Review of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) by Franz H — 12 Nov 2015

Lazenby's acting is horrible. And considering he was a car salesman who had no acting experience when hired to star in this film, it's understandable his performance was shallow and uninteresting.

And much of his dialogue in the beginning was little more than nonstop, cutesy one-liners whose sole purpose was to bang you over the head to convince you that he's a cool, funny, suave and debonair secret agent.

As an example, Bond is leaving his hotel room and he grabs some caviar on a cracker. Cuz that's what cool secret agents eat, caviar. And he says, outloud, to himself, "Hmmm...Royal Beluga...north of the Caspian".

The sole purpose was a heavy handed attempt to make sure that even the most block-headed audience member gets the point that he's cool because he knows about caviar. Either that, or it was a silly spoof of a secret agent, which we've had far too much of.

The only bright spot was the acting by Diana Rigg. I'm not a big fan of hers, but her performance stood out from the poor, B-movie nonsense around her. Everything here, from the amateurish fight scenes to the acting to the photography was something out of a poorly done B-movie.

The movie was boring and uninteresting. An hour into the movie and really nothing interesting had happened. Bond is searching for Blofeld and finally finds him. This is easily one of the worst Bond films.

And apparently Lazenby's performance and lack of professionalism made him a longstanding joke in the industry, and ultimately sunk Lazenby's career.