The only James Bond movie I didn't find disappointing. It turns out that Thunderball (1965) was produced by different people than the rest of the series. They owned the rights and could produce this stand-alone remake.
Stars 52-year-old Sean Connery. There was talk in the beginning of the film about him being too old. He was three years younger than Roger Moore and they were both younger than Tom Cruise is now.
With Barbara Carrera, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Kim Basinger and Rowan Atkinson; Edward Fox as M and Max Von Sydow in charge of SPECTRE.
I don't think it's possible to electronically control sharks and make them attack someone, but it was so impressive that Sean Connery was swimming around with real sharks that you forgot about that. There was a lot of scuba diving which Sean Connery reportedly hated doing, so that was really him down there.
Has a sequence in which James Bond is equally adept at video games and ballroom dancing. When I saw this in a theater, some boys sitting near me noted that one of the guys had an impractical but aesthetic World War Two Japanese Nambu pistol.
The Summer of the Competing Bond Films! This was released at the same time as "Octopussy" so of course the National Lampoon had to imagine a satire.... "Never Say Pussy Again".
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