You Only Live Twice (1967)
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
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 superpowers seems imminent. However, Her Majesty's Secret Service suspects the rockets are... 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]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Donald Pleasence, Teru Shimada
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman
Screenwriter: Harold Jack Bloom, Roald Dahl
Composer: John Barry
DVD Info
Release:
May 22, 2007
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- Mono - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- DTS (unspecified) - English
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentaries
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Reviews
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.
Tons of fun, really, and Donald Pleasence as Blofeld is inimitable.
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.
Connery didn't want to play Bond anymore, and it shows in this forgettable picture.
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posted by Scott Weinberg November 11, 2005
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