jordansepticeye This movie is exactly how I said it.This movie is written by Roald Dahl,the writer of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,which I thought was pretty cool.The action and set pieces are great and done well.Well not as good as before,Sean Connery still is pretty good and Donald Pleasence is good as Blofeld.The story is good,and no scene is ever truly boring.As for negatives,the pacing isn't very good,some sections are fast paced and exciting,while other sections are very slow.I also the characters all felt pretty generic,except for Q of course.The Bond Girl is pretty weak as well.If this was Sean Connery's last like it was planned to be,I don't think it would've been that of a finale.You Only Live Twice is a fun,although flawed movie.

Filipe Neto Directed by Lewis Gilbert, produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli and with a screenplay by Roald Dahl, this is the fifth 007 franchise film, who reached, after "Thunderball", a huge peak of popularity. As in previous films, this movie adapts the characters created by Ian Fleming to an issue or problem of the current time, in this case the space conquest, held by US and Soviet Union, and the danger of Cold War, skillfully exploited in the film.In this film, the English agent is in charge of investigating the disappearance of an American spacecraft, apparently abducted by another vessel that re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the Sea of ​​Japan. In the country of the rising sun, it will collaborate with local intelligence to investigate a chemical industry, concluding that is linked to SPECTRE, an association that he already knows very well. However, disappears another spacecraft, this time belonging to the Soviets, which increases the tension between the two countries. In order to investigate under-covered, Bond will need to take on a second life and identity, infiltrating among the people to discover the enemy base and fulfill his mission.The film has the usual Bond recipe: exotic locations, beautiful women, lots of action and strange and expensive machines. One of the most famous is Little Nelly, a small collapsible helicopter, armed with several gadget's whose Bond uses against his enemies. One of the most popular and iconic scenes is the apparent death and maritime funeral of Bond, an act of MI6 to give more freedom of action to their agent, whose body is quickly rescued by a submarine. Other notable scene are the abduction of each space vessel (US and Russia), swallowed by the larger SPECTRE's ship. In this film, for the first time, we see the face behind this powerful criminal organization: Ernest Stavro Blofeld, with his famous white cat. This film is also the first where James Bond gets married, although the marriage was part of his disguise. The agent, one of the most famous womanizer's in cinema, will only marry again (this time for real) in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".This film has inherited from the previous its central cast, who plays not only Bond but the characters M, Q, and Monneypenny. To the actors who embodied these characters will join Akiko Wakabayashi (in the role of Bond-girl Aki) and Mie Hama (in the role of another bond-girl, Kissy, with which Bond marries); Donald Pleasence incarnated Blofeld, the villain and Tetsuro Tamba played the chief of the Japanese espionage, Tanaka.

tomasg-69814 By 1967 James Bond were "bigger than Jesus" on screen, to use a well known phrase from John Lennon, himself peaking his Beatle career with Sgt. Pepper the same year. Sean Connery had developed his 007 character to the fullest, and started to feel some boredom in the series, according to later interviews. But the Bond-machine itself was in top gears, now building multi-million dollar stages to simulate volcanoes and other things. This fifth movie in the James Bond series is better than the precursor, by thin margin, and was for sure an entertaining continuation for the already blessed 007-fans. This movie was the end of the era I use to call JB Mk.I. (62-67.) No strings attached, by the release of You Only Live Twice the production team delivered a well remembered movie. Many classic scenes and a good intrigue, with a bombastic final. But what would the future hold for a restless MI6-agent? By then I think none was prepared of what to come up on screen in a few years.....

Owen Ogletree This film, in my opinion, is a big improvement over the decent but hugely disappointing "Thunderball." Known to be the film that "Austin Powers" has parodied the most, this film is quite a thrill ride.The production sets were magnificent. The scenery in Japan and Spectre's volcano lair were absolutely breathtaking. Director Lewis Gilbert really has a thing for epic set designs. John Barry's music score is some of the best he has ever done and just really adds to the whole thing.Another stand-out is that Bond finally comes face to face with Blofeld, who is played in a chilling performance by Donald Pleasence. In my mind, he is easily the best Blofeld. Sean Connery is great as usual, although it really does show that he was getting tired of the role at this point.The action scenes were nothing short of spectacular, with the best being the Little Nellie chase scene and the climax in the Spectre lair. Add to that an atmospheric, romantic theme song by Nancy Sinatra and you have a fun movie all around.The only thing that drags it down is the 30 minutes spent on making Bond Japanese; it felt quite perfunctory. Also, the Bond girls were a tad on the weak side.Other than that, I can't complain. This is a fun, exciting, and explosively entertaining adventure that remains one of my personal favorite James Bond films.RATING: A-