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Review MGM Entertainment / James Bond Ultimate Collection - Vol. 3 - From Russia With Love/On Her Majesty's Secret Service/Live And Let Die/For Your Eyes Only/Goldeneye
Actors & Directors
  • Peter R. Hunt
  • Sean Connery
  • Guy Hamilton
  • Jane Seymour
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • Terence Young
  • Sean Bean
  • John Glen
  • Martin Campbell
  • Yaphet Kotto
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 607 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £27.87

Review James Bond Ultimate Collection - Vol. 3 - From Russia With Love/On Her Majesty's Secret Service/Live And Let Die/For Your Eyes Only/Goldeneye / MGM Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / James Bond Ultimate Collection - Vol. 2 - Thunderball/The Spy Who Loved Me/A View To A Kill/Licence To Kill/Die Another Day
Actors & Directors
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • Lewis Gilbert
  • Halle Berry
  • Terence Young
  • Timothy Dalton
  • Robert Duvall
  • Sean Connery
  • Lee Tamahori
  • John Glen
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 625 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £27.89

Review James Bond Ultimate Collection - Vol. 2 - Thunderball/The Spy Who Loved Me/A View To A Kill/Licence To Kill/Die Another Day / MGM Entertainment:


Review MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) / You Only Live Twice [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Mie Hama
  • Sean Connery
  • Akiko Wakabayashi
  • Tetsuro Tamba
  • Teru Shimada
  • Lewis Gilbert (II)
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.99

Review You Only Live Twice [1967] / MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer):

The film boasts the best of the Bond title songs (this one sung on a dreamy track by Nancy Sinatra), but the movie itself is one of the weaker ones of the Sean Connery phase of the 007 franchise. The story concerns an effort by the evil organisation SPECTRE to start a world war, but the not-so-super villain behind the plot is the awfully civilised Donald Pleasence. The thin script is by Roald Dahl (shouldn't we have expected a better Bond nemesis from the creator of mad genius Willy Wonka?), and direction is by British veteran Lewis Gilbert (Alfie). But the movie can't hold a candle to Dr. No, From Russia with Love, or Goldfinger. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. comOn the DVD: This was another troubled production according to the insightful "making of" documentary: director and producers luckily avoided boarding a plane out of Tokyo that crashed and killed everyone on board; the Japanese actresses couldn't speak English and one threatened suicide if she was dropped from the part; and the aerial cameraman filming the helicopter fight had his leg sliced off by a rotor blade. Maurice Binder's evocative main title designs are the subject of the second documentary, "Silhouettes", in which his colleagues voiceboth their admiration of his art and frustration at his chaotic working practices. The commentary is another edited selection of interviews with principal cast and crew. An animated storyboard sequence, trailers, radio spots and a handsome booklet add up to another winning entry in this series. [+]
-Mark Walker.

Review MGM Entertainment / The World Is Not Enough [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Apted
  • Robbie Coltrane
  • Robert Carlyle
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • Sophie Marceau
  • Denise Richards
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 123 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.02

Review The World Is Not Enough [1999] / MGM Entertainment:

In his 19th screen outing The World is Not Enough, Ian Fleming's super-spy is once again caught in the crosshairs of a self-created dilemma: as the longest-running feature-film franchise, James Bond is an annuity his producers want to protect, yet the series' consciously formulaic approach frustrates any real element of surprise beyond the rote application of plot twists or jump cuts to shake up the audience. This time out, credit 007's caretakers for making some visible attempts to invest their principal characters with darker motives-and blame them for squandering The World is Not Enough's initial promise by the final reel. By now, Bond pictures are as elegantly formal as a Bach chorale, and this one opens on an unusually powerful note. A stunning pre-title sequence reaches beyond mere pyrotechnics to introduce key plot elements as the action leaps from Bilbao to London. Pierce Brosnan undercuts his usually suave persona with a darker, more brutal edge largely absent since Sean Connery departed. Equally tantalising are our initial glimpses of Bond's nemesis du jour, Renard (Robert Carlyle), and imminent love interest, Elektra King (Sophie Marceau), both atypically complex characters cast with seemingly shrewd choices and directed by the capable Michael Apted. The story's focus on post-Soviet geopolitics likewise starts off on a savvy note, before being overtaken by increasingly Byzantine plot twists, hidden motives and reversals of loyalty superheated by relentless (if intermittently perfunctory) action sequences. Bond's grimmer demeanour, while preferable to the smirk that eventually swallowed Roger Moore whole, proves wearying, unrelieved by any true wit. The underlying psychoses that propel Renard and Elektra eventually unravel into unconvincing melodrama, while Bond is supplied with a secondary love object, Denise Richards, who is even more improbable as a nuclear physicist. Ultimately, this world is not enough despite its better intentions. [+]
-Sam Sutherland, Amazon. com On the DVD: There are three different documentaries on this disc, as well as a "Secrets of 007" featurette that cuts between specific stunt sequences, behind-the-scenes footage and storyboards to reveal how it was all done, and a short video tribute to Desmond Llewelyn ("Q"), who died not long after this movie was released. The first "making of" piece is presented by an annoyingly chirpy American woman and is aimed squarely at the MTV market (most fascinating is watching her interview with Denise Richards in which the two orthodontically enhanced ladies attempt to out-smile each other). "Bond Cocktail" gamely distils all the essential ingredients that make up the classic Bond movie formula-gadgets, girls, exotic locations and lots of action. Most interesting of all is "Bond Down River", a lengthy dissection of the opening boat chase sequence. Director Michael Apted provides the first commentary, and talks about the challenges of delivering all the requisite ingredients. The second commentary is less satisfactory, since second unit director Vic Armstrong, production designer Peter Lamont and composer David Arnold have little in common. There's also the Garbage song video, and the booklet has yet more behind-the-scenes info. The anamorphic CinemaScope picture and Dolby digital sound are as spectacular as ever. -Mark Walker.

