Rating: D
Dir: Terence Young
Star: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi
[22] Things regressed somewhat for Bond #4, in what now seems like a bloated exercise in excess. Remade as unofficial Bond film Never Say Never Again, by then Connery had a better hand on the character; if you’ve seen that, much of the original will seem lame. The whole “stolen nuclear weapons” scenario has been done to death since (see Broken Arrow and The Peacemaker for recent examples), and the lengthy underwater sequences may have been innovative at the time, but will now have you reaching for the fast-forward button. At 140 minutes, it was the longest Bond movie to that date, and it certainly seems so.