Thunderball (1965)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:30
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 14 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Based on Ian Fleming's 1961 novel, THUNDERBALL is 007 at his best. The fourth film in the Bond series finds the super spy (Sean Connery) battling a powerful organization named S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and... [More]
Starring: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi
Director: Terence Young
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Reviews for Thunderball
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Thunderball, the biggest, most lavish, and longest Bond film at that time, was the most popular of its day. Full Review |
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It was still fun despite its shortcomings. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Sean Connery's fourth Bond film, Thunderball, slips from the peak of From Russia with Love and Goldfinger, but still provides plenty of thrills of the brand only 007 can provide. [Blu-ray] Full Review |
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If Thunderball's gimmickry seems to overreach at times, Actor Connery gains assurance from film to film, by now delivers all his soppiest Jimcracks martini-dry. Full Review |
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Slightly bloated Bond, with too much technology for my taste and a climactic slaughter that's a little too mindless to be much fun. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Relatively disappointing. Full Review |
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There's visible evidence that the reported $5.5 million budget was no mere publicity figure; it's posh all the way. Full Review |
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Formulaic it may be, but this is still classic 007 action, featuring great underwater sequences and a wicked femme fatale. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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3/4 |
Sean Connery is fantastic Full Review |
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The fourth Bond, marking the point at which spectacular hardware began to dominate the series. Sleek and quite fun all the same. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Certainly among the top five of all Bonds, and still socko.
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3/5 |
The color is handsome. The scenery in the Bahamas is an irresistible lure. Even the violence is funny. That's the best I can say for a Bond film. Full Review |
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It loosely maintains the series’ early wit, which may be solely attributed, perhaps, to ease with which Sean Connery inhabits the role of Bond. Full Review |
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7/10 |
If it doesn't live up to its illustrious predecessors...well, it still has Connery, and that's a plus in anybody's book. Full Review |
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