Sunday 22 January 2012

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Year:1965
Country of origin:UK
Director:Terence Young
Genre:Bond
Starring:Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi
Rating:2/5
IMDB link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059800/
Tagline:Look Out! Here Comes The Biggest Bond Of All!
Favourite line:None worth mentioning

One of my least favourites, although many consider this a fine Bond movie.

Connery is staying at a health resort, undercover, spying on a suspicious individual believed to be part of SPECTRE. Indeed he is, and Bond's activities lead him to uncover a plot to detonate nuclear warheads both in Britain and America, stolen from a bomber that SPECTRE has been holding to ransom.

It's ok, I suppose, but the movie is killed by the underwater sequences. It was a bold move to attempt it, but they are paralysingly slow. I understand that this was an attempt at realism, but Jesus Christ it's dull.
Not one of my favourites.

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