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Summary: Ian Fleming at his best
Review: Flemings descriptions of Blofields "Garden of death" are one of the best word imaging is ever read. I felt like i was there. The tenseness of Bonds hiding and waiting his chance to enter the Castle are superb.
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Summary: You Only Live Twice, or do you?
Review: Synopsis(novel): After the murder of his wife, James Bond suffers a breakdown and becomes a security risk. Giving him one final chance, M sends him on a vital diplomatic assignment to the Japanese Secret Service. There, he must go to impossible lengths to complete his mission. Synopsis(movie): American and Russian shuttles are being hijacked in space by an unknown group. Both countries suspect the other of sabotage. Behind it all is SPECTRE, being paid by another foreign power to cause a war.
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Summary: "You only live twice Mr. Bond."
Review: You Only Live Twice the first film in the 007 series to radically
depart from its source novel. Fleimng`s original novel is a brooding affair exploring the aftermath of Tracy`s death in the previous novel "On Her Majesty`s Secret Service". But this hadn`t happened in the chronolgy of the films, so it was necessary to jettison most of the plot for You Only Live Twice. The film only retained various characters and settings (Tiger, Dikko Henderson, Kissy, and Blofeld)and Bond going undercover as a Japanese fisherman, and his marriage to Kissy. Now in my opinion this is an awesome 007 movie, one of the BEST!
It has everything you`d want from a Bond film, but the only thing that confuses me is that in the novels OHMSS takes place before this, so why didn`t they make OHMSS first?
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Summary: "I look forward to personally exterminating you, Mr. Bond."
Review: James Bond proves yet again that when he's on his second life the screen is set for non-stop thrills and excitement! Sean Connery sets up another thriller that takes him to the exotic locales of Japan. Ernst Stavro Blofeld of SPECTRE is confusing USA and Russia by capturing each of there space shuttles and setting the screen for WWIII. There are 2 Bond girls this time, Aki and Kissy Suzuki both with the charm and sophistacation that will help 007 on his final volcano lair adventure. Nancy Sinatra
soothes the screen with her wonderful song of melody and Japanese flavor. This movie is full of action, adventure and non-stop thrills!!!
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Summary: Not perfect, but awfully close.
Review: The 007 series DVD release of YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE--the fifth of the Bond series--is near-perfect, as is typical for this series in general: the usual loads of extras(commentary, documentaries, trivia, just oodles of stuff). Now out of print(though rumored for reissue this fall--but the same, or with even more?)but well worth having if you can find it without spending too much. The only fault I can find with this one is that the soundtrack is in mono(after all these years, the previous film, THUNDERBALL, was finally mixed to stereo). The image is near flawless, and if the film isn't quite near the top echelon of Bond--the women aren't especially memorable(if still very pretty)and the villain is more an image than a genuine character(maybe I was spoiled by the icy perfection of Auric Goldfinger, the strangely complex Dr. No, the cipher-like killer Robert Shaw played in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE) it's still a luscious, lavish B+ entry. And, as always, unparalleled production design, great action sequences, dashes of sex and clever dialogue byplay. And, all else aside, at least this one didn't have the latest different actor playing Felix Leiter, a catch-all sidekick who was always unnecessary(well, I think so, anyway).
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Summary: THIS MOVIE DESERVES SUCH PRAISE BECAUSE OF KARIN DOR!!!!!!!!
Review: I've only rated this movie 4 stars because of Karin Dor, who played Helga Brandt, the beautiful SPECTRE agent. For a woman so overwhelmingly stunning, I can easily give it a high rating. The first time I saw the movie, I was totally stunned by her beauty. She looks just like a goddess, with stunning features, from head to toe. If Michelangelo were still alive, he'd love to sculpt her. She's no ordinary beautiful girl. She is EXQUISITE. She is SUPREME. She is simply INCREDIBLE. And what a voice! She isn't missing one thing. I'll never forget the first time I saw the movie. I'll never forget the price she payed for her failure to kill Bond. Blofeld fed her to his piranhas. That's cruel. Well, leave it to the screenwriter, Roald Dahl. He serves up cruelty very well, especially in his books, which I can't even read. I hate him. But long live Karin Dor. I hope she lives to be 100.
