Rating: 
Summary: A very fun movie
Review: I think this is a great movie to watch if you're in the right mood. Sean Connery is great as 007, as are Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. Tiffany Case is a great character towards the beginning, but she turns into a bimbo at the end (she's my mom's favorite bond girl...don't tell her I said that). And I think the action and pre credit sequence are great. 007 is going to investigate a simple diamond smuggling operation --or so he thinks. Blofeld is holding the world ransom with his "laser" satellite and unless he gets paid he's going to destroy the world. Bond follows him in Las Vegas (one of the best locations). I also want to remind you to watch for Natalie Woods sister Lana as one of the best lesser Bond girls, Plenty O'Toole.
Rating: 
Summary: Diamonds Are Forever; this film isn't
Review: This was Sean Connery's offical exit from the James Bond series. He walks through the film bored and uninterested like an employee who has given his two weeks notice and is going to leave his present job for something better... .
What can you say about this film that is positive? The direction and the action sequences look like something out of a bad 1970's police drama. The two SPECTRE killers... are the subject of some viscous humor, and is about as funny as films from the 1930's and 1940's poking fun at black people.
At some points I couldn't tell if I was looking at a James Bond movie or an Austin Powers parody of James Bond movies (the same can be said about "You Only Live Twice"). The best moment in the film is when James Bond/Connery is buried in a steel pipe underground. He encounters a rat and starts up a conversation with it. When he finally ends up escaping through a hatch that some workmen open up to investigate a mechnical problem with a automated pipe welder, they ask him what he was doing in the pipe. "I was out walking my rat", he replies. Of course he's wearing a tuxedo with a red carnation in his lapel (without a trace of dirt on his face or his clothes) when he utters this line. This little bit of dialogue, and the stupid subplot about the satellite and the cassette tape make this film tolerable if you're a fan of bad movies with bad acting, bad plot, and witless dialogue.
Rating:
Summary: A thoroughly wasted evening
Review: As my title implies, you'd better be thoroughly wasted before popping in this DVD; a thick mental haze will help shield you from how bad this film is, and if you're lucky, you'll pass out before you have to watch very much of it. My contempt for this film knows no bounds - a tired and lifeless performance by all involved, including the otherwise venerable Sean Connery. This film's artistic vision is lazy and uninspired, the director was apparently about as competent and involved as an Enron executive, and some of the performances by the supporting cast are so incredibly wooden and artificial that you honestly begin to wonder if the film was really the vehicle for a bet on somebody's part about whether or not audiences would really swallow such a turkey without inciting a cinematic rebellion. On top of all this, the bad acting is done within a plot framework that is completely and totally indecipherable and un-followable; this from a reviewer who had no problem following, for example, "The Usual Suspects," a film that takes plot sublety to an extreme. As a matter of fact, turkey and lots of it would be a good meal to eat before watching "Diamonds Are Forever," as the bird contains a chemical known to cause a coma-like state, which will make this film more digestible. Even without the bird and stuffing, however, you'll be thoroughly sedated after slogging through this one... one of perhaps 3 genuine low points in the Bond anthology. For a more entertaining evening, try "Goldfinger," "You Only Live Twice," "For Your Eyes Only" or for something different but similar (and better), "In Like Flint".
Rating: 
Summary: Sean Connery WAS James Bond
Review: Diamonds Are Forever (1971)-Sean Connery looks like he should be trying to unload a parking lot full of '67 Chevrolets; the actor playing Felix Leiter looks even dumpier. Jill St. John as Tiffany Case ranks among the more irritating heroines. The penny-whistle sound effect completely trivializes the nifty 360-degree rotation car jump across the river. Even Shirley Bassey's voice can't rescue this one. 5/10
Rating:
Summary: maybe 2 and a half
Review: This bond movie is OK, but has some very serious problems. First of all, this came right after OHMSS, which I consider an insult. While Bond tries to kill Bolfeld, he doesn't even mention anything about Blofeld killing his wife. If this hadn't come right after OHMSS, it might've gotten 4 stars. The other bad things about this movie are the special effects (I found one shot so bad I laughed. Look for it when the laser blows up some missiles and burns a guy.) The end helicopter attack was badly plagued by special effects. Watch it, and you'll see waht I mean. There are some good things about this movie. Jimmy Dean plays an interesting role and Sean Connery is back. There are a few good scenes, including Bond against TWO Blofelds, the pre-titles sequence, and the end helicopter attack, although plagued by bad special effects, is pretty good. Besides those, the action scenes have no real life to them. I almost fell asleep during the moon buggy chase. Anyway, this is an OK bond movie. I suggest you rent it before you buy it. This could've been a pretty good 4-star Bond movie, but instead they had to make it after OHMSS, so it was reduced to 2 stars. A tip: If you haven't seen OHMSS, see DAF first.
Rating: 
Summary: "James! There's more to you than I imagined."
Review: Jill St. John may have been referring to Bond's increasing
waistline, but that's okay because this is an entertaining,
if uneven 007 outing. True, there are long periods where Bond is not on the scene, but a couple of comical but deadly
villians take up the slack there. The last third of the
movie slows to an unimaginative end action piece, but the last
action on the ship is lively enough. The Las Vegas scenes are fun. And look at that completely
open from ceiling to floor casino at the Circus-Circus
hotel. After the movie was make the owners put in a second
floor deviding the circus acts from the casino. It seems
the gamblers stopped placing bets when the shows went on. The title song by Shirley Bassey is one of the best of the
the series. And I've been a fan of Jill St. John since
"The Lost World" (1959). So this film entertained me enough
at least for a couple of viewings. It isn't the best, but
it's Sean, and it's Bond.
