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There are several Bond movies that would compete for being my favorite. These would include "You Only Live Twice", "Man With A Golden Gun", and "For Your Eyes Only". (Note -- I've never seen "Octopussy", I've never caught the endings of "Never Say Never Again" and "License To Kill", and I have yet to watch a Pierce Brosnan Bond movie nor the new one yet.) My favorite, though, is "Diamonds Are Forever."
What makes this one my favorite? Here are the following strengths I've seen.
1. The opening. I consider this the most effective opening (though "From Russia With Love" rivals it).
2. Mr. Went and Mr. Kidd. Enough said?
3. Jill St. John. Definitely my favorite leading Bond female, because she shows more complexity than most of the others, going from seductive to scheming to silly.
4. The thrills. What can beat the moon buggy escape, the chase in the parking lot, or the escape from the underground pipeline? And what about Bambi and Thumper, or the multiple Blofelds?
5. The ending. Several of the Bonds, especially those by this director, have great fake endings, and this one ranks with "Live and Let Die" and "Goldfinger" as the best.
Note I said this was my favorite. It does have shortcomings. For example, the women's names (Tiffany Case, Plenty O'Toole). And Charles Gray as well as Connery returns from "You Only Live Twice" -- except in the former movie, Gray was not Blofeld but a good guy agent that didn't last long in the story. Gray was the third actor to play Blofeld, following Donald Pleasance ("You Only Live Twice") and Telly Sevalas ("On Her Majesty's Secret Service"). The other two, unlike Gray, were bald. Blofeld had doubles, but no explanation as to how he grew his hair.
Regardless, if you enjoy James Bond, this one is a must have.
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Sean Connery put on his tuxedo again as James Bond, after a one film hiatus, in 1971's "Diamonds Are Forever", which confirmed the long term trend of the franchise toward tougue-in-check humor and over-the-top action sequences.
The movie opens with a nice action sequence in which Bond ruthlessly hunts down and seemingly kills his old SPECTRE nemesis Blofeld. The movie proper concerns a plot by SPECTRE to steal diamonds for an unknown but diabolical purpose. Bond's efforts to insinuate himself inside the plot require the cooperation of beautiful smuggler Tiffany Case (a fine performance by Jill St. John). The action shifts from Europe to Las Vegas and finally to an offshore oil rig for a spectacular climax as Bond races to save the world from a high capacity laser built by Blofeld (in a nicely urbane performance by Charles Gray). In an final sequence, Bond confronts Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, two pesky and offbeat assassins who have trailed him throughout the movie.
"Diamonds Are Forever" moves briskly enough to create a suspensful storyline punctuated with witty one-liners delivered with deadpan timing by Bond. Connery retired from the role after this movie, turning it over to Roger Moore, who tended to emphasize humor over menace in his subsequent characterizations of Bond.
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As Connery's Bond movies progress they became less a spy movie and more a special effects and gadgets extravaganza. I still think this is a decent movie, but probably just because Sean is my favorite Bond and I've never seen a Bond movie I didn't like, but this is not one of my favorites. Still it has some very interesting characters and it lets us know that Bond is not infallible, and though clever and fierce he mostly gets by on luck and determination in this film.
One thing that is great is seeing Vegas back in the day. Wow has it changed. I'm glad Connery decided to make another and this is his last official Bond movie (though of course he came back for one more with different producers). Still even the worst Sean Connery Bond movie is better than a lot of other films out there.
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Connery returns as agent 007 in this convoluted finale to his James Bond career in 1971. Matt Damon/Jason Bourne he ain't, there's a distinct carelessness to his work, which often allows others to master him.albeit not for long. And he's constantly putting himself and his girlfriends in jeopardy of death, something Damon avoids like the plague. In this film, it's practically all sight over substance. Still, scenes of Bond's lab breakout,the final major scene at an oil rig, and especially a wild chase scene through Las Vegas more than holds one's attention. The beautiful St.John does some impresssive work here as well, when she can fathom what's really going on around her, at a breakneck pace.What we have here finally is a fond farewell to Connery,perhaps a little rusty, yet leaving this reviewer with fond memories of 1963 adolescence.
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When George Lazenby turned down the offer to continue as James Bond, Sean Connery was brought back for one last movie before Roger Moore took over. They also brought back "Goldfinger" director Guy Hamilton. "Diamonds Are Forever" is set mostly in Las Vegas and Bond once again fights Blofeld (this time played by Charles Gray). The running time is back at an even two hours, and it doesn't suffer from an uneven pace as "Thunderball" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" did. The story is good and the movie has two of the Bond series' best henchmen, Mr Kidd and Mr Wint. In my opinion, this is one of the best Bond movies after "Goldfinger" and before "The Spy Who Loved Me".
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