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Thunderball | Year: 1965 Classification: Action/Adventure Directed: - Terence Young Actors/Actresses: - Desmond Llewelyn - Sean Connery - Claudine Auger Thunderball There will always be different opinions on what Sean Connery's best film is.In my opinion his best is Thunderball.This movie has several good things about it.One is action.With a spectacular underwater battle and a heart-stopping clash with Largo's killer sharks, this one has all the action you'll ever need.It also won an Academy Award in 1965 for Special Visual Effects.Two is music.Tom Jones bolts out the theme song and a great musical score highlights the film.Three is acting.Sean Connery is at his best as playing James Bond.Adolfo Celi is one of the best Bond villains ever as Emilio Largo next to Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds are Forver who is played by Charles Gray.Four is girls.With Bond beauties such as Claudine Augner, Lucianna Paluzzi, Martine Beswick, and Molly Peters, Thunderball has some of the best girls in the series.If you want other good OO7 films, check out GoldenEye , Goldfinger, The Spy who Loved Me, or The World is Not Enough. I heavily recommend all the movies I mentioned in this review and they all deserve five stars too. What sharp little eyes ya got. Wait 'til you get to my teeth After a rousing success the previous year with Goldfinger, the folks at Eon Productions had their work cut out for them, attempting to carry the momentum the Bond series further. 1965's Thunderball was a terrific movie to push the ante and in my opinion, it was Thunderball that cemented the Bond franchise into a "dynasty", so to speak. Following from the Goldfinger formula, Thunderball was loaded with a plot of epic proportions, more gadgets, more action sequences, more engaging villains and of course, more voluptuous women. Probably what makes Goldfinger a rank higher than Thunderball is that in all aspects of the film (gadgets, villains, women) aren't as memorable and captivating as Goldfinger. And not to mention, the movie tends to drag on a bit more and hence, the longer duration (2 hr. 10 min. compared to Goldfinger's 1 hr. 53 min.). The storyline is pretty straightforward. 007 is recovering at a spa resort as SPECTRE is planning a wild scheme while he's at it. An agent of SPECTRE, Count Lippe keeps tabs on Bond and even attempts to kill him so that our hero doesn't figure out what SPECTRE is concocting. SPECTRE is successful in gassing a test pilot, Francois Derval, otherwise nicknamed Thunderball, and replacing him with a SPECTRE agent, who is known as Angelo, a frontman who has been under the knife extensively to be Derval in every way. Angelo takes Derval Color Buy Thunderball at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Thunderball Search with the Priority Search Engine on Thunderball This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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