It vainly tries to flash its escapist fun teeth with the usual implausible Bond plot.
You Only Live Twice (1967)
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Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 23
Rotten:10
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. With the Soviet Union and the United States blaming each other for mysteriously missing space capsules, nuclear warfare between the two... Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. With the Soviet Union and the United States blaming each other for mysteriously missing space capsules, nuclear warfare between the two superpowers seems imminent. However, Her Majesty's Secret Service suspects the rockets are being held in the Sea of Japan and assigns James Bond to fake his death in order to go undercover. Believed to be dead by the public at large, Bond travels to Japan to track down the missing U.S. and Russian space capsules. Racing against the nuclear clock, 007 discovers that the maniacal Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence), the luscious Helga Brandt (Karin Dor), and their terrorist organization SPECTRE have planned to incite a full-scale global war. With the help of Japanese agents Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi), Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama), Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba), and a slew of ninjas, Bond must once again save the world from nuclear obliteration. For his first directorial take on a Bond movie, Lewis Gilbert draws on storytelling techniques from his previous films ALFIE and THE 7TH DAWN (quick cuts, long aerial pans), rendering Roald Dahl's clever script with a fluidity not seen in previous 007 films. [More]
Starring: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Donald Pleasence
Starring: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Donald Pleasence, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman
Screenwriter: Harold Jack Bloom, Roald Dahl
Composer: John Barry
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Reviews for You Only Live Twice
There have been so many flamboyant imitations that the original looks like a copy.
Sean Connery's disenchantment with his starring role is unmistakable in this, the fifth Bond spectacular.
Tired, poorly paced Bond from 1967, with Sean Connery displaying his discontent.
Roald Dahl's implausible script is padded out with the usual exotic locations, stunts, and trickery.
This noisy and wildly violent picture... is evidently pegged to the notion that nothing succeeds like excess. And because it is shamelessly excessive, it is about a half-hour too long.
It isn't "Thunderball" and it sure isn't "Goldfinger," but it IS old-school Connery Bond, so obviously it's a darn good time.
Blofeld's volcano hideout is one of the most impressive of Ken Adam's sets for the franchise, and it is a pleasure to watch it be completely destroyed.
This one is top-heavy with gadgets but weak on plotting and getting everything to work at the same time.
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