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A NATO Vulcan Bomber carrying two atomic bombs had crashed in the Caribbean… To make a serious situation even more critical, SPECTRE then informed the British government that it had hijacked the plane's cargo… Unless a ransom of £100 million was paid in seven days, a major city in England or the US would be destroyed M16 called in all its top agents, but only one had a lead: James Bond… With four days to go, 007 flew to the Bahamas, where a femme fatale, a beautiful avenger, and a big game predator fish collector, a tough Italian mafia type posing as a millionaire adventurer in Nassau, called Emilio Largo awaited him… Largo (Adolpho Celi) is actually the ruthless one-eyed SPECTRE No. 2, who can easily turn from charmer to killer when SPECTRE business is at stake Fiona Volpe's introduction while wearing a sheer negligée in Derbal's (Paul Stassino) bedroom was definitely an early highlight of "Thunderball." Luciana Paluzzi is a very sexy ruthless villain… Definitely one of the better female characters in the series Bond appears to be a bit cavalier at times—spending far too much time bedding one conquest after another—when duty calls, he responds quickly and decisively… After three films, the 007 character has been established… Now, it's time for Bond to have a little fun—as shown in the scene where he consumes Conch Chowder, Beluga Caviar and Dom Perignon '55 (he once scorned), or the scene in the French château where he kills SPECTRE's agent and takes time to throw flowers on the body or the scene in Shrublands where he discovers the body of a NATO aerial observer and steals a bit of fruit as he leaves… Touches like these set "Thunderball" apart from other Bond movies With ingenious gadgets provided by Q, wonderful underwater sequences, great special visual effects (rewarded with an Oscar), nice music score, and exotic scenery, the film remains as a lavish tropical paradise where sandy beaches, coral reefs and bikinis prevailed... The viewer suddenly gets a tremendous sense of the tropics, of carefree vacations, cool tropical drinks, and moonlights romance

Apparently many viewers seem to favor Thunderball as one of the top ranking Bond films. I have seen it three times but really didn't find the movie to improve with each viewing. Is it fair to say that Thunderball is the worst of the series? Definitely not. In fact, it isn't what I would call a bad movie. So then why do I give a 4/10 rating? Well to be quite honest, most everything held up except for the pacing. The story is good, the acting is good, and some of the characters are interesting. Sadly, THE PACING IS TERRIBLE! This is what ruined Thunderball for me. My biggest complaint aside from the dull moments of this movie is the much appraised underwater climactic scene. I'm sure the scenery for it's time was deemed magnificent. To be fair, the underwater segments were shot quite well. The problem is that they went on for far too long. Moving on to the bond characters of Thunderball; three in particular. The central villain of this movie tried to come off as a fearless leader yet had the personality of a rock. The bond girl really wasn't given much to work with and between her and the female villain, I rather fancied the female villain. OK, moving on... After seeing Connery's Bond reach his peak in the superior Goldfinger, I suppose my expectations for Thunderball were not met. Final Thoughts: A number of those who read this review will probably not agree with it. In fact, I found the loose remake of this movie (Never Say Never) to be the better version of the two. Mind you, I have all the Bond films and really enjoy most of them. Still, Thunderball is one of the few that just didn't do it for me.

This is by far my most favorite James bond movie of all time because Sean Connery does James bond the best in this movie there is lots of action espeacilally when they are under water the fight scenes are amazing the story is great the acting is good the actors are good everything is good i think all the James bond movies are good i own all of them but this will always be my favorite James bond movie. Great adaption of thunderball. So make sure you buy or rent thunder ball best it is an awesome James bond movie and is my favorite. Overall score ********** out of ********** ***** out *****

Having watched this last night it's my new least favourite Bond film. There's far far too much action underwater which really slows it down, and I got totally confused with all the women, they all to seemed to look very similar. Things takes so long to happen I kept forgetting what the plot was. A lot of the scenes and locations were reminiscent of the previous three films. It had very little humour in it and very little action that wasn't underwater. I did find the last 15 minutes pretty good including that last underwater fight but it takes a long time to get there. If it was re-edited with at least 30 mins taken out there could be a half decent film there. Definitely the worst Connery entry and that includes 'Never Say Never Again' (3/10)

This certainly has all the elements for a great Bond film but despite some memorable moments, it gets pretty boring and feels very long A lot of scenes are fairly pointless and it's really a plot by numbers at times. Bond finds this clue then onto the next scene and so on, with the film never really settling down. It'd probably have to rate as one of the noisiest early bonds too with lots of ridiculously loud scenes As normal it's great in a retro way, with lots of interesting gadgets making for some great sound effects. The underwater propulsion vehicles sound particularly brilliant For underwater action though I prefer 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. 'Dr No' wins out on the beach theme with a superior Bond girl. 'Live and Let Die' is better for a Caribbean flavour etc Overall not one of my favourite Bonds, and not the franchises finest hour