From Russia With Love

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Summary: Bond IS Back!!!
Review: I loved this movie,I liked the breifcase and the part where Bond said "She should have kept her mouth shut."

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Summary: BOND IS IN LOVE
Review: Considering that FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE is a 1963 movie and BOND movies a genre in itself, this DVD deserves the perfect 5. In DR. NO, the personage of James Bond was the motor of the movie. One year later, Terence Young, the director, was ready to present some interesting variants of the situations he created in DR. NO. So, the first twenty minutes of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE are a real pleasure for the film lover who sleeps in each one of us. Each scene is a subtile remake of the same scenes Terence Young shot one year before for DR. NO. Then, the movie is divided into three sections of approximately 30 minutes : ISTANBUL - THE TRAIN SCENES - THE FINAL CHASE. And it becomes obvious that the character of James Bond isn't the main object of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE as if all had already been said about him in DR. NO. The villains are the real stars of this movie ; sadistic, cruel, they aren't only appearances whose destiny is only to be shot by 007. Their motivations are explained, they play with BOND who's unable to understand he's manipulated since the beginning of his mission. Terence Young invites us to see what's behind the facts and shows us, in the first scene of the movie as well as in the last image of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, that cinema is the subject of his work. THE James Bond DVD you have to own.

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Summary: Once again, Bond at his best
Review: No disappointment to Bond fans. If you enjoyed the first one, Dr No, do not delay in getting this one. Twice the action and suspense with all the gadgets. END

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Summary: the second young bond and the best of them all
Review: fighting gypsies (one of whom is the delectable martine beswick) in scantily clad clothes, a beefcake blonde assassin robert shaw, a killer old hag with poisioned shoes, the most beautiful blonde imaginable wearing a choker, and connery's ultra cool bond non chalantly smoking his way through half the fim.
what more can you ask from terence youngs second bond flick and the best bond of them all.
from russia with love.

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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.

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Summary: One of the Best
Review: From Russia with Love is arguably the hardest edged Bond film out there. The plot is a straight shooting spy thriller, and it has nary a trace of the cuteness that permeates later entries in the series, with the exception of a cheesy girl-fight. In this installment, Bond is off to Istanbul to meet an absolutely stunning Soviet Intelligence officer who has promised to deliver a Lector decoding machine to him in exchange for helping her defect to the west. Unbeknownst to Bond and his lovely partner, the terrorist organization SPECTRE is manipulating them both.

Historically, From Russia fits interestingly between Dr. No and Goldfinger. Although Dr. No introduced us to James Bond, From Russia gave us many of the other elements we are familiar with today. We have the first appearance of Q, the big introduction of the gadgets in the form of Bonds attaché case, and the first pretitle sequence. Also, while the effects and scope of From Russia are well beyond that of Dr. No, they are still a far cry from the brash, brassy, over-the-top sense of fun that marked Goldfinger and the later Connery adventures.

Many would argue that From Russia is all the better for it. In addition to the film, we are given two first rate documentaries that give us the skinny about what went happened around the production. My favorite tidbit: apparently the complex plot was at one point labyrinthine. The producers scaled it back dramatically to achieve a coherent picture. This one is not to be missed by the serious Bond Fan.


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Summary: This movie rocked!
Review: This is the most realistic, true to life (because some of the characters were based on real people) Bond film ever made. The 50s cold war setting only makes it more real. It was one of the first Bond films I saw, and have seen it at least a dozen times since then.

Connery as usual is flawless and I thought Robert Shaw was very good as the henchman, though Rosa Klebb isn't the best or most intimidating villain out there, even if she does have a poisonous knife coming out of her shoe. This film is not very exaggerated, and is more tense and intriguing, especially the section on the train(One of those times when Bond's gadgets really helped). This is a very good quality because some of the other Bond films are a bit over the top in my view. A classic spy story in the middle of the cold war, the only bad point being the climax, or lack of one. Overall very good.

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Summary: like a good whisky
Review: This movie truly keeps to the spirit of Ian Fleming's 'From Russia with love', widely aknowledged as one of the best James Bond-novels.

For this reason the second JB-movie stands out. Its predecessor was too low-budgetted to achieve real quality, its follow-ups invariably subordinate their stories to a wide variety of gimmicks, such as Q's ingenious cars. The same goes for the female lead: 'Russia's' Daniela Bianchi plays a credible lady of flesh and blood, the sex-charged Bondgirls only coming in later.

'From Russia with love' also stands out in another way. The excellence of her Rosa Klebb-character, acted out by German veteran-actress Lotte Lenya, is without equal in any other James Bond-movie.

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Summary: James Bond in the european taste !
Review: Many people consider this work as the best of Bond series . And to me it has very interesting and enriching issues that makes it totally apart from the others .
The locations in Istanbul are gorgeous ; The presence of outstanding actors such Pedro Armendariz and Lotte Lenya the wife of Kurt Weill as the unscrupulous villain plus the ravishing and statuesque Bond girl Daniella Bianchi my third choice behind Claudine Auger and Sophie Marceu makes another winner point . Besides there is a human sight all around the film and even it runs slow paced in many moments and lacks of the accustomed kinetism, the highlight aspect to remark is its deep realism .
Worthable film , though ny favorite film of Bond is Goldfinger and Thunderball this work is to me the third in the list of the great Bond series with the best Bond ever ; Sean Connery .

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Summary: The Best
Review: This is the second bond and possibly the very best.
It takes us from Venice to Moscow, Istanbul, Zagreb and Istria.

Bond is sent to Istanbul to investigate the killing of British agents, and is aided by his friend, the Turkish patriarch, Kerim Bey, who helps him to find out more about the enemy agents and what they are up to, as well as introducing him to the pleasures of Turkey, which include some gorgeous Roma girls, one of whom does a stunning belly dance, and two who engage in a savage dual for the love of the same man.

Bond must battle Bulgarian and Soviet gunmen, and the agents of SPECTRE, such as the well built killer, Red Grant (Robert Shaw), and a frightening assassin, the vicious and androgynous freak, Rosa Klebb ((Lotte Lenya), who has fatally venomous spikes that come out of her shoes before she delivers a fatal kick-ouch!

Most of the movie, Bond spends with lovely Russian agent Tatiana Romanova (Daniella Bianchi) which provides the romance interest.

Much of the saga takes place on the Orient Express from Istanbul, through Yugoslavia to Trieste in Italy.

Lots of exciting battles on all sorts of terrain, as Bond must kill or be killed. This one sets the tone for the subsequent Bond action/espionage dramas, and has the charm which some of the latest bond movies lack. But then so the 1960/70's had the charm which today tragically lacks.