Directed by Terence Young
Back to director Terence Young who did the first two Bond flicks (Dr. No, From Russia with Love) for the 4th Bond film.
Opening the movie we have Thunderball sang by the legendary Tom Jones.
It's kinda cheesy.
Early on Bond is on his game, making moves on the ladies. At one point he extorts sex from a masseuse. Why is it cool when he does it?
I found the first 20 minutes to be quite boring. Then suddenly the story starts to take shape when there is a changeling of a British pilot who manages to steal a Vulcan bomber with a payload of 2 nuclear bombs.
Vulcan bombers! Cool!
The pilot kills the crew and ditches the bomber in the waters off of Nassau in what must have been the easiest water crash landing ever! Apparently it's not that difficult to land a British bomber on the bottom of the ocean.
Sidebar - I had to Google Nassau. Looks nice!
Agent 007 attempts to get a beauty in the mood with the use of an aphrodisiac, conch chowder. Sounds disgusting. Is chonch chowder really an aphrodisiac? Google says yes!
We meet our bad guy for this story, Largo...
...who is known as #2 in the evil crime syndicate, SPECTRE. Who does #2 work for? Well, #1 of course, whom we never really see. Apparently if you fail your task #1 disposes of you in some dastardly manner. Largo here likes to feed people to his pet sharks.
Let's not forget our Bond girl for this episode, Domino.
Hubba, Hubba
Along the way 007 gets caught, escapes and eventually locates the stolen a-bombs which leads to an underwater speargun fight between the bad guys and Navy troops. An obnoxiously LONG speargun fight! Get on with it!
The movie ends with Bond and the lovely Domino getting yanked out of the ocean by a B-17 with a hook on the nose. Wait, was that a B-17???
I believe it is! What the hell? Who thought this crap up? Apparently it was a real thing.
Seems that it be would overly-stressful on one's person.
Once again the movie held my attention. These first 4 have all been about the same, you can see the character developing more along the way. Increasing use of one liners and doing more "secret agent shit". In retrospect the Bond of the first movie almost seems like a deluxe insurance investigator compared to this one. Still enjoying the movies so far.
I give it
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