Third time's a charm. And that's just the case with this film. Goldfinger is the definitive Bond film: an imaginative (and necessarily over the top) plot, a great title song and score, rich settings, interesting girls (come on, when will you ever come across a girl named Pussy Galore?), entertaining villains (both Mr. Goldfinger and his muscle man, Oddjob), and who else but Sean Connery as 007.
The plot is silly in an entertaining sort of way: Goldfinger decides to rob Fort Knox, but instead of taking the gold reserve, he would rather destroy it, so that his own gold would appreciate in value (talk about economics and incentives...). Bond slowly catches on to this bigger plot as he is sent to investigate Goldfinger's other shady albeit smaller-in-ambition deals in Europe.
On the "technical" side, some of the action scenes are truly memorable, e.g. Bond ejecting his fellow passenger from his Aston Martin, or fighting on a plane at high altitude. The film looks and feels entertainingly ambitious, and it's the first demonstration of the complete Bond formula that was born in Dr. No and shaped by From Russia With Love. Not much more needs to be said - this is Bond, James Bond.
8/10
The plot is silly in an entertaining sort of way: Goldfinger decides to rob Fort Knox, but instead of taking the gold reserve, he would rather destroy it, so that his own gold would appreciate in value (talk about economics and incentives...). Bond slowly catches on to this bigger plot as he is sent to investigate Goldfinger's other shady albeit smaller-in-ambition deals in Europe.
On the "technical" side, some of the action scenes are truly memorable, e.g. Bond ejecting his fellow passenger from his Aston Martin, or fighting on a plane at high altitude. The film looks and feels entertainingly ambitious, and it's the first demonstration of the complete Bond formula that was born in Dr. No and shaped by From Russia With Love. Not much more needs to be said - this is Bond, James Bond.
8/10
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