Rotten
Slightly bloated Bond, with too much technology for my taste and a climactic slaughter that's a little too mindless to be much fun.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Thunderball
Look up! Look down! Look out! Here comes the biggest Bond of all!
1965 · 2h 10m · Approved
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Directed by
Terence Young
Overview
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Director and cast
- Terence Young Director
- Sean Connery as James Bond
- Claudine Auger as Dominique 'Domino' Derval
- Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo
- Luciana Paluzzi as Fiona Volpe
- Rik Van Nutter as Felix Leiter
- Guy Doleman as Count Lippe
- Molly Peters as Patricia Fearing
- Martine Beswick as Paula Caplan
- Bernard Lee as M
- Desmond Llewelyn as Q
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
There's visible evidence that the reported $5.5 million budget was no mere publicity figure; it's posh all the way.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
The color is handsome. The scenery in the Bahamas is an irresistible lure. Even the violence is funny. That's the best I can say for a Bond film.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Classic 007 -- not the best picture in the long-running series, to be sure, but a more-than-worthwhile diversion for the action-loving escapist in us all.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh
If Thunderball's gimmickry seems to overreach at times, Actor Connery gains assurance from film to film, by now delivers all his soppiest Jimcracks martini-dry.
TIME Magazine
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