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Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "007: From Russia With Love" (1963)This quick follow-up of the first Bond movie "Dr. No" produced in just 12 months time, released on October 10th 1963 in London, delivers more thrills, higher valued action scenes and leading actor Sean Connery, in top-form to encounter a further depth-taking toward the crime organization "Spectre" without revealing the name nor the headmaster's face just yet, who sends out his associates to retrieve an encrypting code device from the Russians stationed in Turkey.Suspense levels are tighten-up with "From Russia With Love". The locations range from classic countrysides over exotic oriental belly dancing occasions to a moving train scene, where the film directed by reprising director Terence Young (1915-1994) plays out the full strength of iconic production-values-in-the-making for future Bond pictures to come with hand-to-hand combats, gun-shooting, helicopter to boat action scene, when 21-year-old actress Daniela Bianchi at Sean Connery's side dining with the highly-trained spy nemesis character Grant, portrayed by Robert Shaw (1927-1978), before the action takes his turns to an accelerated showdown sequence of putting James Bond in on-going motion from train interiors to a Venetian hotel room of surprising second suspense infusions.Producers Albert R. Broccoli (1909-1996) and Harry Saltzman (1915-1994) exceed themselves in executing the production with precision, a doubled budget and refined cinematography by Ted Moore (1914-1987) as well as promoted production designer Syd Cain (1918-2011), who brings in sophisticated class and delicacy, more gadgets to be used by James Bond in a constant-striving spy adventure with elegant costume design as taste to mark "From Russia With Love" already one of the best of the "007" movie series. © 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Samuel-Shovel "From Russia with Love" is the second installment in the Bond franchise and widely considered to be the best of the Bond movies up to this point. While I haven't seen enough of them to either confirm or deny this, I did really really like this movie. I understand the praise.Connery revises his role as James Bond, heading to Turkey to meet with a potential Russia defector who wants to travel back to England with him and bring a Russian super-decoder as payment. What Bond doesn't know is that Tatiana is secretly working for Rosa Klebb, former officer for the Russian military. What Tatiana doesn't know is that Klebb is not loyal to the motherland anymore and is secretly working for SPECTRE. SPECTRE is attempting to pit Russia and England against one another, assassinating James Bond, while stealing the Lektor machine in the process. It's all very complex.This movie's filled with great scenes and Connery is at his very best in this one. The cast around him is fantastic too. Robert Shaw may just be my favorite Bond henchman I've seen thus far. He's a fantastic actor that has this foreboding-ness about him that I can't get out of my mind. My favorite character introduced in this one though is Kerim Bey. I'm sad this actor died so young because he is phenomenal here.A couple of scenes stand out, some of them really setting the tone for future Bond stereotypes. For one, the train fight scene is absolutely brutal! There's so much tension and good action choreography in this, one of the best early Bond fight scenes, hands down. The scene where we get introduced to our first set of gadgets is fun too. The suitcase isn't the most memorable gadget but it has a great deal of importance as it introduces us to Q.Sidenote: I also loved the chess scene and the great set design on display there. I loved all the scenes involving SPECTRE as well.I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the title sequence, another archetype of the Bond flick. It's a memorable one (even if you can't read it) and foreshadows our interactions with the gypsies later. This one has everything you want in a Bond film: a good henchman, SPECTRE, a devious plot, good action sequences, gadgets, beautiful women. This is the film that changed the action genre forever!

morganstephens512 What I liked1. Like with the other two films so far of his, Connery did a great job2. It was interesting to see a movie about Russia in the sixties3. The chess scene was pretty cool to watch4. It felt like the first Bond movie that showed itself to be a part of something biggerWhat I didn't like1. The first twenty or so minutes are kind of confusing if you are not much of a Bond fanOverall I would say that this is still a very solid effort for Bond and that this movie deserves good reviews and is quite under rated compared to other Connery titles in the series.

Leofwine_draca After the success of DR. NO, a film which I personally didn't care for very much, the Bond series becomes a familiar hybrid of hi-tech gadgetry, high-speed chases, explosions, exotic locations, some very impressive stunts and action mixed in with a traditional romance, some cheesy one-liners, and a complex spy plot involving numerous factions. Yep, I enjoyed this film a lot, from the good cast to the well-shot locations and complex characters. This is what a real Bond film should be like.Here, Sean Connery looks and sounds more assured as Bond; indeed he's positively glowing in the role, and handles his action and lines with an easy smoothness. Connery is supported well by a love interest in the shape of Italian Bianchi; a hulking, memorable menace in the shape of the ever-excellent Robert Shaw; and a whole plethora of unusual and eccentric memorable supporting characters. These include Lotte Lenya as the lesbian Rosa Klebb, one of the most nasty little women you'll see (that poisoned shoe spike is a natty little weapon), and Pedro Armendariz who is excellent Kerim Bay, a friend of Bond's. Being filmed in the UK, a number of familiar British faces fill out the cast, including future Hammer starlet Martine Beswick as a virtually unrecognisable fighting gypsy girl. Desmond Llewellyn makes his first appearance as 'Q', handing out a supremely cool and lethal suitcase to 007.Action highlights include a shoot-out at a gypsy camp and a long, but highly tense, train ride in which Bond is stalked by the psychotic killer Shaw. This culminates in a fine one-on-one battle between the pair in a train carriage of all places, which was so good that it was revisited in LIVE AND LET DIE. To top things off, there's an explosive speedboat chase at the film's finale. One thing I liked a lot was the inclusion of more comedy than in the previous adventure, which Bond's one-liners being consistently amusing and lots of little odd touches (like Bond realising that Shaw is an impostor when he orders red wine with fish, of all things). In all, FROM Russia WITH LOVE is an intelligent adventure film for lovers of action and thrillers alike, with a great cast.