Synopsis
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
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Cast
- Sean ConneryJames Bond
- Claudine AugerDominique 'Domino' Derval
- Adolfo CeliEmilio Largo
- Luciana PaluzziFiona Volpe
- Rik Van NutterFelix Leiter
- Guy DolemanCount Lippe
- Molly PetersPatricia Fearing
- Martine BeswickPaula Caplan
- Bernard LeeM
- Desmond LlewelynQ
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
[Bond] also has a much better sense of humor than he has shown in his previous films. And this is the secret ingredient that makes Thunderball the best of the lot. - 80
Variety
Terence Young takes advantage of every situation in his direction to maintain action at fever-pitch. - 80
Time Out London
Sleek and quite fun all the same, with SPECTRE holding the world to ransom after stealing a couple of nuclear bombs, Bond almost getting his in the villain's shark-infested swimming pool, and a cleverly choreographed underwater battle to provide the icing on the mix. - 80
Time
Though From Russia with Love remains the liveliest Bond opera to date, Thunderball is by all odds the most spectacular. Its script hasn't a morsel of genuine wit, but Bond fans, who are preconditioned to roll in the aisles when their hero merely asks a waiter to bring some beluga caviar and Dom Pérignon '55, will probably never notice. - 75
ReelViews
The underwater sequences, which are choreographed and directed with great skill, are Thunderball's standout feature... Thunderball is classic 007 -- not the best picture in the long-running series, to be sure, but a more-than-worthwhile diversion for the action-loving escapist in us all. - 60
Empire
Connery [is] cruising by this point and the movie doesn't quite match the swagger of Goldfinger, but still effortlessly plies the glory Bond years, concluding with a stunning underwater battle. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
The action is reasonably well-staged, but the film is overlong and occasionally draggy. - 60
The New Yorker
Not bad, but not quite top-grade Bond. A little too much under-water war-ballet.
