It's tough to dislike a Bond film, especially one starring Sean Connery. And as disjointed and scattershot as the plot of this one is, I still like it.
It's goofy and feels patched together, but more than anything, it tries much too hard to be funny. Sometimes it works but it really cheapens the adventure. This movie more than any other Bond entry, had me screaming at the bad guy to "just shoot Bond already!!!". The villains go to great lengths to let Bond wriggle out of jam after jam.
I had to laugh at some of the effects. The explosions during the movie's climax look awful. I also laughed at a scene where security officers in old Ford LTDs chase Bond, who has hijacked some kind of moon rover-style vehicle. Bond leads them on a chase through the Nevada desert and car after car succumbs to the rough desert terrain. Bond's rover clearly loses a tire during one shot. The rover tire bounces across the screen but we flip back to Bond and he's still cruising along in the thing! A little editing would have been nice.
I also thought there were way too many people standing on the sidewalks watching Bond rip through the Las Vegas streets in a shiny red Mustang. If I didn't know better, I'd think that everyone in the casinos were told that a movie chase was being filmed on the streets outside. It's really obvious and totally distracts from the car chase. It smells like "Cannonball Run" to me.
Jill St. John prances around with next to nothing on which suits a Bond flick just fine, but she's an airhead and Bond girls are usually smart. But at second glance there' s a surplus of questionable casting here. Jimmy Dean as Williard Whyte and Norman Burton as Felix Leiter are truly awful in their roles. And Charles Gray's turn as big baddie Blofeld is ho-hum.
Still, when you add up the good and subtract the bad, the balance sheet is still is in the black and it's because of Ken Adam's fantastic sets and of course, Connery's magnetism and charm.
Review by whitsbrainVIP 5BlockedParent2022-01-15T16:38:24Z
It's tough to dislike a Bond film, especially one starring Sean Connery. And as disjointed and scattershot as the plot of this one is, I still like it.
It's goofy and feels patched together, but more than anything, it tries much too hard to be funny. Sometimes it works but it really cheapens the adventure. This movie more than any other Bond entry, had me screaming at the bad guy to "just shoot Bond already!!!". The villains go to great lengths to let Bond wriggle out of jam after jam.
I had to laugh at some of the effects. The explosions during the movie's climax look awful. I also laughed at a scene where security officers in old Ford LTDs chase Bond, who has hijacked some kind of moon rover-style vehicle. Bond leads them on a chase through the Nevada desert and car after car succumbs to the rough desert terrain. Bond's rover clearly loses a tire during one shot. The rover tire bounces across the screen but we flip back to Bond and he's still cruising along in the thing! A little editing would have been nice.
I also thought there were way too many people standing on the sidewalks watching Bond rip through the Las Vegas streets in a shiny red Mustang. If I didn't know better, I'd think that everyone in the casinos were told that a movie chase was being filmed on the streets outside. It's really obvious and totally distracts from the car chase. It smells like "Cannonball Run" to me.
Jill St. John prances around with next to nothing on which suits a Bond flick just fine, but she's an airhead and Bond girls are usually smart. But at second glance there' s a surplus of questionable casting here. Jimmy Dean as Williard Whyte and Norman Burton as Felix Leiter are truly awful in their roles. And Charles Gray's turn as big baddie Blofeld is ho-hum.
Still, when you add up the good and subtract the bad, the balance sheet is still is in the black and it's because of Ken Adam's fantastic sets and of course, Connery's magnetism and charm.