Goldfinger (DVD)

Ian Fleming's James Bond series of films has been around now for nigh on 40 years. Of course, it's had it's highs and lows, but with Pierce Brosnan as the ubiquitous hero, it's back to being near it's best again. However, during the course of a recent pub conversation with other Bond fans, the question was raised: "Which is the best Bond film?" My answer was "Goldfinger" and a recent viewing has only strengthened this point of view. ? Pussy Galore: "My name is Pussy Galore" ? Bond: "I must be dreaming!" James Bond (Sean Connery) is asked by the Bank of England and ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ The third James Bond movie, Goldfinger, directed by Guy Hamilton, was released in December 1964, with our intrepid MI6 hero again being played to perfection by everybody’s favourite Scotsman, Sean Connery. If any modern day director wants to learn how to make the definitive spy movie, then they could do worse than take this film home and study it closely. The gravel-voiced Sean is at his suave and debonair best and on the very top of his form in Goldfinger, which has been feted as the best ever Bond movie, a title I would have to agree it very richly deserves. (at least of the Connery films) ~ ~ This film is about as good as it gets, and just ...  Read the complete review

1964 brought us Goldfinger and it was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. With more glamorous locations, cars, gadgets and action than the previous two films, Goldfinger sets the mould for future Bond films. The pre-titles sequence sees Bond sabotaging a drug baron's base with a huge explosion and afterwards dispatches with an assassin after electrocuting him. The film starts quickly and you feel part of the story right away. Bond is sent to observe Auric Gold finger (Gert Frobe), an expert in gold, who is believed to be smuggling the precious metal for financial gain. Bond has meetings with Goldfinger in Miami, an English golf course and ...  Read the complete review

I had planned to write an op on each James Bond film as they were shown on TV, but with those darn A-level exams I didn't manage to make the first two films, so I joint the trail here with Goldfinger, the third James Bond film starring the legendary Sean Connery. The film is just your average bond film, and opens with the usual explosions, girls and fights. After setting off an explosion Bond returns to his room, complete with girl. He is ambushed but uses the girl as a human shield, which wasn't really what I thought to be Bonds style. He naturally dispatches the bad guy, so cue the intro and music!! He then goes to the beach and we are ...  Read the complete review

The third film to roll out of the James Bond Band-wagon. It was an absolute corker. Sean Connery had really began to get into his role of Bond and the film emphasized on hi-tech elements which revolutionised the James bond series. The film contained the regulars, as usual: M, moneypenny, Q, Bond, the girs and the memorable villans. Like the villans, the film was memorable too. Bond's mission in this film is to track down on a suspected gold smuggler- Auric Goldfinger. Firstly, bond tries to humilate Goldfinger. Bond and Goldfingers confederate expose Goldfingers cheating ways at cards and Bond, who chalanges Goldfinger to a game of golf- exposes his ...  Read the complete review