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Summary: The myth that Connery was the 'best' Bond
Review: This movie is a turkey. I only bought it to complete my collection. It is by far the worst James bond movie of all time. (excluding Never Say Never Again by Warner bros). First of all, Connery is a complete bore in this film, he's more thug and less debonaire and charming like he was in Dr. No through Goldfinger. He doesn't care to be in the film and it really, really shows! And he's got a good reason to not be in it too. The story is so far fetched it makes Moonraker look completely believable! The hollowed out volcano, didn't Dr. Evil use this in The Spy Who Shagged Me? And the terrible 1960's rocket effects are ridiculously funny! Its a laugh riot. I laughed even more when they tried to make the 6'2" 225 pound (looks more like 250 in this film) Connery into a Japanese man. My god, at least Connery saved a little face with his 1971 Diamonds Are Forever. It's still not enough though. If you're a firm believer that Connery was the best Bond, watch this and compare it to ANY Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton or Pierce Brosnan film... You should change your mind. Even George Lazenby's On Her Majesty's Secret Service cooks this turkey. This movie is ONLY for die hard Bond fans.
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Summary: Bond's Cure for The Cold War: Ninjas With Machine Guns!
Review: This is one of the most fast-paced & action-packed of all the Bond films! Connery looks a bit tired (but hey, he's been "Bond-ing" for five years already!), but he still interjects humor into the part. Pleasance is delightfully evil, & Mie Hama is delicious as the surviving Bond girl. This movie isn't mindless entertainment (as another reviewer remarked), but is in fact, a reflection of then-current Cold War tensions, as SPECTRE tries to initiate World War III by framing the Americans & the Russians for kidnapping each other's astronauts. What secret weapon does our man James use to foil the plot? Simple. He has an army of NINJAS ARMED WITH MACHINE GUNS! I like the idea of modern-day, up to date ninjas as a special-forces unit, combining the use of traditional Japanese martial-arts with up to date (or even futuristic, for the 1960's, that is) fire-arms! (The people who made all of those God-awful "Ninja" movies with Sho Kosugi during the 1980's should have seen this film! Sam Peckinpaugh's "Killer Elite" ridiculed ninjas by having his heroes shoot them. Well this movie is an answer to both of those films, & the "Turtles", as well!) If you like a Cold-War thriller, this is it! If you like Bond with Connery in the role, this is it! If you like beautiful Bond girls, this is it! And, if you're a fan of martial-arts movies, like I am, this is an excellent action film of that type, made before Bruce Lee's "Enter The Dragon." Buy it, but buy it letter-boxed!
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Summary: I love IT
Review: This is a very good action movie. If your on James Bond fan get this movie.
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Summary: Worst of the 1960's Bond Films
Review: With the depature of Terence Young (who directed the first four James Bond films), the James Bond series produced its first bad film. The film was made in 1967, and has dated very badly. One of the major problems with the film is the production design which makes everything in the SPECTRE headquarters look like cheap metallic plastic (which it probably was). The film direction is pure hack work, and has badly done action sequences. The special effects for the outer space scenes look like something from a cheap 1950's science fiction film. Considering that Stanley Kubrick was making the timeless 2001 during this period, you think the producers of the James Bond series could at least have paid for credible special effects. The final problem is the plot point where James Bond is supposed to assume a Japanese entity and marry a Japanese wife. To make him look Japanese, they put some flesh colored Japanese eye make-up on him, which he doesn't have in later scenes. I doubt if any SPECTRE agents could have been fooled by a six foot Japanese fisherman with clearly western features. Sean Connery is starting to look bored and uncomfortable in this film. He probably knew he was in a sub-standard film in the first place, and phones in much of his acting.
The next Bond film "Diamonds are Forever" is even worse, and ended in Connery leaving the James Bond series forever (except for the 1980's film "Never Say Never Again".
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