Review of Diamonds Are Forever (1971) by Julian J — 03 Apr 2009

"Diamonds Are Forever" is a disappointing follow-up to the gritty "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." With Connery returning to the Bond role one more time, he sets rampant through Las Vegas to recover a cache of stolen diamonds while being accompanied by a diamond smuggler known as Tiffany Case.

Posing as a diamond smuggler, Bond teams up with Tiffany Case, another smuggler, to smuggle diamonds from Holland to Los Angeles. Bond and Case wind up in Las Vegas battling SPECTRE once again, as Blofeld plans to build a satellite capable of destroying entire cities to hold the world ransom yet again.

Wow, does this movie suck. For a Bond entry, it is really weak. Sure, there's girls, guns, and gadgets, but the plot is thin and Connery phones his performance as Bond in. There's a pair of homosexual assassins and a bunch of traps laid out for 007 and company. He goes through a secret base and gets chased through the desert in a moon buggy. There's a chase through an amusement park. I'm sorry, but while there are fans of this movie, I think this is one of the weakest Bonds ever. Not even the final showdown on an oil rig can help this disaster from falling apart at the seams. You would thing for a James Bond movie to take place in Las Vegas, it would be good, but it is shockingly just horrible.