Review of Thunderball (1965) by K. C — 16 Jun 2011

How do we follow this up...?

Goldfinger is, in many circles, considered the penultimate 007 adventure. Thunderball, follows it up near perfect. One of the longest films, it paces itself fairly well. The characters are more in depth than what we had seen in Goldfinger, and slightly more sinister. The gadgets are present, but not too cumbersome. Connery again gets to flex some acting muscle off his individual co-stars, and puts a bit more into the effort, even though he was tiring of the role by this point.

Though good on story and high on action, Thunderball just misses epic, however hits hard for a popcorn movie.