Review MGM Entertainment / James Bond Ultimate Roger Moore - Live And Let Die/The Man With The Golden Gun/The Spy Who Loved Me/Moonraker/For Your Eyes Only/Octopussy/A View To A Kill
Actors & Directors
  • John Glen
  • Roger Moore
  • Louis Jourdan
  • Guy Hamilton
  • Lewis Gilbert
  • Desmond Llewelyn
  • Carole Bouquet
  • Topol
Release date: 2006-11-27
Run time: 850 min.
RRP: £49.99
Price: £34.99

Review James Bond Ultimate Roger Moore - Live And Let Die/The Man With The Golden Gun/The Spy Who Loved Me/Moonraker/For Your Eyes Only/Octopussy/A View To A Kill / MGM Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Lotte Lenya
  • Bernard Lee
  • Terence Young
  • Sean Connery
  • Robert Shaw
  • Lois Maxwell
Release date: 2008-10-20
RRP: £22.99
Price: £16.98

Review From Russia With Love [Blu-ray] [1963] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. / James Bond - Licence to Kill (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Davi
  • Timothy Dalton
  • Anthony Zerbe
  • Talisa Soto
  • Carey Lowell
Release date: 2006-07-17
Run time: 127 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.21

Review James Bond - Licence to Kill (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1989] / Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.:


Review MGM Entertainment / Licence to Kill [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Talisa Soto
  • Carey Lowell
  • Anthony Zerbe
  • John Glen (II)
  • Timothy Dalton
  • Robert Davi
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 127 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.99

Review Licence to Kill [1989] / MGM Entertainment:

Timothy Dalton's second and last James Bond assignment in Licence to Kill is darker and harder-edged than anything from the Roger Moore years, dropping the sometimes excruciating in-jokes that had begun to dominate the series in favour of gritty, semi-realistic action. When CIA colleague and close friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison) gets married immediately after arresting villainous drug baron Franz Sanchez (with a little help from Bond), the crime lord's retribution is swift and terrible. Bond goes on a personal vendetta against Sanchez after his licence to kill is revoked. There are plenty of spectacular stunt scenes, of course, but the meaty story of revenge is this film's distinguishing feature. Dalton's portrayal of the iconic hero as tough but flawed was a brave decision that the producers subsequently retreated from after Licence to Kill's relatively poor box-office showing. On the DVD: Timothy Dalton's insistence that Bond was a man not a superhero, and "a tarnished man" at that encouraged the producers to redefine Bond with a tougher edge more in keeping with Fleming's original conception of the character. Licence to Kill is Bond's darkest assignment. The production team experienced their usual difficulties in bringing it to the screen, the "making-of" documentary reveals, including a haunted road in Mexico and a mysterious flaming hand that appeared out of the fire during the climactic tanker explosion. There are two commentaries here, both montage selections of interviews from cast and crew. The first features director John Glen and many of the actors; the second has producer Michael G Wilson and the production team. [+]
Gladys Knight pops up in the first music video, Patte La Belle in the second ("If You Asked Me To"). There are the usual trailers, gallery of stills and a feature on the Kenworth trucks specially adapted for the movie's stunt work. -Mark Walker.

