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Summary: This movie started my love of 007
Review: I was 9 years old when I saw this in the theatres. My best friend Harvey Harmon and I sat through it 4 times and did not leave the theatre until after dark. (They were easier about it in the old days) We were engrossed, fascinated, wanted to BE spies ourselves. I cannot remember the last time I saw it before buying the collectors set and sitting at home one night with my teen-aged daughter and watching it. It was as fresh and interesting and suspenseful and any movie I had ever seen. Light on the gadgets, no humongous explosions, just suspense, mystery intrique AND James Bond done right. FRWL is the way the all should be. I enjoy the later ones, Brosnan is a great Bond, relies a but less on the gadgets than Moore-era Bond, but this to me is the true definition of who 007 really is. Every Bond fan should see and study this movie in order to understand the aspects of the Bond mystique that started the whole thing. The pre-evolutionary Bond that is essential to understanding why 007 became such a cultural icon to begin with. How does one character go on steadily for 38 years? You don't see that sort of thing with the Die Hards and True Lies. DH2 and 3 were boring and predictable, TL shot its bolt all at once and you know any sequel would just ruin it, but Bond endures. FRWL will explain why my daughter will be watching Bond movies with HER teenaged son or daughter one day.
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: This is the second movie in the James Bond 007 series from 1963. The evil organization called SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion) is back at it again after James Bond foiled Dr. No in the first episode. The music is about average when compared to the series as a whole, but it is a huge improvement over the first film "Dr. No."This is the first appearance of the series for Desmond Lllewelyn. The credits list his character's name as "Boothroyd," but the name was changed in the next film ("Goldfinger") to "Q," because he is the head of "Q" section. ("Q" is the name by which everyone knows him by.)In my opinion, this movie is the better than goldfinger, because "Goldfinger" has some major flaws in it. The best Bond movie of all, however, is "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969) with George Lazenby. The promotional copy on the back of the VCR jacket sums it up: "Dazzling highlights include a riveting helicopter attack, a gypsy camp gun battle, and a bone-crunching brawl aboard the Orient Express. From the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice, 'From Russia With Love' delivers slam-bang thrills laced with the humor and sex appeal of Agent 007 himself." In conclusion, this movie is one of the top 3 or 4 Bond films, and it is a must-see for Bond fans.
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Summary: Have to agree with the viewer from St. Louis...
Review: ...who is absolutely right. From Russia With Love is definitely the best Bond film of all time, barring possibly Goldfinger. It's a real movie with real people, and Bond is human. He does not aspire to execute totally impossible stunts, such as Pierce Brosnan's recent dive into a plunging plane from a motorcycle at 3,000 feet (which, occuring in the film GoldenEye, was absolutely ridiculously unbelievable). The old Bond (Connery) is for the most part a typically real guy. The new Bond (Brosnan) is too slick for my taste. He's too unrealistic. While you always got the feeling that Connery's Bond was somehow in danger--actually in danger of dying--you'll never get the feeling that Brosnan is even afraid. Well, maybe he sweats once in a while. But someone who--while being chased by an army of gun-toting Russian terrorists--can drive a motorcycle off a cliff to chase an airplane nose-diving straight to the ground, move his body through the air and climb into the diving plane, get at the controls and pull them up before the plane hits the ground-- You get the idea. Connery would never survive. Brosnan does because he's a little bit too bendable--plastic.
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Summary: The Best One Of The Series
Review: Although many people consider Goldfinger the best, I like this one the most because not only was it the one to first some of the standards of the others (Q, the opening seqeunce, nutty villains and their right hand men/women) but actually because it's the most believeable and has the most plot out of them all. Sure, when I watch Bond, I like brainless action anhd nonsense, but this one kept the mind going as well.
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Summary: I wish that it is still available!
Review: Will The Studio that produces this movie From Russia with love. Please makeit available again? and thanks!
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Summary: The BEST Bond film?
Review: This is the second Bond film in the series, and they were just honing the formula before Goldfinger (the breakout movie) set the standard. Made in 1963, this film looks a little dated. But From Russia With Love is probably the best story of any Bond film. It's not too outrageous, just a simple story about competing Cold War powers. No space rockets. No world domination. No stealing nuclear devices. No volcano hide-aways. There have been some very stereotypical villains with odd quirks, almost cartoonish. But there is none more believable than Red Grant. He is not a freak (Jaws or Odd Job) but a very professional killer. He enjoys it. He shows that he is very proficient at what he does, and is a very cruel man. But his downfall is his humanity, his greed to have more money. Bond takes the narrowest of chances and finds a way to overpower and kill this villain. Great scenes with Grant. FRWL is a very good story, and it relies on the plot more than the other Bond films. The gadgets are very sparse which indicates that 007 has the resources, courage, intelligence and presence to solve problems and survive the dangers he encounters serving his government. THAT is the essence of James Bond, not the gadget laden secret agent that was to follow in every other bond film. I have seen every Bond film, and have to say the Connery films are the best. Of those, Goldfinger is probably the essential episode. But From Russia With Love is a much more realistic version. Yeah, yeah, I know to many fans, the REAL Bond is much bigger than life, but there's something about FRWL that makes him seem more human and I really enjoyed that. By the way, I think the worst Bond movie is The Man With The Golden Gun. There is NOTHING good about that thing.
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Summary: I'll take this over any modern one anyday!
Review: A real spy movie. This formula has been used maybe 3 other times:(OHMSS, FYEO, Living Daylights) but this was Sean Connery and that's that! They made a gem here. This had all that cloak and dagger stuff that you don't see anymore. Connery was charasmatic, cold, rough and savvy. I really wish that Robert Shaw could have somehow recurred his role, he was chilling. "You may know the right wines but you're the one on your knees" The train fight scene ranks up there with the ones Lazenby did in "OHMSS", and some of Dalton's. By the way, Brosnan is adequate and Roger Boore never had a good fight scene. Armendariz as Karim Bey is fantastic, he is the best ally of Bond in any movie. He didn't have action scenes but he was smart and witty and was like a wise master to 007.Tanya (Bianchi) was gorgeous and convincing as a Russian spy. By the way, don't you just love #1's (Blofeld) voice? (Very sinister)A classic. #3 in my list of the series.
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Summary: #1 Sean Connery Bond Film
Review: I'm a major fan of Bond and this is my favorite Bond with Sean Connery. The graphics wre good for a movie fom that era and any Bond fan should see it.
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Summary: JAMES BOND -007 IS BACK
Review: Second film in the on going, never ending series. Terence Young directs this fast paced, action packed movie. Connery returns as "BOND". Future "BOND" baddie, Walter Gotell (GENERAL GOGOL), has small but brief cameo at begining of film. Again 5 STARS.
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Summary: BOND IS BACK
Review: 2nd screen outting of the master spy. Terence Young once again directs. Sean Connery SENSATIONAL as "BOND". BEST in the movie series. Even has a cameo appearance by pre-"GENERAL GOGOL", Walter Gottel.
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