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I have to say that From Russia With Love is one of my all time favorites. Connery is sharp, whitty, and at his best in this film. The plot of the story is good! I highly recommend this one along with Dr. No, Goldfinger, and Thunderball!! Also, read the novel from Ian Fleming. Quite enjoyable!
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This was the best of the Bond films. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE has great scenes from the backdrop of Istanbul to the Orient Express. It was well written and had no "filler" parts to it like some action movies have. And it was a great Cold War piece, though no nuclear weapons were involved (this time). The bond girl is "real" not just some bimbo with a sexually suggestive name but someone with real goals in mind (one of them to bed James Bond, and he doesn't seem to mind very much). While the female KGB chief and the anti-Bond in this film are a bit stereotyped, they are impressively portrayed. This time, the Bond-gadgets provided for him by "Q" are a bit more realistic (the flat throwing knives that come out of the exploding briefcase are presented correctly).
SPECTRE appears again, this time using a Soviet defector, and a smokin' hot one at that, and a Lektor cipher machine as bait to kill James Bond and set the Russians and British against each other.
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In "Russia", Bond is sent to Istanbul - that gateway to the east and nest of spies - to bring a Russian defector in from the other side. The defector turns out to be the lovely Tatiana (Daniella Bianchi), a low-level worker at the Russian embassy, but one with access to a much-desired "Lekto" KGB encryption machine. Suspecting a trap, but more desperate to grab the Lekto, Bond plunges into Istanbul, where he links up with Kerim Bey, a smiling local spy played by Pedro Armendariz. The planned defection turns out to be a trap after all, but not the one Bond expected. Rather than the Russians, it's SPECTRE that's running the show, using a Soviet turncoat (Lotte Lenya) in an intricate plan to play the Russians and the British against each other, with a humiliating death for Bond thrown in as a bonus. Paving the way for Bond to elude the Russians and escape the Istanbul with Tatiana and the Lekto, a SPECTRE assassin named "Red" Grant sets Bond up for a more fitting end on the Orient Express.
Everybody loves this Bond which has the charm of the rest of the series without the camp value (fewer gadgets, more narrow escapes). Actually, it's better than it has a right to be - Bianchi is beautiful, but she's a lame love interest (she comes onto Bond as part of an assignment for the KGB, but her loyalty to the treasonous Rosa Klebb only makes her look clueless); Red Grant appears throughout the flick but doesn't become more than a killer android until the last half hour; Vladek Sheybal (playing Kronstein, the Czech genius who crafts SPECTRE's intricate plot) and Lenya (as Klebb) look like fearsome characters, but appear so briefly, they barely connect with the story. Kerim Bey is actually one of the best supporting characters in the series, which only makes his end seem that much more painful. (Armendariz was terminal with an especially painful cancer, supposedly contracted because of his role in "The Conqueror" which was filmed near atomic test sites). There are whole tracts of this film which don't connect and only slow it down (the gypsy camp sequence).
That said, the flick excels as a great, and explains why nobody ever has managed to pull off an intelligent Bond parody - "Russia" manages the task with more bite than anybody is willing to admit. The flick masterfully sends up Bond - notably his taste in the finer things (Grant gets the upper hand over Bond despite his bad choice of wines) and women (the enemy baits him with the beautiful Tatiana which forces him, probably for the first time in his life, to stress for business over pleasure). The flick also sets the tone for the evil forces of SPECTRE (the series wouldn't junk the organization until a lawsuit made it cheaper to do so by the time "For Your Eyes Only" unspooled in 1981). Not just the sophisticated organization of "Dr. No", SPECTRE has a sense of loyalty (Bond must pay for killing Dr. No) but also a delicious sense of cruelty (trainees on "SPECTRE Island" practice on live targets; a venom which proves incurable in less than 12 seconds isn't fast enough). Toss in the "Orient Express" and the catacombs of Constantinople, and "Russia" earns its spot at the top of Bond lists.
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This is the most faithful adaption of an Ian Fleming novel and the most solid spy film, story-wise (ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE would be second, I think). The directing, acting, locations all work.
It's not just a great James Bond movie, it's an excellent thriller of spy wars in the 1960s.
Robert Shaw, whose other great role was Quint the shark killer from JAWS, is strong and believable as the psychotic agent killer stalking Bond. The brawl to the death on the Orient Express set the standard for screen fights for decades.
With the next 007 opus, GOLDFINGER, the series would begin its very long love affair with the more fantastic elements of the spy movie fantasy, but the Bond films probably wouldn't have survived as long if they didn't--especially since the Cold War ended! (And no one saw that ending as soon as it did).
Still a great movie.
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE is Bond with a brain...reverse the numbers and give 007 a 700 IQ. This is the most intelligent of the Bond films, holding up for 40 plus years. Sean shines: ending a catfight at a gypsy camp (complete with a belly dancer), creating havoc on the Orient Express and throughout Istanbull. Pedro Armendariz is delightful as Kerim Bay and Robert Shaw, one of the most sinister and evil Bond villans. Terrance Young masterfully directs the action and credit Matt Monroe with the first bonafide Bond theme song.
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