Thunderball (James Bond) [Blu-ray]

Director: Terence Young
Actors: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger
Studio: Fox/MGM
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 196 reviews
Sales Rank: 540

Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5

MPN: MGMBRM111677
UPC: 883904116776
EAN: 0883904116776
ASIN: B001AQO45K

Theatrical Release Date: 1965
Release Date: October 21, 2008
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Thunderball (James Bond) [Blu-ray]

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5 out of 5 stars And the Winner is-Thunderball!    December 24, 2008
M. Bazarek (Chicago, IL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Unquestionably the best film in the series. A plot that centers upon nuclear hijacking is more compelling, and even more contemporary in 2008 than it was when the film was originally released. Sean Connery is at his best. The film has just the right amount of gadgetry-miniaturized homing devices, etc, without bordering on the ridiculous. The locales are exotic. Italian actor Adolfo Celli is suberb as the cruel villian Largo. And what more can be said about redhead Lucianna Palluzzi! This is the James Bond film we watch at home all the time without ever tiring of it.


4 out of 5 stars dvd queen    December 22, 2008
dvd queen
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

I bought this as a gift for my dad. we love the james bond movie collection.


5 out of 5 stars Thunderball - with Sean Connery as James Bond    December 22, 2008
D. Mecey (LA, CA USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

This now completes my James Bond trilogy of the Bond films with Sean Connery in Blu-Ray. Which includes Dr No, From Russia With Love, and Thunderball. These were what I consider 'the' Bond films, as Connery was, and will always be, James Bond. In Blu-Ray they are better than when I saw them at the theater when they were first released. Freaking awesome.


5 out of 5 stars Still strong after 43 years    December 7, 2008
C. B Collins Jr. (Atlanta, GA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

After the success of Goldfinger, considerable resources were used to produce the next James Bond film, Thunderball. I was in the 8th grade when the film was released in 1965 and there was tremendous cultural excitment arouind the film with magazines like GQ and Esquire promoting the film with flashy articles.

Now seeing the film 43 years later I remember just what a good film Thunderball really is. Sean Connery will always be the perfect James Bond. In comparison to the thin fellows that played Bond in later films, Connery is a thick, muscular, masculine, hunk of muscle. This makes the fight scenes more realistic and less choreographed. He is paired with the villian Emilio Largo, played by Adolfo Celi, one of the few villians that is as smart, muscular, athletic, and talented as Bond. This makes for a more balanced struggle which engages the viewer a bit more than Bond's struggles with the obese Goldfinger or the anemic Dr. No.

We also have the pleasure of James Bond meeting his match in the character of a female assassin, played perfectly by Luciana Paluzzi. She is extremely strong and athletic, beautiful and cunning. There is a wonderful scene where after making love she confronts Bond with her contempt, informing him that she is one girl who won't be transformed from evil to good through the love making of James Bond. The scene in which they dance in the Kiss Kiss club while assassins surround the dance floor and John Barry's score is at its best in reflecting island beat, is a total winner.

The plot is a bit more complex in Thunderball with the villian Largo having multiple back up plans which Bond must uncover and then foil.
Claudine Auger is incredibly beautiful as Domino, Largo's mistress who turns on her evil master through the influence of Bond.

Thunderball is the finest of the Bond films where Sean Connery plays James Bond. It has held up to scrutiny after 43 years.


4 out of 5 stars Goofy fun, but far from perfect.    November 6, 2008
Colleen J. King (Asheville, NC)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful

This has a lot of memorable moments, even though the underwater sequences are overlong, but a good villain, great Bond girl, and of course Connery. See it.