Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most advanced device that Connery uses is a regular motorcycle, touched up to shear cars and jump a little farther. Late in the movie, Bond flies on a U.S. Navy self-powered one-man flying object from a submarine near Largo's boat. But that manuever is so broadly done that it comes off as a spoof on the other production company...
...fact, Bond followers will probably register some deja vu in Never Say Never Again, whose hotline is almost identical to one of Connery's earlier efforts, Thunderball. In that offering, the con-partisan bad guys, SPECTRE, captured a etched U.S. Air Force plane with nuclear missiles a board and then ransomed it to the world. This name, SPECTRE is up to evil doings once again, filtrating NATO's strategic bomber command with a turncoat U.S. Air Force officer, sending two cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads into the Atlantic--where, again, the evil group is waiting to claim and ransom...
...mastermind of no-good is Largo (Klaus laria Brandauer), a cheerful middle-aged multimillionaire with a beautiful top agent named atima Blush (Barbara Carrera). He gives the world--mainly Bermuda, Cannes, and North Africa--a week to pay up. Enter the rehabilitated bond, at the insistence of the British foreign minister--who has a higher opinion of 007 than the agent's newfangled current boss...
...Cannes casino at a complex video game (a modern update of a baccarat table); a direct confrontation over Largo's innocent girlfriend Domino (Kim Basinger); and finally the obligatory showdown. The victory for the old days--for viewers and characters alike--is best summed up by "Q" (Alec McCowen), Bond's chief gadget provider. "The bureaucrats are now running the place; you can't do anything without a computer okaying it. Everything's by the book," he laments to Connery. "Now that you're back, I hope we're going to have some gratuitous sex and violence...
...while Bond, quite properly, delivers plenty of both, the thing that sets Never Say Never Again apart from his last few escapades is a refreshing absence of gratuitous technology and special effects. In the last few Bond flicks with Moore, any dialogue seemed to be just a bridge between the high-tech special effects; here the technology is kept under control. Ian Fleming's James Bond was never intended to get by on equipment alone--save for some "Q" -designed gadgets, he survives and prospers through wiles and luck. Bond is Connery fending off killers with urine, not Moore driving...