In this film, everyone suspects that a US space capsule was swallowed up by a Russian spacecraft. Now, it seems that World War III will appear at those moments, especially when the British government suspects that there are other forces working to achieve this. At that moment, the spacecraft crashed near Japan where a ghost appeared to be the force behind theft or destruction.
Whatever else one can say about the Bond films, their mechanical gimmicks run rings round anything offered by most of the other spy and secret agent films.
This noisy and wildly violent picture... is evidently pegged to the notion that nothing succeeds like excess. And because it is shamelessly excessive, it is about a half-hour too long.
EmanuelLevy.Com
November 17, 2012
The fifth Bond film, with Agent 007 in the East, is not as good as the previous ones, but it still offers escapist entertainment.
A major draw was the establishment of Blofeld -- only tantalisingly glimpsed in previous Bonds -- played with malevolent magnificence by Donald Pleasance sporting a painful scar around his eye.
