Review of Thunderball (1965) by Imthenoob — 10 Nov 2019

Thunderball isn't necessarily a bad film but it is one that desperately needed a trip to the editing room. All of these underwater sequences were so overly long and boring. There were put in to do nothing but pad the runtime and they simply didn't need to be as long or as numerous as they had to be. It's just total filler to me and it kills the movie because it's an over 2-hour movie that could have easily been cut down another 20-30 minutes.

Now would this editing have saved the movie? Not really because the story is very similar to what we have already seen before and the villain is too generic but I would have at least increased my overall score a few points.