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With Goldfinger, the James Bond series took a turn away from relatively straightforward spy thrillers and toward campy gadgetry, extravagant sets, and kitschy jokes. Bond (Sean Connery) has to prevent a notorious gold smuggler, appropriately named Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), from robbing Fort Knox. Goldfinger is surrounded by evil henchmen such as the sexy female pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) and Oddjob (Harold Sakata), who kills with his steel-rimmed bowler hats. In order to stop Goldfinger,
PG, 1 hr. 57 min.
Sep 17, 1964 Limited
Nov 18, 1997
United Artists
All Critics (49) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (2) | DVD (25)
In scene after scene Director Guy Hamilton has contrived some hilariously horrible sight gags.
Top CriticThere's not the least sign of staleness in this third sample of the Bond 007 formula.
This 1964 entry is the most enjoyable of the James Bond thrillers starring Sean Connery -- perhaps because it's the most comic and cartoony in look as well as conception.
... what they give us in Goldfinger is an excess of-science-fiction fun, a mess of mechanical melodrama and a minimum of bedroom farce.
If it is not a great film, it is a great entertainment, and contains all the elements of the Bond formula that would work again and again.
Although more gimmicky than From Russia with Love, this film is equally as entertaining.
Thrilling action comedy may be the best Bond.
...remains a cut above its Bond brethren...
Perfection.
A fantastically entertaining entry.
Goldfinger is a crucial work in the development of the Bond legend.
One of the best, if not the best Bond movie
Goldfinger, the third James Bond film, was the most successful in the series to date, due to its ingredients (hero, villains, women, locations, music, effects), which later served as blueprint for future Bond sagas.
It has Shirley Bassey's operatic theme, the Aston Martin and Shirley Eaton, killed with that magnificently macabre gold paint.
One of the more amusing Bond films.
Sean Connery excelle une fois de plus dans la peau d'un personnage aussi froid que charismatique qui continue de foncer tęte premičre avec un détachement souvent irrationnel
The iconic James Bond movie, this third entry into the franchise is rightly heralded for offering the perfect blend of action, adventure, gunplay, fisticuffs, gadgetry (that Aston Martin!), romance, derring-do, and just about everything else.
Presented here in a newly restored digital print, it should look especially swish on the big screen.
The one that all other Bond films must live up to, and the only one of the films that surpasses the book upon which it is based.
The most consistent and entertaining of the Bond series.
James Bond does James Bondy stuff to stop a villain whose name fits his intentions and obsessions.Goldfinger is like a Bugs Bunny cartoon: it's ludicrous, violent, occasionally fun to watch, and has no moral center. I enjoyed watching the film in spite of itself. Normally, I gain pleasure from films when they make my
January 16, 2012
Super Reviewer
I'm not too fond of Sean Connery's James Bond. There is something missing. Goldfinger is not a great film, but it is good entertainment, and I guess I enjoyed it for that. The plot sometimes doesn't make sense, and it's predictable, but it's good entertainment.
January 3, 2012Super Reviewer
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