Review MGM Entertainment / James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 4 - Dr. No/You Only Live Twice/Moonraker/Octopussy/Tomorrow Never Dies
Actors & Directors
  • Sean Connery
  • Michelle Yeoh
  • Roger Spottiswoode
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • Maud Adams
  • John Glen
  • Lewis Gilbert
  • Teri Hatcher
  • Terence Young
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 579 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £27.76

Review James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 4 - Dr. No/You Only Live Twice/Moonraker/Octopussy/Tomorrow Never Dies / MGM Entertainment:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Casino Royale [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Claudio Santamaria
  • Jeffrey Wright
  • Martin Campbell
  • Daniel Craig
  • Jesper Christensen
  • Judi Dench
Release date: 2007-03-19
Run time: 144 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.43

Review Casino Royale [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / James Bond Ultimate Collection - Vol. 1 - Goldfinger/Diamonds Are Forever/The Man With The Golden Gun/The Living Daylights/The World Is Not Enough
Actors & Directors
  • Timothy Dalton
  • Maud Adams
  • Guy Hamilton
  • Maryam D'Abo
  • Art Malik
  • John Glen
  • Sean Connery
  • Michael Apted
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 593 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £27.91

Review James Bond Ultimate Collection - Vol. 1 - Goldfinger/Diamonds Are Forever/The Man With The Golden Gun/The Living Daylights/The World Is Not Enough / MGM Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Peter Sellers Collection - Pink Panther/What's New Pussycat?/The Party/Casino Royale/After The Fox/The World Of Henry Orient
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Bosley
  • John Huston
  • Val Guest
  • Vittorio De Sica
  • Victor Mature
  • Clive Donner
  • Britt Ekland
  • Blake Edwards
  • Peter Sellers
  • Angela Lansbury
Release date: 2006-12-04
Run time: 641 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £16.90

Review Peter Sellers Collection - Pink Panther/What's New Pussycat?/The Party/Casino Royale/After The Fox/The World Of Henry Orient / MGM Entertainment:


Review Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. / James Bond - The Man With The Golden Gun (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Lee
  • Clifton James
  • Britt Ekland
  • Roger Moore
  • Maud Adams
  • Guy Hamilton
Release date: 2006-07-17
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.70

Review James Bond - The Man With The Golden Gun (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1974] / Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.:


Review Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. / James Bond - Octopussy (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • John Glen
  • Maud Adams
  • Roger Moore
  • Louis Jourdan
  • Kabir Bedi
Release date: 2006-07-17
Run time: 126 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.93

Review James Bond - Octopussy (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1983] / Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.:


Review MGM Entertainment / View to a Kill [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • John Glen (II)
  • Roger Moore
  • Grace Jones
  • Tanya Roberts
  • Christopher Walken
  • Patrick Macnee
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 126 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £29.99

Review View to a Kill [1985] / MGM Entertainment:

Roger Moore's last outing as James Bond is evidence enough that it was time to pass the torch to another actor. Beset by crummy action (an out-of-control fire engine?) and featuring a fading Moore still trying to prop up his mannered idea of style, the Film is largely interesting for Christopher Walken's quirky performance as a sort-of supervillain who wants to take out California's Silicon Valley. Grace Jones has a spookily interesting presence as a lethal associate of Walken's (in the best Bond tradition, she has sex with 007 before trying to kill him later) and Patrick Macnee (Steed!) has a warm if brief bit. Even directed by John Glen, who brought some crackle to the Moore years in the Bond franchise, A View to a Kill is a very slight effort. -Tom Keogh A View to a Kill, Roger Moore's last outing as James Bond, is evidence enough that it was time to pass the torch to another actor. Beset by crummy action (an out-of-control fire engine?) and featuring a fading Moore still trying to prop up his mannered idea of style, A View to a Kill is largely interesting for Christopher Walken's quirky performance as a sort-of super-villain who wants to take out California's Silicon Valley. Grace Jones has a spookily interesting presence as a lethal associate of Walken's (and who, in the best Bond tradition, has sex with 007 before trying to kill him later), and Patrick Macnee (Steed!) has a warm if brief bit. Even directed by John Glen, who brought some crackle to the Moore years in the Bond franchise, this is a very slight effort. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com On the DVD: For Roger Moore's final Bond outing the production crew faced the usual quota of difficulties and disasters, the "making-of" documentary reveals: from base jumpers off the Eiffel tower whose antics threatened to jeopardise fragile relations with the Parisian authorities, to Ridley Scott thoughtlessly burning down the 007 at Pinewood right before production was due to start. [+]
Patrick MacNee, who has a supporting role in the movie, hands over narrative duties on this one to Rosemary Ford. The commentary is one of those less-than-satisfying montages of comments from various members of cast and crew. Also included is Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill" video (sounding hopelessly dated now), the usual trailers and a brief deleted scene of comic relief inside a Parisian police station. The second documentary concerns the music of Bond-always a crucial ingredient-although it manages the neat diplomatic trick of interviewing both Monty Norman and John Barry without giving the least hint of any controversy about the famous James Bond theme. -Mark Walker.

