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Such a frustrating disappointment

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

For those keeping track, James Bond gets it on with 4 women in this movie. Or maybe only 3, it's a little vague, but I totally got to believe he's doing his hot Asian assistant, so I'm going with 4. Anyway that puts his total bed post notches for the first 4 movies at 14. Hope this guy is using protection.

While I've never seen a James Bond film yet that I hated, I have to admit that some are better than others. Some are faster moving, have better plot lines, more seductive female characters and yet the better ones are those that are more outlandish in plot. The five Sean Connery films made between 1962 and 1967, it seemed like they are either extremely good or just acceptable. "Thunderball" falls into the acceptable mode, the first one to go over two hours, and fails to completely impress in regards to its plot line. But you can enjoy it for all it has, grabbing you instantly with that energetic theme song sung by Tom Jones.Once again, Bond deals with an extremely wealthy madman, determined to bring the world to its knees by threatening to blow up a major city either in England or the United States, and not specifying which one. As most of this takes place either on top of the ocean or beneath it, there are a lot of boat chases in addition to swimming with sharks, a major plot point established in the first scene. The action is pretty much non-stop, the women scantily clad and the love scenes hot. Connery gets in a slew of amusing wisecracks, but overall, it's still formulaic and nothing remotely special. What I'd give, though, to be able to hit the high note on the last line of the opening theme song.

When I first watched THUNDERBALL, I found it a big comedown after the excellent GOLDFINGER. I didn't care for the underwater sequences and found it overlong. This is, however, a strong Bond film for the female characters, with no less than three important women popping up during the film's course. The first is sexy assassin Luciana Paluzzi, the second the pneumatic femme fatale Claudine Auger whose red-headed fieriness is one of the film's highlights. The third female is the beautiful Martine Beswick, only a couple of years away from her Hammer debut and looking fine as usual. Adolfo Celi is a passable villain who feeds the odd enemy to his pet sharks (!); the rest of the cast is packed with familiar and welcome faces, so there's no fault there.Of course, it's as well made as usual, with good effects, gorgeous scenery in the Caribbean setting, cool music and fine acting from Connery and co. On my second viewing, I realised that the stylish underwater sequences (shot by Ricou Browning, no less) actually make THUNDERBALL stand out from the crowd by offering something new. The ending manages to feel fresh and exciting and with an increased level of violence, with all manner of bloody stabbings and impalings that wouldn't be allowed were the action taking place above ground. Sure, the sped-up action is a little cheesy, but then that's all part of the fun.

"Bond.. James Bond.""I never work out, have a hairy chest, going bald on my head, skinny and lanky and abuse women by slapping them around, hitting them and is a general male chauvinistic and misogynist pig. Yet all the women WANT me!"This movie is more fantasy than Lord of the Rings.Sean Connery WISHES he was James Bond in real life. He "ain't".What a horrible, narcissistic, ridiculous and over pretentious film from beginning to end.I actually enjoyed the film "From Russia with Love" but this trash deserves a low of a score as possible.