This, the Seventh James Bond Film in the Franchise, is Wrought with Fandom Wrath, but some Less Demanding Viewers are more Sympathetic.About as Disappointing as "You Only live Twice" (1967) with the Added Ingredient of Sean Connery returning to the Role after a One Film Holiday, and the Anticipation Factor Ramped Up Big Time.What was Delivered was Tepid Fun with the Emphasis on Fun. Serious Spy Stuff was Abandoned for Over the Top Characters and Routine and Artificial Looking Action.Not Completely a Loser it has some Moments (like the elevator fight and the pre-credit scene) but Overall Things like the "Moon Buggy" are Expensive Junk thrown in like the Lame and Obviously Staged Car Chase on the Downtown Vegas Strip. It Lazily Shows Rows of Spectators along the Street Watching the Filming in Multiple Shots. The Two Wheeled Car Escape is Infamous.Not a Lot to Recommend, but if Your Tolerance for a Whimsical and Light-Hearted Bond is High, have No Fear because this is the Forerunner of the Tacky and Gaudy Films to Follow.The Weight of Previous Box-Office Booty Weighed Heavily on the Hubris of the Producers and They Shamelessly Soured the Integrity of the Character and Produced Painfully Executed Excuses of Mechanized Assembly Line Vehicles one after another with a Few Exceptions, in what seemed like Forever.

That's exactly what this movie is,a disappointment.After the great On Her Majesty's Secret Service,everyone(at the time)was disappointed,there was no Sean Connery!So even though Sean didn't want to return,money convinced him,and,we got Diamonds Are Forever.Let's start with the pros,I like the opening,it does a great job of continuing from the events of the last,you feel genuine anger in Bond,but it ends very anticlimactically.There's also a great fight scene in an elevator,that is very well choreographed.I also like the Bond Girl,she's tough and doesn't take any crap from anyone,and the score is great as usual.It's also cool how this movie makes fun of how pop culture was at the time.My last pro is Blofeld's henchmen Mr.Wint and Mr.Kidd,they're creative villains and are creepy and entertaining to watch.Now,onto the many,many,cons.The tone of this movie is awful,it feels like a bad parody of the franchise and has many unfunny scenes,in fact,most things that happen are just to make lame jokes,the secondary Bond Girl,who's in the movie for like 2 minutes,serves nothing to the plot and is really just there to look pretty and have Connery joke about her name.Speaking of the plot,it's all over the place,and very convoluted.And the action,it's really uninteresting,besides the elevator fight and driving a car on two wheels.Blofeld is not intimidating at all,and quite boring.The last con,Sean Connery,he feels bored,lazy,and too relaxed,which I guess works for the tone,but it is still a bad performance for Sean's standards in the franchise.All in all,Diamonds Are Forever is a disappointing follow up to a great movie in the franchise,although it has a few good scenes and characters,the rest of the movie is unfunny,too campy for Sean Connery's Bond movies,and lacks excitement.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971): Dir: Guy Hamilton / Cast: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Jimmy Dean, Lana Wood: Average 007 James Bond outing. This one regards greed, which is the ambition of every Bond villain. Here we have a useless villain who can duplicate himself as well as present duplicate voice devices so to manipulate his world domination plan further. We also have a couple of devious nerds called Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd who are involved in a defeat so stupid that it warrants ridicule. Director Guy Hamilton made one of the best Bond films with Goldfinger. Here he creates an entertaining film with a diamond smuggling plot but the humour is misguided terribly. Sean Connery returns as agent James Bond after sitting out the previous film. Here Bond is nearly killed several times including cremation and buried alive in a pipe line but he makes a getaway in a moon buggy. Jill St. John is easily the worst and most annoying Bond girl at this point. She isn't sexy and one may wish that she was heaved out a high rise into a pool along with another girl named Plenty O'Toole. Lana Wood portrayed that creatively named death sentence. Did I mention Jimmy Dean as an over the top Presidential type figure who has two hit girls named Bambi and Thumper? Despite the foolishness loyal fans will enjoy the action, glitter and glam of the production. Score: 6 ½ / 10

Firstly, I would like to start by saying that this is my first review. I've never been compelled before, but thought I'd register my disgust with this Bond title.I am a huge Bond fan. Grew up watching them and always find time to re-watch, especially when the latest flick hits the theatres. When I judge a Bond film, there are certain criteria I use to assess. Vehicles, gadgets, villains, girls, comedy, locations, plot, Bond himself and the direction to name a few.Diamonds Are Forever fails on almost everyone of these. The lack of vehicles and gadgets gets to me, but the casting for Blofeld was terrible. For starters, he's not bald, he's not menacing and he's just weak all round. When Sean Connery quit the role after You Only Live Twice, who would have thought we would have seen him back? I, personally liked George Lazenby's performance as Bond and enjoyed OHMSS. But this film was just one too many for Connery, and for me, ruined his legacy somewhat. It only cost the producers a whopping $1.25m for his services. He failed to live up to expectations.Guy Hamilton took the directors chair following; possibly the best Bond film ever in Goldfinger, his work here was awful. The fight scenes looked lazy and the acting was bad. How can Bond, looking for revenge for his wife's murder be so civil with Blofeld following OHMSS? The film started like a revenge mission but then things got friendly.The henchmen Mr Kidd & Mr Wint are by far the worse villains ever on a Bond film and again, the acting is appalling.The plot isn't even interesting. How many more times can Blofeld hold the world ransom? This time, he's doing it with the aid of a diamond-encrusted laser satellite. Considering this is the last time we see Blofeld, there was no explanation or closure to this character. We even get to see the super-villain and mysterious SPECTRE leader in drag. (Shocking) The whole film skimps on action.There are a few saving graces to this film. The locations of Amsterdam and Las Vegas gets the thumb up. The performance of Jimmy Dean as reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte was surprisingly a good casting job. (The only one) The pre-credit scene was good and should have continued in this vein. I score this movie 3 out of 10. It's the worse Bond film by far. Connery should have never come back. Maybe on my next re-watch, I'll skip straight to the Roger Moore legacy.