Product reviewsDiamonds Are Forever (DVD, 2007)

Bargains Are Forever!

Very good film with a great plot and cast!

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Good value for a classic Bond movie

One of the better early Bonds, delivered promptly and safely. Happy customer.

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Brilliant

Great stuff,

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Great value

Great value and perfect working order

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James Bond and Diamond Smuggling

I purchased this title to complete the original Connery collection of Bonds. Having been an eager kid on it's initial release and seeing it about 10 times during subsequent school holidays, there had been a tendancy to overlook the glaring flaws in the storyline and the ridiculous interplay between the lead villain and Bond.

In Charles Grey's version of Blofeld (third version) we have an effete version of the previously menacing / scary ( for a 7 year old kid)character played by Donald Pleasance in "You Only Live Twice" - gone is the heavilly accented english to a plummy etonian and immaculately groomed caricature.

Assassins - "Wint" and "Kidd" provide comic relief as the (possibly) first onscreen overtly gay couple, their demise again being a cliched set piece in the Bond cannon.

The storyline revolves around diamond smuggling, lasers and Blofeld' megalomania, with Spectre predominat in the previuous outings, essentially written out of the series. Bond obviously gets the girl and saves the world as we had come to anticipate, yet there was something hollow within the whole outing.

This is not to say it is a bad adventure movie, the stunts for the time were great, although the car going from one set of wheels to another within a confined alleyway was just ridiculous - even to a young 9 year old mind. The fight scene in the lift still holds up as a great one, possibly only overshadowed by Daniel Craigs bathroom fight scene in "Casino Royale".

Sadly not the best of the Connery "Bond" outings; that honour would certainly go to "You Only Live Twice" in this viewers opinion; however it is still a great saturday afternoon movie, just leave your sense of reality elsewhere and enjoy the spectacle.Read full review...