Rating: 
Summary: Sean Connerys Last Film, From Bond 7 to Bond 20
Review: This is the 7nd Bond film in the Series starring Sean Connery. Here is some info on Bond 20 starring Pierce Brosnan Latest news on Bond 20, no name yet, but here is the cast list JAMES BOND - Pierce Brosnan
Gala Brand - Rosamund Pike
Jinx - Halle Berry
Jack Wade - Joe Don Baker
Miss Moneypenny - Samantha Bond
M - Dame Judi Dench
Q - John Cleese
Tanner - Michael Kitchen
Nurse Warmflash - Serena Scott Thomas
Robinson - Colin Salmon
Admiral Roebuck - Geoffrey Palmer Some of the cast does not have confirmed roles Produced by Michael G Wilson & Barbara Broccoli
Music by David Arnold
Production Designer Peter Lamont
SFX supervisor Chris Corbould
Action Unit Director Vic Armstrong
Executive Producer Anthony Waye
Costumes By Lindy Hemming
Directed By Lee Tamahori
Currently being made by EON productions, at Pinewood Studios in London
Will be released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer & United Artists
Christmas 2002
Rating:
Summary: MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALLTIME!!!!!
Review: From the Diamond mines in Africa to the dazzling casinos in Las Vegas this movie has it all. Blofelds plan to blow up the world with a high power laser beam plan to put a global bidding with nuclear power to the highest bidder.WELL hope u like it....wait..i know u will like it. with the best bond ever this is Daimonds are Forever.
Rating:
Summary: "Colorful, comic book Bond film."
Review: Colorful, comic book Bond film with Connery returning in lackluster story involving satelite/laser and diamond smuggling. Grand entertainment, but lacks, as I said, a clever story. But plenty of sexy women and outrageuos action make up for it. Charles Gray, my favorite of the Blofelds, affects a sauvely menacing performance, and Jill St. John is lovely as the ditzy Tiffany Case ("Definitely distinctive").
Rating:
Summary: Sean's Last Gasp
Review: Like the other James Bond DVDs this film looks great (far better than the VHS versions that I've seen) and is packed with documentries trailers and deleted scenes and yet I only feel able to give it three stars because I feel that it is one of the weaker Bond movies. Like its Las Vagas locale Diamonds Are Forever is glitzy and glamourous but ultimatly a bit superficial. Sean Connery stipulated a tight shooting schedule which perhaps explaines why it looks a bit ragged arround the edges and also why there are long periods when where James Bond is not on the screen.
Diamonds Are Forever was the first of three successive Bond films to be scripted by Tom Mankiewicz and directed by Guy Hamilton and I think most of the problems with the three movies can be firmly put at their respective doors. These films were characterized by poor pre-title sequences (always one of the delights of any good Bond film), plots which don't make sence and two dimentional women characters. All are present in Diamonds Are Forever to one degree or another. The opening sequence looks like a third rate Hong Kong Martial Arts movie with badly dubbed dialoge and reversed camera work which was apparent to me as a twelve year old when I first saw the film. The sequence does re-introduce Sean Connery although he looks too flabby by now to play the part and to the truly bizarre concept of Charles Grey as Blofeld. Charles Grey was a great actor with tremendous range he could do "sinister" and "Nasty" particularly well it was regretable that the makers asked him to do "High Camp"instead. He comes over less as an international villain than a pantomime dame and without a credible threat the film lacks a danger element for which the mis-placed comedy does not compensate. The story takes many peculiar turns usally to get in a feeble joke but the result is that the plot doen't add up and as a viewer you end up just feeling as if you are being insulted by the writer. I'll list one example but there are about a dozen in the film. You can have fun trying to spot them all! Blofefd has gone to the expence of having a tunnel dug under the hotel where he's based presumably so that he can come and go as he pleases with out being detected. But instead of using this means of escape he dons a blond wig and trouser suit and wanders through the slot machine area of the hotel with his cat under his arm where Tiffany Case recognizes him even though she has only ever heard "voices on the 'phone" and gets kidnapped by Blofeld so that he could get in the line "look what the cat dragged in?" boom boom! Tiffany Case was one of Ian Flemming's best drawn women characters to the extent that the fictional James Bond almost married her but here she some how comes over more like a wise cracking comediene from a 1930's screwball comedy and Jill St.John valiantly attempts to get her complex lines in the time aloted to her. Plenty O'Tool played by Launa Wood had most of her scenes dropped to try to bring the running length of the movie down. Some of these scenes are included in this DVD which leads me to believe that we would have had more sympathy for Plenty when she eventualy meets her end in Tiffany's pool. Bamby & Thumper have no trouble in swimming pools and are one of the better inventions of the Mr.Mankiewicz I thought before watching the documentary that the house was one of Ken Adam's brilliant creations possibly in the style of Erno Goldfinger
but it turns out that it was a house that they found in Palm Springs and shot it on location. The end battle is a little disapointing and the camera never seems to get in close to the action. For all the negativity I've shown here it is still an entertaining movie and well worth viewing. It was phenomenally successful when it was first released and that success ensured that 007 went into his second decade on the big screen so even if it is not one of my favourites I'm glad it's there.
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