From Russia With Love

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Summary: One of Connery's Best
Review: The second Broccolli Bond and probably one of the best and most suspenseful in the franchise with Sean Connery as the cool-headed seductive spy. A great script directed by Terence Young brings us a no-nonsense Bond who's on a mission to save the free world from Soviet machinations.

Bond is off to find out more about a new decoding device invented by the Soviets, but the CIA and MI-6 aren't the only ones who want it: there's word that the sinister organization, SPECTER, may be interested. Bond's efforts are hampered by a gorgeous KGB double-agent (Daniela Bianchi) and the relentless chasing by a sexy assassin (Lotte Lenya) who dispatches her victims with stilleto shoes (literally!) As if these woes weren't enough, Bond is also being chased by a cold-blooded assassin (Robert Shaw) who's never late for his train.

A great Bond with true intrigue one would expect from a spy film. As with 'Dr. No', this Bond film is limited in the gadgetry and over-the-top action sequences that became so prevalent in the later films. A great film to own!

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Summary: The Best Written Movie In The Bond Seires
Review: This movie is great for all of you people out there that may be a little sick of the generic Bond movie. This has never happend to me but I know some people that have suffered from this. From Russia With Love is exstremly well written and actually a little confusing. I had to watch it a few times before I completly understood the story.

Now for those of you who can't take change to well maybe this movie is not for you this movie lacks a lot of humor that you see in the other movies and at points can seem a littel dry. Even Q is a little dull but this was his first appearence so I think it is okay to cut him some slack.

This move does not have the usual exsplosians that the other Bond films have cuz there is no big plan that is taking place at some evil layer. THe majority of the adventure takes place on a train as Bond and a Russian girl struggle to bring somthing very important back to England.

This is one of my favorite Bond films because it really stands apart from the rest and I like the fact that it is really well written. Sean Connery is the only true Bond, but I still reccomend that if you like this movie you should give them all a try, (Just save Moonraker and Octopussy for last, they are really stupid). Well that is about it and all I have to say is NUFF SAID.

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Summary: FRWL still has a kick
Review: From Russia With Love, the second 007 flick is still considered one of the series finest.Still in it's early stages, it's an action packed improvement on the previous Dr.No .
Bond's mission is to steal a Russian decoder called the LEKTOR( which resemble an old style typewriter.Not only does he deal with a beautiful double agent,Tatiana Romanov (Daniela Bianchi), but neferious henchmen Red Grant(Robert Shaw) and Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) a Russian officer and SPECTRE agent with a wicked kick in her shoe.
FRWL may seem a bit dated, but it still stands among the other twenty 007 films as one of it's best.

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Summary: This series deserved better.
Review: It is hard to imagine that only the 2nd 007 flick would be one of the worst, but this one is just so horrible! The romance plot is laughable and badly acted, Connery and Bianchi don't even have any chemistry. A ton of scenes in the film don't make any sense either--- the gypsy camp sequence for instance. It has NOTHING to do with the plot, yet a good deal of the film is spent here. It's almost as if the filmakers had 2 scripts, couldn't decide between the two, and just used them both, resulting in one huge convoluted mess. Perhaps this was because they were trying to get the movie out in only a year after Dr. No came out. A shame--- had they given FRWL more time and not rushed it, it could have been something really good.