Review MGM Entertainment / Goldeneye [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Tcheky Karyo
  • Michael Kitchen
  • Martin Campbell
  • Gottfried John
  • Desmond Llewelyn
  • Pierce Brosnan
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 124 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.99

Review Goldeneye [1995] / MGM Entertainment:

Pierce Brosnan assumed the role of James Bond for the first time in Goldeneye, the 17th entry in the series. Brosnan looks a little light on the big screen under any circumstances, and he does take some getting used to as 007. But this busy film keeps him hopping as freelance terrorists from the former Soviet Union get their hands on super-high-tech weapons. The film's challenge is to bring free-spirited Bond up to date in the age of AIDS and in the aftermath of the cold war: director Martin Campbell (The Mask of Zorro) succeeds on both counts with a cheeky hint of irony. The best moment in the film is a chase scene that finds Bond tearing up the streets of Moscow in a tank. But Brosnan's most interesting contributions are reminiscent of the dark streak that occasionally showed up in Sean Connery's Bond. -Tom Keogh.

Review Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. / James Bond - Live and Let Die (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Guy Hamilton
  • Clifton James
  • Bernard Lee
  • Jane Seymour
  • Yaphet Kotto
  • Roger Moore
Release date: 2006-07-17
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.28

Review James Bond - Live and Let Die (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1973] / Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.:


Review Mgm Home Ent.(Europe) Ltd. / James Bond - You Only Live Twice (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Gray
  • Lewis Gilbert
  • Sean Connery
  • Akiko Wakabayashi
  • Lois Maxwell
  • Donald Pleasence
Release date: 2006-07-17
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.78

Review James Bond - You Only Live Twice (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1967] / Mgm Home Ent.(Europe) Ltd.:


Review MGM Entertainment / The Spy Who Loved Me [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Barbara Bach
  • Caroline Munro
  • Richard Kiel
  • Roger Moore
  • Curd Jürgens
  • Lewis Gilbert (II)
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £18.97

Review The Spy Who Loved Me [1977] / MGM Entertainment:

The best of the James Bond adventures starring Roger Moore as tuxedoed Agent 007, this globe-trotting thriller introduced the steel-toothed Jaws (played by seven-foot-two-inch-tall actor Richard Kiel) as one of the most memorable and indestructible Bond villains. Jaws is so tenacious that Moore looks genuinely frightened, which adds to the abundant fun. This time Bond teams up with yet another lovely Russian agent (Barbara Bach) to track a pair of nuclear submarines that the nefarious Stromberg (Curt Jürgens) plans to use in his plot to start World War III. Featuring lavish sets designed by the great Ken Adam (Dr. Strangelove), The Spy Who Loved Me is a galaxy away from the suave Sean Connery exploits of the 1960s, but the film works perfectly as grandiose entertainment. From cavernous undersea lairs to the vast horizons of Egypt, this Bond thriller keeps its tongue firmly in its cheek with a plot tailor-made for daredevil escapism. -Jeff Shannon On the DVD: The main extra feature here is another in the excellent series of new "making of" documentaries that adorn these Bond DVDs. Here, everything from the painful and protracted gestation of the movie to the building of the massive 007 Stage at Pinewood is chronicled. Also included is an appreciation of and interview with gifted production designer Ken Adam, the man responsible for the extravagantly grand look of all the Bond movies. The commentary track features Adam alongside director Lewis Gilbert and co-producer Michael Wilson, who is instrumental in encouraging Gilbert and Adam to explain and reminisce as the movie unfolds. [+]
Trailers and stills and a glossy booklet complete an attractive DVD presentation. -Mark Walker.

Review MGM Entertainment / James Bond - Diamonds Are Forever (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Jill St. John
  • Guy Hamilton
  • Bruce Cabot
  • Lana Wood
  • Charles Gray
  • Sean Connery
Release date: 2006-07-17
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.10

Review James Bond - Diamonds Are Forever (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) [1971] / MGM Entertainment:


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