1965 · adventure · action · thriller
Thunderball
Directed by Terence Young2h 10m1965
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.
Our read: Thunderball (1965) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded adventure · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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How Thunderball feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want classic Connery Bond with underwater spectacle and globe-trotting swagger.”
Skip it tonight — You want tight pacing or cannot abide sixties Bond gender politics.
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