007 - Contra Goldfinger

Although more gimmicky than From Russia with Love, this film is equally as entertaining.

It's phenomenal!

If it is not a great film, it is a great entertainment, and contains all the elements of the Bond formula that would work again and again.

There's not the least sign of staleness in this third sample of the Bond 007 formula.

This 1964 entry is the most enjoyable of the James Bond thrillers starring Sean Connery -- perhaps because it's the most comic and cartoony in look as well as conception.

Q brings out the Aston Martin for the first time, and Shirley Bassey shatters the speakers with the consummate Bond song.

... what they give us in Goldfinger is an excess of-science-fiction fun, a mess of mechanical melodrama and a minimum of bedroom farce.

One of the more amusing Bond films.

[VIDEO ESSAY] "Goldfinger" set in stone the formula for what would become cinema's longest running and most reliably entertaining franchise. Regardless of how many installments have come since, "Goldfinger" retains its reputation as the best of the bunch.

GOLDFINGER, for me, isn't the perfect Bond movie (though it does have all the elements to be perfect), but it's still a fun, corny time. Definition of a popcorn movie.

Gone is any and all idea of James Bond's vulnerability. However, "Goldfinger" swaps in a gaudier, glitzier subtext directly related to how this blockbuster took aim almost squarely at an American audience.

...remains a cut above its Bond brethren...

There's a very special, and weird, purity about the Bond formula as it is presented here: all the excess is in place but still reined in by some last measure of discipline.

All the tropes are genre highs, from the iconic title song to the archetypal cool car to the endlessly quotable sadistic one-liners.

For 007 fans or action adventure/spy movie fans in general, it really doesn't get much better than "Goldfinger," a tremendous blockbuster that entertains on every level.

Thrilling action comedy may be the best Bond.

Sean Connery excelle une fois de plus dans la peau d'un personnage aussi froid que charismatique qui continue de foncer tte premire avec un dtachement souvent irrationnel

Goldfinger (1964) is the third entry in the long-running series of Bond films, the first of four films directed by Guy Hamilton, and the first official blockbuster for the franchise....