Goldfinger Reviews

Goldfinger is sometimes very enjoyable, but it's too uneven for me to call it a masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

... what they give us in Goldfinger is an excess of-science-fiction fun, a mess of mechanical melodrama and a minimum of bedroom farce.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Thrilling action comedy may be the best Bond.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Although more gimmicky than From Russia with Love, this film is equally as entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

| Original Score: 4/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The best Bond gets the best treatment.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

For my money this is the grade-A, #1, all-time grandest adventure of James Bond. (And I like most of 'em!)

| Original Score: 5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

| Original Score: 4/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

| Original Score: 4/5

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.

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There's not the least sign of staleness in this third sample of the Bond 007 formula.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Presented here in a newly restored digital print, it should look especially swish on the big screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/6

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Best of the Bonds! Connery is Aces; Odd Job a great villain's henchman; Goldfinger an evil giant of a man; and Pussy Galore, what more can one say!

| Original Score: 4/5