Thunderball


Thunderballnot the best Bond film ever, but certainly one of the good ones...

My last viewing of Thunderball got interrupted, but tonight I managed to see it all. It is not the best Bond film, but is certainly one of the good ones.

James Bond's fourth adventure takes him to the Bahamas, where a NATO warplane with a nuclear payload has disappeared into the sea. Bond (Sean Connery) travels from a health spa (where he tangles with a mechanised masseuse run amuck) to the casinos of Nassau and soon picks up the trail of SPECTRE's number-two man, Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), and his beautiful mistress, Domino (Claudine Auger), whom Bond soon seduces to his side.

Equipped with more gadgets than ever, courtesy of the resourceful Q (Desmond Llewellyn), agent 007 escapes an ambush with a personal-size jet pack and takes to the water as he searches for an underwater plane, battles Largo's pet sharks, and finally leads the battle against Largo's scuba-equipped henchmen in a spectacular underwater climax.

This thrilling Bond entry became Connery's most successful outing in the series and was remade in 1983 as Never Say Never Again, with Connery returning to the role after a 12-year hiatus. Tom Jones belts out the bold theme song to another classic Maurice Binder title sequence.

It is a cracking film and everything from the jetpack to Aston Martin make this a classic Bond film.

The main reason I don't like it as much as others is the numerous underwater scenes which is a personal dislike. As you might expect I don't like the Abyss either!

Posted: Thu - January 20, 2005 at 10:53 PM         | |

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