Monday, July 11, 2016

Diamonds Are Forever

Diamonds Are Forever, the last official Connery appearance as 007, is incredibly cheesy and stupid, though often fun and more bawdy than other series entries up to that point, with a plot involving some incomprehensible nonsense regarding Blofeld (a worthy portrayal by Charles Gray) supplanting a Howard Hughes type figure in a Vegas high-rise while using diamonds and cassette tapes to set off nuclear missiles.
*** out of ****