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Diamonds Are Forever [DVD] [1971]

DVD ~ Sean Connery
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  • Actors: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Lana Wood, Bruce Cabot, Charles Gray
  • Directors: Guy Hamilton
  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Oct 2008
  • Run Time: 120 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001EINT78
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,345 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Superspy James Bond (Sean Connery) gets tangled up in the wild world of international diamond smuggling. However, the mission is not quite as simple as it seems. In DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, Bond's chase of the jewel thieves leads him to conspirators with plans for unleashing a nuclear armageddon on an unsuspecting planet. The majority of the action takes place on the gaudy, glittering streets of Las Vegas, as Bond negotiates the grotesque terrain with his customary aplomb and fancy mechanical gadgets. As always, he manages to dally with several sexy bombshells along the way, including the wonderful Lana Wood as Plenty O'Toole. Connery is as suave and entertaining as ever, taking on the menacing Charles Gray, who is trying his hand at playing Bond's archenemy, Blofeld. Digitally restored.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Connery clocks on at the Bond factory again, 3 Nov 2008
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Connery's last Bond film for Broccoli and Saltzman is very familiar stuff. Diamonds Are Forever is one of those once popular Bond films whose reputation among the faithful seems to drop every year as OHMSS's rises. Certainly it makes for a poor follow-up and the weakest of the `Blofeld Trilogy.' Its biggest sin is the incredibly lazy pre-title sequence of Bond tracking down and disposing of one Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Aside from the lazy TV-movie look, this isn't a man hunting the murderer of his wife but someone having a bit of a laugh at work. The sequence only really makes much sense if you regard it as a sequel to You Only Live Twice that's determinedly pretending OHMSS never happened after Lazenby incurred the producers' wrath by walking out on the series.

Once you can get over the massive shift in tone from the previous film, or the fact that the film rarely makes much of an effort in its determination to part you from your money, it's still moderately entertaining in its very undemanding way. But there's no disguising the fact that after the first half the film becomes increasingly reliant on Connery's starpower, leaving a shoddy patchwork of half-hearted setpieces and weak puns as the filmmakers imaginations dry up. Unfortunately Connery walks through it all with the satisfied laziness of a man who knows he's being paid too much and is on triple-overtime while Guy Hamilton directs like a man determined to finish on the dot of 6:00pm come hell or high water rather than lose those restaurant reservations. It's particularly telling that when Bond trips slightly when walking with M after the title sequence they didn't even reshoot the scene - too much of the film has a "Nah, that'll do" feel to it.

It's also one where the rejected motive for the film's diamond smuggling - to stockpile enough to perpetually blackmail all the diamond companies with the threat of flooding and destabilizing the market - is rather more promising than the giant space laser-weapon that they opt for instead. It's not helped by the distinctly unthreatening villains, who take camp to new lows. Despite having a few good quips, by turning Charles Gray's Blofeld into a virtual standup comedian it's hard to take him seriously long before he turns up in drag, while the film's pair of camp killers, Wint and Kidd, are an even more unmenacing pair, played purely for cheap laughs. The sight of Putter Smith shuffling towards the camera with a pair of burning kebabs in the post-plot murder attempt that became a regular feature of Moore's outings and which here looks seemingly tagged on as if an afterthought, certainly qualifies as one of the series lowpoints. Still, there are a few nice moments like the opening smuggling montage or the fight in the elevator, John Barry delivers a nice score and there are a couple of nice Ken Adams designs - particularly the Slumber Chapel of Rest, designed like a stained-glass diamond. Connery's worst Bond film is still better than Moore's worst, but you really need to dial your expectations down low for this one.

This repackaged two-disc Ultimate edition boasts a fairly modest upgrade in extras from the original release - a 1971 BBC interview with Connery, a featurette on the elevator fight, a few alternate and expanded angle scenes, some test footage and an additional couple of deleted scenes.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Seans worst , 6 Feb 2009
By K. Maiden "K.L.M." (Glasgow U.K.) - See all my reviews
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After the brilliant Y.O.L.T and O.H.M.S.S. Sean Connerys come back was very disappointing. The plot of the film (which is historicly difficult to explain) centres around diamond smuggling around the world. The problem is that the film is at times very nasty and not very compelling, Sean is not at his 007 best sometimes looking like hes just going through the motions and Charles Gray as Bloefeld is not great and sometimes just very tedious.

The plus points are Dame Shirleys title song and the duo of Bambi and Thumper who are great.

Not as bad as some of the more recent films but not in my mind a great Connery classic.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not a great comeback, 26 Dec 2008
When Sean Connery came back to bond people where very happy but what we got was a very average movie. Connery seemed to just go through the motions Charles gray wasn't great as the villan and an air of nastiness was throughout the movie. On the plus side bambi and thumper were great and funny. But overall I wasn't that impressed with it Seans worst by a country mile still better than some though.
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