Goldfinger (1964)
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 2
Goldfinger is where James Bond as we know him comes into focus - it features one of 007's most famous lines ("A martini. Shaken, not stirred") and a wide range of gadgets that would become the series' trademark.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1
Goldfinger is where James Bond as we know him comes into focus - it features one of 007's most famous lines ("A martini. Shaken, not stirred") and a wide range of gadgets that would become the series' trademark.
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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,
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Cast
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Sean Connery
James Bond -
Honor Blackman
Pussy Galore -
Gert Fröbe
Auric Goldfinger -
Shirley Eaton
Jill Masterson -
Tania Mallet
Tilly Masterson -
Harold Sakata
Odd Job -
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Lois Maxwell
Miss Moneypenny -
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Cec Linder
Felix Leiter -
Austin Willis
Simmons -
Martin Benson
Solo -
Bill Nagy
Midnight -
Alf Joint
Capungo -
Nadja Regin
Bonita -
Raymond Young
Sierra -
Richard Vernon
Smithers -
Denis Cowles
Brunskill -
Michael Mellinger
Kisch -
Burt Kwouk
Mr. Ling -
Hal Galili
Strap -
Gerry Duggan
Hawker -
Mai Ling
Mei-Lei -
John McLaren
Brigadier -
Margaret Nolan
Dink -
Victor Brooks
Blacking -
Robert MacLeod
Atomic Specialist -
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All Critics (52) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (53) | 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.
Presented here in a newly restored digital print, it should look especially swish on the big screen.
... 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.
GOLDFINGER, for me, isn't the perfect Bond movie (though it does have all the elements to be perfect), but it's still a fun, corny time. Definition of a popcorn movie.
Gone is any and all idea of James Bond's vulnerability. However, "Goldfinger" swaps in a gaudier, glitzier subtext directly related to how this blockbuster took aim almost squarely at an American audience.
There's a very special, and weird, purity about the Bond formula as it is presented here: all the excess is in place but still reined in by some last measure of discipline.
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
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 tête première 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.
Audience Reviews for Goldfinger
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- Pussy Galore: My name is Pussy Galore.
- James Bond: I must be dreaming.
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- James Bond: A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
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- Auric Goldfinger: Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor... except crime.
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- James Bond: Do you expect me to talk?
- Auric Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!
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- Pussy Galore: My name is Pussy Galore.
- James Bond: I must be dreaming.
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- Pussy Galore: What happened? Where's Goldfinger?
- James Bond: Playing his golden harp.
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Unfortunately, the film looks quite dated. The misogynist undertones in the way Bond controls women as well as the ridiculously sexist names like Pussy Galore come off today as too objectifying to overlook. The action scenes are cringe worthy, and the plot seems rather flat when compared to Bond's latest adventures.
That's not to detract from the fact that Goldfinger is required viewing for any Bond fan. This is the film that established the character as we have come to know it. It's also interesting to watch this film to see how far we've come since its release, both for the better and for the worse.