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You Only Live Twice

You Only Live Twice

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THE BEST BOND - PERIOD!
Review: Simply the best Bond ever. Great plot, location, gadgets, twists and intrigue. The John Barry score is magnificant. Connery is at his best - "Permission to come aboard sir?" - dry wit and all. This film inspired a generation of spys & spooks.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A GODZILLA MOVIE WITHOUT GODZILLA
Review: WEll, that is what You Only Live Twice came across. Leave it to one time Bond scriptwriter Roald Dahl to write a long drawn out story, and to make ill use of the women in the movie. Karin Dor's Helga Brandt was just a Fiona Volpe clone who failed to measure up to her predeccessor. As good as the two Japanese Bond girls are in this film, Aki and Kissy Suzuki, Aki was knocked off way too late in the film and Kissy, when she DID appeared, was given way too little to do. They should have change the script and just combined the Aki/Kissy character into one.

You Only Live Twice emerged as the weakest of the Connery films that followed GOldfinger. Too bad, Akiko Wakabayashi and Mie Hama deserved better.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Exotic and original
Review: This film is best appreciated if you put yourself in the seat of a viewer at the time the film was released. At that time, the film (1) featured an original spy plot (confused antagonists threaten each other on basis of acts of interloper -- a space craft-eating space craft,) and (2) introduced the idea that Japan is technologically advanced and has some cultural personality that is distinct from the U.S. I can't remember an earlier mainstream U.S. film that had ninjas or suggested that Japan could potentially launch a space craft. There is plenty of action, including an interesting if somewhat low budget looking helicopter dog fight. Finally, the sound track is excellent. The film was original and entertaining when released. You can't beat that.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: TWICE IS THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE
Review: Released in 1967, You Only Live Twice marked the fifth appearance of Sean Connery who had announced he was retiring from the role that made him famous in the first place five years earlier ( he would later return in Diamonds are Forever). The plot has Bond going to Japan where he must stop his arch nemisis Ernest Stavro Blofeld from starting another World War between the superpowers. YOLT has the best pre-title sequence where we see our hero faking his own death. YOLT has some breath-taking action scenes such as the little-Nellie chase sequence, the dock fight and the grand finale in Blofeld's secret base in the crater of a volcano. YOLT set the standard for the following Bond sequels in the way it had such elabrarate sets. Also this the first time we see the face of sinister criminal mastermind Blofeld.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Skip it
Review: This film was disappointing. Definitely you should rent it, but don't buy it unless you have made it your goal to own all the Bonds.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Da best
Review: You Only Live Twice is a classic Bond thriller set in the Orient.This movie is way too underrrated.Rent or buy it and see how wonderful it is.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: You only have to see it once,not twice!
Review: You only have to see You Only Live Twice once to fall in love with it.Connery's best and the best of the series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Once in awhile...
Review: Once a while one of those great movies will come along.This is one of them.You gotta see this.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Superb
Review: You have to see this movie.It has everything from girls to action.You don't know what you're missing!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome
Review: This was Connery's second best movie.Though it is truly great,it can't hold a candle to Thunderball.


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