Thunderball

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Summary: OO7 is great
Review: When a NATO plane with two atomic bombs is captured by SPECTRE, OO7 is off to the Bahamas before SPECTRE fires the bombs at Miami if the Americans and English don't pay a huge sum.A 1965 Acaademy Award winner for Special Visual Effects,Thunderball has great underwater action.TomJones bolts out the theme song.

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: The action and acting carries this film.BUY IT!

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Summary: BREAKTHROUGH!
Review: All of Connery's movies prior to this were very good but Thunderball was the breakthrough film.It had the best action and a superb villain.

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Summary: Very good
Review: If you're lookin' for a great OO7 film, try Thunderball.It is better than all of Moore's movies but can't beat From Russia with Love or Goldfinger.

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Summary: Thunderball
Review: This was Connery's second best movie.Though it had better action, Goldfinger was better overall.

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Summary: Connery's best
Review: Though there is tight competition between From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, and Thunderball, as Sean Connery's best movie, Thunderball takes the cake on this one.The underwater scenes were well-filmed and the action was great.

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Summary: THUNDERBALL IS A WORTHY FOLLOW-UP TO GOLDFINGER
Review: After the phenomenal success of Goldfinger, odds were high that the next 007 mission would let most fans down. Director Terence Young again sits in the director's chair as he had done for the first two Bond flicks. Young's creative prowess is harnessed by underwater director Ricou Browning who shoots some of the most compelling underwater footage ever. This is no small task either, as most movies shot in or around water have been besieged by technical or logistical issues (Titanic, Waterworld, Jaws). The opening sequence conveys that Goldfinger, has indeed, paved the way for more outlandish gadgets and fights. The gadgets are back (watch Geiger counter, pocket-size airtank and more); the women are back (a cute trainer Patricia, a gorgeous assassin named Fiona and the sultry Domino) played by Molly Peters, Luciana Paluzzi and Claudine Auger, respectively; CIA agent Felix Leiter is back (now played by Rik Van Nutter); and back are popular Bond mainstays M, Q and Moneypenny. Bond's one-liners are delivered in macho Connery-style, like after spearing one of Largo's henchmen: "I think he got the point." Emilio Largo is a good villain, but doesn't quite elicit the type of emotion that Auric Goldfinger could; and certainly, Fiona is no Oddjob, although she's a lot better to look at. The action is excellent (check out chapters 31-32), but I think that maybe ten minutes of the film could have been cut. Special effects supervisor John Stears won an Academy Award for his work on Thunderball in 1965, but it is definitely dated when compared to today's digitized effects. The ending, for instance, will look too fake for younger fans spoiled by newer effects-laden productions. There is no question that Thunderball is more produced, polished, and generally, bigger than Goldfinger. But in this case, bigger is not necessarily better. However, Thunderball is a worthy successor to Goldfinger and marks the last really good Bond flick that Connery appears in. This is the first 007 movie (chronologically) to be remixed in 5.1 and it is decidedly superior to the three previously released mono offerings. The anamorphic widescreen (1.66:1 ratio) transfer doesn't seem as crisp or defined in Thunderball as it does in all previously released DVD's. All nitpicking aside, the movie does look pretty good and there are really no major faults that take away from the film content. Thunderball is chock-full of extras just like Goldfinger was. It's got another awesome motion menu that needs to be activated by pressing your remote's Enter button. Also included are 2 super commentary tracks, 2 documentaries, pics and much more.

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Summary: Thunderball
Review: This was Sean Connery's best film.It has several great action sequences such as the final underwater battle and when OO7 breaks into the Largo home.The girls, played by Lucianna Paluzzi and Claudine Augner, were some of the best in the series.Tom Jones bolted out the theme song Thunderball written by Don Black.Oddly, it was a song that almost didn't get written.The original song was going to be Thunderball when UA decided that the song should be called Mr.Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in honor of the nickname given to Bond in Japan and around the world.Leslie Bricusse wrote lyrics and it was recorded.At the last minute, however, the producers decided that the song should be called Thunderball.With Bricusse tied up on another project, Black wrote the lyrics.The song is Thunderball and the Mr.Kiss Kiss Bang Bang compositions highlight the score.Emilio Largo was a very good adversary for Bond played by Adolfo Celi.Rick Van Nutter was also one of the best Felix Leiters.I highly recommend this movie to anyone.

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Summary: the picture color looks faded!
Review: i agree with the critic from sweden, the color on this dvd looks faded out, everything else is great.

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Summary: Thunderball
Review: For the people who said Thunderball and You Only Live Twice were slow-moving,slap yourselves.They are not slow-moving.There are action sequences in between like when Bond breaks into the Largo home in Thunderball or the car chase in You Only Live Twice.Both these movies deserve five stars.And if you want other good Jmes Bond movies,check out Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spy who Loved Me, Octopussy, The Living Daylights or Goldenye.Avoid Diamonds are Forever, Moonraker, The Man with the Golden Gun, A View To a Kill, and License To Kill.