Thunderball

Pros: Entertaining movie with good plot. Connery as Bond.
Cons: Some slower spots. Few inconsistencies.

The first few James Bond movies were very successful so it wasn't surprising that plans were made for future movies. The decision was made to make Thunderball as the fourth movie.After dealing with a SPECTRE agent, James ...

Pros: acting, story, action sequences, cinematography, pacing
Cons: volume level on DVD

The fourth entry in the James Bond franchise is thought to be the best by some. Sean Connery had become totally comfortable with the character and was in peak form in the role. There is more humor here, without descending into silliness. The action ...

Pros: Connery at his peak; fantastic underwater sequences; great locales and soundtrack; riveting action; cool gadgets
Cons: Mediocre villain; weak henchmen; weak performance (though great looks) from Claudine Auger

Thunderball was the top grossing Bond film until Moonraker and sold more tickets than any other Bond film. It's not hard to see why. Thunderball is Bond on an epic scale. What it lacks in dramatic perfection and casting, it makes ...

Pros: The underwater battle, Luciana Paluzzi as Fiona Volpe, the 'Disco Volante' and Adolfo Celi
Cons: plot requires concentration, principal actresses look too alike in key scenes?

The azure blue of the Bahamian shallows covers the entire screen. Without warning a figure drops from above in a mass of bubbles. Heavy breathing come from the aqualung, he grips the speargun tighter and with a kick of his flippers he swims into the blue ...

Pros: Connery, girls
Cons: Slow, dull plot, Largo, Song, Too much underwater stuff

In this 007 outing, Bond (Sean Connery) takes on criminal organisation SPECTRE after they hijack a NATO bomber equipped with two atomic bombs, with a ransom demand of $1 Million dollars (please, no Dr. Evil jokes here). The numero uno baddie behind all ...

Pros: Amazing underwater sequences. Connery has mastered the character of James Bond.
Cons: There is no really vicious villain in this one. The plot is nothing special.

Bond returns in Thunderball, the fourth movie of the series, and this time he's spending a lot of time in the water. With the growing popularity of the Bond movies producers Broccoli and Saltzman were able to acquire a huge budget and do some...

Pros: Really good underwater action sequences for the time period
Cons: Suggests things that shouldn't have been mentioned until later on in the series

When a British jet containing a cargo that includes a nuclear missile vanishes in the tropics, England calls on 007 to take the mission that is code named Thunderball.

Only the fourth film in the series, the producers are still in the...

Pros: Good predictable adventure yarn
Cons: Predictable

I quite forgot that it was 35 years ago that I first saw this film on the big screen. Still, when you’re looking for a bit of escapism on a Boxing Day afternoon, weighed down by the cold turkey, pork pie and pickles who better than the real James Bond to...

Pros: Connery as Bond
Cons: The plot lost me.

Remade 18 years later as "Never Say Never Again" (this was a trivia question on another site just recently), this James Bond movie has Sean Connery as James Bond. I used to like Roger Moore and think he was the best James Bond, but recently I...

Pros: Great storyline and scriptwriting, excellent villain and climax action, SPECTRE at its deadliest.
Cons: Sean Connery seems bored, a few bad SFX scenes, a bit too long.

Good morning, 007. Your mission today- recover a pair of stolen nuclear warheads from the group known as SPECTRE. You may need to enlist the help of some Bahamian locals on your trip to Nassau, but watch out for Emilio Largo and Fiona Volpe. Also be...

Pros: If you want to see the development of the classical Bond series, here is a great chance
Cons: You can't expect the visual effects in this movie to be equal to today's Star Wars effects

Thunderball, the fourth movie from Ian Fleming’s 007 original series, also the fourth movie in which Sean Connery starred as James Bond, has several points which will appeal to someone who likes Bond movies.

First, it is the only Bond movie...

Pros: It's Classic James Bond
Cons: The series was never better than this one.

THUNDERBALL DVD

It's hard to remember when James Bond wasn't a parody of himself. The character became so big that the producer's were forced to create increasingly more outrageous elements. The latest films have attempted a return to the...