Thunderball 4K 1965

After the deafening success of the previous film, Goldfinger, the authors wasted no time in writing the script. The script turned out to be very original indeed: terrorists hijack a British Vulcan bomber carrying two nuclear missiles and hide them underwater near the Bahamas. James Bond has to find these missing missiles within 48 hours, otherwise London or any other capital city will be burned to the ground.

It must be said that at that time there was nothing like this, and there were no plans for anything like this for the next 10 years. The visual effects were the best at the time. Although Thunderball is good in every way, the film is too long. The underwater battles are spectacular, but there are so many of them and they are so long that by the end of the film you start to get tired of the special effects and bubbles.

In the 1960s, Italian and French films were in vogue, so the casting was very relevant and almost perfect. The beautiful Claudine Auger, the villain Adolfo Celi, the cunning Luciana Pallucci... But the main thing, of course, is the great and terrible Sean Connery, who almost won an Oscar for his performance in this film. After all, he is the most charismatic, and what's more, he is the best Bond.

The first spectacular and large-scale film in this series blew up cinemas and grossed huge box office receipts (deservedly so!), and from a technological point of view, the film was a success, as it was the first wide-screen Bond film.