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From Russia with Love
bond marathon movie no. 2 i'd say objectively this was better than dr. no but personally i preferred dr. no
From Russia with Love
Similar to Dr No, i preferred this Bond the second time round. The film is great with a solid plot, good plot and some amazing scenes. This is one of the best Bonds.
From Russia with Love
Não acho exagero dizer que os Missão Impossível do Christopher McQuarrie beberam e muito desse filme aqui e dessa fase do Terence Young. Fazendo uma conciliação muito bem feita entre um bom filme de espionagem e um romance, a sequência do personagem interoretado pelo Sean Connery é mais incisiva, não abandona a questão mais farsesca e o lado B de uma boa história de espionagem Pulp e utiliza de mais recursos pra tornar o show maior e mais divertido. Gosto de todo o pano de fundo da Guerra Fria, a engenhoca que nunca vimos sendo o grande McGuffin que avança a trama e toda a aura do grande vilão sem rosto, até então, Spectre tensiona esse filme pra lugares maiores e mais divertidos de se acompanhar. Seja o exercício formal de trabalhar uma luz em um tom mais neo-noir, as noites que tem uma iluminação meio fantasmagórica e principalmente a sequência no vagão de trem que tem uma ação mais bruta e caótica, mas é justamente esse momento que explícita a questão mais filme de ação B mesmo com um grande orçamento. Muito bom!
From Russia with Love
We're doing this? I guess so. A pretty grounded Bond weighted more towards intrigue and cold-war thrills than gadgetry and camp, establishing a good chunk of just What this thing will be for the next half-century. (Wow.) There's a moment where Connery and Shaw go full close-quarters chaos in a very tight train car booth and you get a sense of Bond's proximity to death perhaps more than at any point in my memory of any of the rest of the series. A frenetic, inelegant scramble, with one wrong kick to a head being able to end it all. Hey, was Grant among the first blonde-haired-impervious-to-pain type characters? Also hey, was Klebb among the first lesbian-dom-officer characters to pop up in a mainstream film? The scampering spy-craft, too, where you just crawl underground for a bit, up-periscope, and suddenly you're peeping on the Russians at the perfect moment to make a comment on shapely legs. And heaven help me, but is the romance angle actually romantic at times. Damn their chemistry!
From Russia with Love
This is only the second film of the Bond franchise but the first that really had all the real big markers of what made them great movies: the car chases, big fight sequences, a killer theme song (even if it just played over the credits) and a Bond girl who can’t resist the charms of 007.
From Russia with Love
3.5 for daniela
From Russia with Love
An improvement over DR. NO. Fun to see a young Robert Shaw, and have the introduction of Blofeld. Fun boat chase.
From Russia with Love
Pues está cotorra. Ahora empiezo a entender más a mis abuelos que les gusta las películas de acción aunque a veces se llegue a perder el sentido de las cosas pero este no es la excepción porque tiene un mejor ritmo que Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Soaked in post-Cold War paranoia, From Russia with Love is the second big-screen adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 007 novels. Once again directed by Terence Young, it sends Bond up against SPECTRE, a shadowy organization exploiting the delicate political tensions between the U.S. and Russia to stoke chaos and confusion, all in the service of profit. Being only the second entry in what would become a decades-long franchise, the series is still clearly finding its footing. This particular film feels far more procedural and indebted to Hitchcock than its predecessor, and frankly, I don’t think that’s the right approach for material as inherently flamboyant as a Bond picture. The runtime weighed on me, I won’t lie, and the thin characterization of Bond and everyone around him didn’t help. Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi) is reduced to little more than arm candy, squandering what could have been a genuinely compelling double agent whose feelings for Bond develop in secret. Instead, she falls for him so quickly that it’s nearly impossible to tell when she’s even pretending. Donald “Red” Grant (Robert Shaw) is Bond’s dark mirror, a psychopathic, sexually restrained, chillingly disciplined assassin, which makes it all the more frustrating that he’s largely relegated to skulking in the background before finally confronting Bond in the last twenty minutes. Beyond his introduction, one of the film’s best moments, he does little more than posture. From Russia with Love is a disappointing step down from Dr. No, a film I think genuinely captures the essence of what people love about this series. Despite both being shot by Ted Moore, this feels particularly grounded in its depiction of environments, opting for a far more polished look compared to its predecessor. I’d attribute that stark difference largely to the absence of Ken Adam’s production design more than anything. Where Dr. No reveled in art deco and mid-century modernism, From Russia with Love retreats into enclosed spaces. The Orient Express sequence is a particular standout, feeling closer in spirit to Richard Fleischer’s noir masterpiece The Narrow Margin, though the broader suspense mechanics are unmistakably Hitchcockian. There are things to enjoy, I won’t pretend otherwise, but I find Bond simply isn’t a compelling enough chauvinist caricature to anchor a self-serious espionage picture. I understand Goldfinger steers things back toward what I liked about Dr. No, and I’m very much looking forward to it. ᐅ Watched in 2026 — Ranked (https://boxd.it/RjcIq)
From Russia with Love
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