Bond, James Bond. Enough said.Ursula Andress is really something special. When Ursula strolls out of the ocean in her classic white two-piece bikini singing angelically the morning sun beaming taking off her goggles playing with seashells wet body glistening skin beautiful eyes piercing......equipped with a dagger.....I'm sorry...I forgot what we were talking about again......oh yes, Ursula! Thank you! Ursula Andress is a goddess as Honey Ryder is this classic, visually stunning scene just like the Die Another Day scene with Halle Berry that pays tribute! Connery is the best bond!Doctor No is the intro into the Bond series setting the classic Bond motive for years to come. The new Daniel Craig Bonds 'steered away', like James, from this classic motive foolishly.I love Dr. No! It's intelligent, sexy, cool, slick & charming, like Mr. Bond. It's the 1st Bond & 1 of the better Bonds!Ursula Andress burst on to the big ol' movie screen as hot & as sweet as any woman ever has, ever."Underneath the mango tree my honey and me..."(Many of the Craig Bond Babes aren't so, so ultrasexy like Ursula is in this & Halle is in DAD & it's too bad because Bond is at his best alongside a strong, sexy female lead like Izabella Scorupco in Goldeneye & Michelle in Tomorrow Never Dies, & Sophie in TWINE & all the hot Connery Bond Babes)

Things are relatively low key in Crab Key compared with the elaborate ordnance and eye-popping gadgetry of later films in the series. But, Dr No succeeds at being a straight detective story, pleasingly unselfconscious without hardware-laden formula. Of course it is tongue-in-cheek hokum, but it is fast moving with good momentum. As James Bond, of the secret department of the British Secret Service, Sean Connery plays the elegant playboy spy impeccably. Racing snake figure and panther-lithe movement, he captures the assertiveness of naval Commander turned secret agent with his Navy-like exactness and mien of a cool, suave, womanising agent. The director, Terence Young, prepared Connery very well for the part, coaching him on each aspect of an English gentleman's comportment, diction and accent. The other important role is Fleming's Vice-Admiral - the naval martinet who is loyal to Bond but keeps him at arms length and on his toes.Bernard Lee as 'M' draws attention to the danger of the mission and the man he sends into battle. The stylish bauhaus set design looks very impressive in the large set spaces. The travelogue locations and exotic locales dovetail well too. Other than Casino Royale (2006) and the follow up film From Russia With Love (1963), there isn't any other film in the canon that betters the formulaic elements and the vitality of the James Bond novels. It's a well conceived dose of sheer escapism.

I thought it was a pretty decent film. Although if I din't know James Bond was a mega franchise, I would have never expected that sort of film to be the start to something this big. I find it odd the credits were only like ten seconds at the end. Sean Connery gave off a pretty good performance, although I guess that is not his best film. The first ten minutes really confused me but after that I sort of started to understand what was happening and I was able to enjoy it after that point. My favorite part of the film was the part when it was showing the spider crawling up his body and he was just laying there is stillness waiting for it to get off him before he reacted. I was also surprised it took 50 minutes for the love interest to show up. I would she would have been in the first twenty minutes. Although I did role my eyes at the black guy dying when nobody else did. Or the villain only being in the last fifteen minutes. Overall, I would say a 8.5/10. It kept me entertained and that was what is important for movies of that type.

Aside from the old "tarantula-in-the-bed" routine (hastily thrown in for good measure) and the pretty Miss Taro venomously spitting into Bond's face (applause. applause) after spending the previous hour gleefully rolling around in the sack with him - 1962's "Dr. No" contained absolutely no memorable scenes worth ranting and raving about here. (I'm not kidding!) But, with that aside - This film certainly contained lots and lots of major let-downs! Such as - The bikini-clad Ursula Andress (aka. Honey Ryder) emerging out of the sea. I'm sorry, folks, but this was not... I repeat, "THIS WAS NOT" one of the supposedly sexiest moments ever recorded in the history of film. No, it wasn't.In fact, I thought that this seashell-collecting bimbo, with her tiresome angry pout, put in one of the worst "Bond-girl" performances that I've ever seen.And, how about mad scientist, Dr. No, himself? Boy, I'm tellin' ya - This pompous, effeminate, little snot (though a gracious host) made my skin crawl with his insipid presence and his rubber-gloved hands. To me, Dr. No's character was about as menacing as a wet dishrag with his drab and dreary little "evil" plot of absolute domination of the world. (Spare me!) Instead of offering the viewer death-defying excitement, mixed generously with a stylish pizazz - Dr. No's humdrum story just sort of drifted along aimlessly from scene to scene without much drive or momentum..... Anyway - What more can I say?