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Summary: Goldfinger (1964)
Review: This is the thrid James Bond movie and the best I've seen yet (I've only recently become interested in 007 and have only seen this and the first two). The action, acting, music and special effects are all excellent, and the title song sung by Shirley Bassey is awesome ("..."). Sean Connery is, like his other outings, superb as Bond. The movie is about 007 being sent to spy on a guy named Auric Goldfinger, and he later finds out Goldfinger's trying to break into the world's largest bank at Fort Knox. Along the way, Bond meets...Goldfinger's pilot,... This is an awesome flick.
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Summary: mr. bond!
Review: this movie is so cool.i love sean connery but my fav. is roger moore.this is better than some other connerys like from russia with love which is the boringest bond movie ever. thunderball was stupid,the good ones are goldfinger,never say never again and the awesome DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.this is a good movie so buy it.
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Summary: Sean Connery IS the only agent 007
Review: Out of all the 007 movies made and all the actors who have played Agent 007, we only end up with ONE real James Bond and that is Sean Connery.With that said to me there is only ONE James Bond movie that has always had my vote and that is "Gold Finger." It's the most romantic of all James Bond films, the most well acted of all James Bond films and has the BEST music score of all James Bond films.This movie does everything right. Each scene is more trilling then the next, the bitter/sweet romance between Pussy Galore and Bond is the most sexy of all the 007 movies and Sean Connery proves that HE is the best James Bond of them all. No other James Bond movie has had the impact that this one great story does and out of all his movies is the most believable. This is for me "the classic" 007 movie next to "From Russia with Love" and "Doctor No." After "Gold Finger" they were entertaining but started to get somewhat unbelievable and lost my interest really fast.It was just to bad that this film wasn't originally filmed in Magnetic Stereo Sound so that the DVD would be in 5.1. Could you imagine hearing that music being played on a THX sound system in full stereo sound. Never-the-less i still give this movie my thumbs-up and my highest and only James Bond review.Roger Moore who i respect and love as an actor especially in the role of Michael Stewart in "The Miracle", my very first review and my all time BEST PICTURE will never have the "class" that Sean Connery has in just this one film. I won't even comment about all the other James Bonds that followed.Buy this film,,,,it's WONDERFUL!
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Summary: Anutha Classic
Review: Synopsis(novel): Bond is faced with Goldfinger, a millionaire who cheats at cards (the same innocuous beginning which started the Moonraker affair). He discovers evidence that Goldfinger is the treasurer of SMERSH, and as the game is played out, Bond finds that the real stakes are greater still. Synopsis(movie): Auric Goldfinger is a millionaire obsessed with the acquisition of gold. With the help of his assistant, Oddjob, he intends to break into Fort Knox, and contaminate the entirety of America's gold supply with the detonation of an atomic bomb - so inflating the value of his own collection.
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Summary: the definitive Bond
Review: GOLDFINGER remains for many the definitive James Bond film. It perfectly embodies all the best aspects of the 007 series; sexy girls, clever gadgets, a killer theme song, and a worthy, memorable villain. James Bond (Sean Connery) finds himself up against the notorious gangster Auric Goldfinger (a dubbed Gert Frobe), who plans to raid Fort Knox in order to satisfy his penchants for both gold and mass destruction. Sexy villainess Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman - "The Avengers") and the ominous Oddjob (Harold Sakata) are also on hand to make sure Bond has plenty of adversaries. Of course, there is also the memorable scene of Goldfinger's victim Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton) gilded from head to toe in gold paint, and the killer theme song sung by the fabulous Shirley Bassey. Also featuring Bernard Lee, Tania Mallet, Martin Benson and Cec Linder. The DVD features two audio commentaries, trailers, TV spots, radio spots, photo gallery and documentaries.
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Summary: This movie is incredible...
Review: and for all those years, I never really watched a Bond film, although I had plenty of chances to. I got to see Goldfinger, and it was incredible. This was the one with the famous quote, from Goldfinger himself, "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die". Bond tries to stop Goldfinger from trying to rob the Fort Knox gold reserve is basically what this film is all about. It just occured to me all the fancy gadgets that Bond uses had a big influence on such TV shows and cartoons like Mission Impossible, Get Smart, and Inspector Gadget, if it wasn't for James Bond, those shows probably wouldn't exist. Anyway, Goldfinger truly is a classic from the 1960s, and this coming from someone who isn't even a Bond fan.
