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Summary: Uhh...Okay?
Review: I have just recently just started watching the Bond movies. Goldfinger, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, etc. This is supposed to be a remake of the Bond Classic Thunderball. I prefer Thunderball much more than this. I wanted this movie to end since the first scene. This was almost like an Austin Powers movie. I prefer the other Bond competition that year, Octopussy. Here's a list what's different from Thunderball...THUNDERBALL Locations: 75% Nassau, 2% Bahamas, 3% France, & 20% of the South of England. NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN Locations: 10% Nassau, 2% Bahamas, 3% MI6 Training Area, 15% Africa. THUNDERBALL Villian: Age - 50 (Eyepatch) NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN: Age - 35 (Both Eyes) THUNDERBALL: ***1/2 NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN: BOMB (thank god this wasn't an official bond)
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Summary: Bond, oldie but goody
Review: This movie was not just a throwback to the less comic iteration of James Bond, but this movie also brought Sean Connery back into the role that he held for so long. Kim Bassinger and Max von Sydow join the cast as James Bond, with the help of Felix Leiter from the CIA, fight to stop SPECTRE from extorting billions from the world governments by threatening detonation of a nuclear device. The movie is filled with double meanings. For instance, M believes that James is overweight and too old to keep up as an agent. This parallels how some felt that Connery was past his days as the well known spy. There are other little quotes, as well as a wink, to let you know that this was all intentional. For James Bond, and Sean Connery, fans, this is like an added treat. I do wish there were more of von Sydow in the movie, but the movie does well focusing on Connery. The movie is also a little dated with the video games, like Centipede, that are shown in the casino. I would still recommend watching this film.
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Summary: Not a "real" Bond movie, but still entertaining.
Review: This is the remake of "Thunderball", the Bond story that Danjaq and Eon didn't own the film rights to. So because it was made by another company, it doesn't have the classical Bond opening, the James Bond theme or the usual actors in the parts of M, Q and Moneypenny. In other words, it doesn't quite have the Bond "feeling". But it's still an entertaining action-adventure. Sean Connery still knows how to play James Bond and Klaus Maria Brandauer is very good as the villain. I can recommend it
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Summary: "You're quite a man, Mr. Bond, James Bond." - Fatima Blush
Review: Sean Connery reels in his 7th and last James Bond film in this unofficial movie- Never Say Never Again. A rival Bond movie that was released in 1983 and just re-released with the 19 official ones. A remake of Thunderball, with some pro's and con's. First- the villian is Maximillion Largo, a psychotic madman who has stolen 2 nuclear warheads and is holding the world for ransom. There is also the stunning, sexy and EVIL EVIL EVIL! Fatima Blush, a nemesis that takes extreme pleasure in hunting and chasing 007. Domino Petachi is the Bond girl that kills Largo in the end. Lani Hall does the title song for this movie (it ain't that great of a song), while Michael Legrand does the music. Never Say Never Again is a masterpiece that is full of action, adventure and all-out fun of the highest order!
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Summary: Never Say Never Again
Review: Directed by Irvin Kershner (THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK), the aptly-titled NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN saw Sean Connery return to the big screen as James Bond, and while he's good, the film itself is far from spectacular. Starting off with a distinctly "un-official" title track, the action feels somewhat laboured and un-involving. The plot, which is basically a remake of THUNDERBALL plays the same, but lacks interest this time round. Instead of Q we get the sinus-problematic Algernon, some so-so villians and Rowan Atkinson looks rather out of place. However, Max von Sydow is good as Blofeld and the buxom Kim Basinger as Domino does the obligatory "Bond chick". Both NSNA and OCTOPUSSY were released at the same time. In comparison, the latter is more exciting. There are several impressive action sequences, but nobody does it better than MGM. The rating's actually closer to 2 1/2, but Connery's performance bumps it up. Not to say that it dosn't have it's merits, but this one is strictly for 007 fans only.
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Summary: NEVER AGAIN WILL I F**k OLSEN IN BED
Review: Well as I movie collector and fan of the 007 movies, I find this to be one of the best Bond films filmed. Even if it didn`t have all the stuff of an official film, it`s still pretty good.
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Summary: The worst
Review: This is definitly the worst in the entire Bond series. This is only a remake of Thunderball and they did a [bad] job of it. It didn't even have that circle at the very beginning when 007 turns around and shoots and then blood comes down (you have to know what I mean if you've seen another 007 flick other than this one). Plus they didn't have a scene before the theme song. Thunderball is much better. The acting I suppose is OK, and some of the action was enjoyable. Those are the only reasons I gave it an extra star. But this doesen't even belong in the 007 series. Don't buy this. Buy Octopussy (realeased the same year, 1983) instead.
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Summary: Yeah Baby
Review: Yeah baby, this shagidelic film of 80`s is absolutely fantasic, it`s Sean Connery`s best performance as James Bond and his final!
God blind me, if you compared this film with some of Moore`s films, I`d bet you`d see that this film is more Bondish than those were.Of course, somethings in Thunderball were a bit better, like Largo having the eye patch, and SPECTE HQ seeme a bit better, but still....this epic is a great one!
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Summary: Should Connery have said "never again"?
Review: In 1983, right when Roger Moore had been welcome as 007 to audiences, the word was out: "Sean Connery IS James Bond in: Never Say Never Again". But this film leaves a question: should Connery have said "never again"?
This film is basically a remake of 1965's "Thunderball". It was based on a story by Jack Whittingham, Kevin McClory and Ian Fleming, as was Thunderball, and it tells of two hijacked warheads and how the evil Maximillian Largo (originally Emilio) hides them. Okay, I might have confused you, but this film will occasionally leave you confused. It's alright, but doesn't really have the adventurous feeling of the other James Bond films.
This was my first DVD, and it was a good one to begin with. It has the general DVD stuff: feature presentation, interactive menus, and a theatrical trailer, plus scene selections. That's about all this DVD has to offer. Oh well! The picture is good, and the sound is OK/good. Out of 5: 3.8
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Summary: A pleasant oddity
Review: Absent from the role of 007 for 12 years (he last played the part of Bond in 1971's "Diamonds Are Forever), Sean Connery took one more stab at it the same year that the movie "Octopussy" was released as part of the authentic, Eon-produced Bond series. "Never" is an entertaining two hours, but only serves to sorely remind us that Connery was once great in the role and had done precious little of substance in the tween years. The movie lacks the panache and technical beauty of the Eon series, but Connery gives a fine performance, while Barbara Carrera turns in one of the best performances by a Bond woman in any of the movies. A word of caution to Bond purists: Those who have been spoiled by the excellent DVD extras packed into each Special Edition disc released by MGM/United Artists will be disappointed by the lack of special features on this disk.
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