravda as scientist Ladislav Kutze, Philip Locke as silent killer Vargas, and Michael Brennan as sadistic Janni. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! BUY IT! |
