Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

SimonJack "Diamonds are Forever" is the seventh in the James Bond series of films, and the sixth for Sean Connery in the lead role. Connery was brought back two years after the producers tried an unsuccessful replacement with George Lazenby in 1969. The public didn't take to Lazenby. "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" did okay at the box office, but well below the expected showing for a James Bond film. So, the studio heads hoped to revive the series with Connery's return. This film two years later fared just a little better. But, it also showed that Connery's Bond had changed. Connery was 31 when the series premiered in 1962 with "Dr. No." Nine years later, he clearly shows his age. For a dashing James Bond, Connery has slowed way down. A number of telltale things in his film point to the need for a younger replacement. Bond doesn't have near the normal physical challenges in this film. He's just so-so in a brawling scene, and he has a scene in which two martial arts girls utterly do him in. Thumper and Marie have some acrobatic skill but they are very slow and amateurish with their martial arts. And, Bond is even slower to react. This clearly is not the James Bond that everyone knew and enjoyed from the 1960s. There is some good gadgetry in this film, but little introduction to it by Q. The plot doesn't seem as beguiling either. The character of Willard Whyte is clearly based on Howard Hughes, and the location of much of the film around Las Vegas doesn't do anything to life this film. The variety of exotic locations is absent here. The Netherlands, London, Los Angeles and the Nevada scenes hardly add to the allure of the Bond legend. Finally, Connery seems tired in his role. The script is missing the zip and witty quips that pepper most Bond films. About the only real satisfying part of the film is the justice in the demise of the two unsavory characters who are supposed to be Bond's nemesis. Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint meet their end in typically strange and unusual ways. It's a strain to rate this film six stars, but the usual superb job of showing highly technical wares deserves the credit for this. That, and the overall production qualities of the film, which speak well for the series continuing in the future.The best line in the movie is from Jill St. John as Tiffany Case. After she and Bond are put under guard by Felix Leiter of the CIA, she says, "Well, that's a switch." Bond says, "What's that," and Case replies, "The wolf being guarded by the three little pigs."

mark.waltz With a gap of one film, Sean Connery returned to the role of James Bond for the last time (as part of the official series), and what he gets is certainly action packed, thrilling and completely entertaining, but seems to be minus the spark and the likability. He's on the case of a diamond smuggling ring run by another white cat carrying villain (Charles Gray) where there's more to the story than just diamonds. Along the way, Bond goes through a crematorium, car chases in Las Vegas and takes on two tough kicking women's gymnasts. Then, his encounters with Gray appear confusing thanks to the multiple lookalikes he has, several meeting some fascinating if gruesome demises.Gray in drag makes Gene Hackman in "The Bird Cage" look like Marilyn Monroe, but fortunately that's just a quick blur. I wasn't crazy about the Bond girls in this entry, with an obnoxious characterization by Jill St. John and an unmemorable performance by Lana Wood. The two fast moving gymnasts may be challenging partners for Connery but I really wanted to see them get more than they ended up getting. Gray does make a fascinating bad guy, and there are some moments where you may be biting your knuckles may be sore from biting them. But many of the twists and situations are weak and unconvincing, and that makes this less likable. Still, there's another Shirley Bassey song to get the action started, indeed one of the best themes.

nrd515 . I thought this one was a lot of fun when I saw it when I was 15 years old, and it still amuses me. Of all the Connery Bond movies, Never Say Never is the worst, and Thunderball is close behind. Is it great? No. But it's not bad, and IMHO, is a lot better than some of the later ones with Roger Moore who was too old at the end of his run. I thought Mr Kidd and Mr. Wint were very amusing, Bruce Glover resembled a neighbor of mine at the time, which would have mortified the neighbor, a nutty guy that tried to stab my dog with a pitchfork once. Jimmy Dean was fine, as was most of the cast. I never had a clue I would move to Las Vegas 1n '75, and in 1979 start working in a Hotel (Nevada Hotel, 235 S. Main, closed now, and it appears to have been bought by the Golden Nugget for some future project) built where the car chase was filmed! And then a year or so later, I was driving on the opposite side of town from where I lived and saw the "Slumber Inc" building! I thought it was just a building with a fake front on it in the movie, but it was the real thing, a funeral home, with a different name, of course. I can't remember if it was "Bunker Brothers" or something else now, But I went inside and it appeared the inside of the building was used for at least some of the scenes that took place in it.

Leofwine_draca Sean Connery's return to the series - after the spectacular box-office failure of ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE starring nobody George Lazenby - is a stunt-filled adventure film with a tongue placed very firmly in cheek. Whereas the initial Bond adventures were always careful to keep themselves rooted in reality with only the odd fantastical element slipping in here and there, by now the serious had become pure fantasy filled with impossible gadgets, incredible situations and only a passing resemblance to realism. This is the series at a kind of comedy peak, with the familiar series components of high-speed chases, hi-tech gadgetry and gorgeous love interests, but a level of humour that makes the subsequent Roger Moore movies seem tame by comparison.The ageing Connery once again invests his role with a certain enthusiasm, even if the stunt double is becoming all-too common by this time. His enemy here is perhaps the most remembered of the series, Blofeld, this time played by Charles Gray, following in the footsteps of Donald Pleasence and Telly Savalas. Gray lends a suave menace to the role of Blofeld (in fact three characters, but two are doubles!) and seems to be savouring his lines - he's great as the old-fashioned dastardly bad guy. Jill St. John is the rather forgettable love interest although she's certainly beautiful, but Lana Wood makes a small but unforgettable appearance as 'Plenty O'Toole' in her one-scene appearance. The series regulars are on hand to trade witticisms with Bond once again, and there are some memorable supporting villains like the homosexual hit-man duo of Mr Wint and Mr Kidd (at least I think that was their names).The globe-trotting action takes in Amsterdam and Las Vegas this time around, culminating with an explosive action set-piece on an oil rig in the Atlantic. There are many varied locations used, from action in hotel rooms, circuses, gambling halls and even the desert. There are only two chase scenes in the movie but both are goodies; the first is an amusing chase through the desert (Connery in space buggy (!) and his opponents on bikes) in which the bad guys can't seem to stay upright, and the second is a late-night cruise through Las Vegas with the entire police force in hot pursuit. Here you'll see some of the dumbest cops imaginable losing out to Bond's driving skill. Finally, the action set-pieces are also rather good. The standout is a fight to the death in an old-fashioned lift, of all places, featuring Connery going fist-to-fist with boxer Joe Robinson. Near the end Bond must also take on two female fighters, Bambi and Thumper, who certainly give the broadening star a run for his money in terms of athleticism. Add in to this some hair-raising near-death experiences - including a fantastic escape from a crematorium (!) and a good finale, and what you have is a textbook example of a solid if not spectacular Bond film.