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Summary: Always A Favorite As Bond Battles Goldfinger
Review: Goldfinger remains a favorite of the James Bond opus, combining the dryest of Sean Connery's witticisms with his most challenging femme fatale in Honor Blackman's Pussy Galore, his most deliberately golden villian in Gert Frobe's Auric Goldfinger, and the first of the over-the-top henchman in Harold Sakata's mute driver-killer Oddjob and his trusty rapier-brimmed bowler hat. The prologue kicks things off as James blows up storage tanks for a drug runner and terrorist financier. He then renews aquaintances with a belly dancer but is rudely interrupted in a shocking bathtub encounter with an assassin. James is then contacted by Felix Leiter to tail Auric Goldfinger, an industrialist suspected of illegally moving gold bullion overseas. James sabotages Goldfinger's game of cheating at gin rummy, and in the process seduces his employee, Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton). But Masterson pays the price via skin suffocation (during filming extreme care was taken to ensure Ms. Eaton did not suffer the same fate) and it becomes more a personal vendetta for James, despite the disapproval of M. After getting a gadget-studded Aston Martin by Q - who bristles when James suggests one of his devices must be some kind of joke - James tails Goldfinger to Geneva and spies on his vast, out-of-the-way factory headquarters. But someone else is also in the area - a woman with a lethal grudge against Goldfinger. And when the ensuing wild chase ends, the woman dies and James is strapped on a table with an industrial laser ready to change his reputation as a ladies man. But James bluffs his way into making Goldfinger think he is better off alive than dead, and thus he is able to accompany the arrogant criminal on his master plan - a plan aided by Red China as well as The Syndicate. When it is explained to the varied Syndicate mugs who help Goldfinger with the necessary equipment supply, it leads to their death by lethal gas (one of the most effective scenes in the entire Bond opus). But James plays the charm game on Goldfinger's personal pilot, Pussy Galore - "I must have appealed to her maternal instincts." He must have, for Goldfinger's plan goes picture perfect, then collapses in fragments. But the master criminal pulls a perfect switcheroo and escapes, in time to confront James and Galore one final time onboard a private jet bound for Washington. The film brims with memorable scenes, including a terrifically funny "what kept you?" scene where James is trying desperately to disarm a bomb, and Felix Lieter calmly switches the off button.
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Summary: Set the standard for the whole series
Review: This is where the James Bond series really began, although I absolutely loved From Russia With Love, Goldfinger made Sean Connery the amazing agent 007, not only is he a seducing character but he's a joker too, in fact in the first 2 movies James seemed much more disciplined but in this one M has to refrain him and keep him under control. This and Diamonds are Forever have to be some of the funniest films of the whole series, but anyways to the plot..
Auric Goldfinger is clean as CIA is concerned but they have reason to believe he's in a criminal plot, his plot as reveiled to James Bond is to break into Fort Knox, but he doesn't plan to steal the gold, he wants to set off a radioactive bomb making the gold unvaluable and his gold more valuable, can James Bond stop him in time? I'm not telling ;-) see the movie!!! :-P
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Summary: Saving the Gold Standard?
Review: This film starts with James Bond 's trip to Miami to investigate Auric Goldfinger (an exotic locale for many in the audience). The purpose is to examine the suspected illegal trade in gold bullion, which contravenes the official monopoly, and can affect the currencies of the Free World. Gold, like diamonds, is produced in South Africa to benefit their mine owners and political allies. It starts by showing Goldfinger cheating at cards: he's not a gentleman! This is a sign of a villain. The actor was chosen to match the description in the novel, not for political correctness. Bond arranges a golf match, flashes a gold bar, and out-cheats the cheater (to show moral superiority?). Would any secret agent act in such a manner? Following Goldfinger to Switzerland, Bond discovers the means used to smuggle gold - like in "The French Connection". Discovery leads to action, and a car chase, then capture. Like other such scenes, it fills up time but does not advance the plot. This chase is without dialogue, so you can read into it what you will. (I wonder if this chase was copied from the Keystone Kops?) The film then shows an industrial laser, a novelty at the time, being used in violation of Federal safety regulations. Bond is flown to Baltimore, avoids Customs, then arrives in Kentucky. Normal prosaic life forms a background to villainy, as in a Hitchcock movie. We see the squadron that will play a part in the attack on Fort Knox. While it may be impossible to quickly steal all this gold, there is another way to make it unavailable to America, and cause the price of gold to skyrocket. Manipulating the supply, whether of oil or electricity, can be very profitable when there is no substitute. The criminals who help in this scheme are paid off then their job is done. The vehicles used tell of corporate placement. To reflect changing political relations, the other villains in this film are Red Chinese. The squadron flies over and releases the binary nerve gas (a proposed weapon of war at the time, like SDI today). The nuclear device is then planted in the bowels of Fort Knox. Of course, this scheme is foiled by the superhuman action of James Bond. The gold supply of America, and the Free World, are saved from economic catastrophe. Henry A. Zeiger's book "Ian Fleming The Spy Who Came in With the Gold" provides a literary analysis in the last chapter. Read it to understand Fleming's novels. These stories only work if you don't think about the plot. Watching this 1965 film is eerie after 9/11/2001. Foreign conspirators exploding a dirty bomb to damage and terrorize America? Aided by those who learned to fly in America? Controlled by a wealthy and evil foreigner to profit from the disaster? Using a poison gas? How incredible in those days!
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Summary: The Second Best Bond Film..............EVER!
Review: This is a great movie that set the tone for the ENTIRE series. Connery is at his all time best as Bond in this one and the Villain and Henchmen are top notch. The car is cool even by today's standards. The only problem is the tracking beep gets a little annoying. All in all a great film, in my opinion second to only The Spy Who Loved Me. Connery fans should note that this was Sean's last real effort as 007. After Goldfinger he just goes through the motions and the movies suffer(except for You Only Live Twice, no one could have made that turkey fly) I guess old Sean felt you can't top perfection. He's perfect in Goldfinger, His best Bond film. BUY IT! SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!
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