Dr. No

Welcome everyone to James Bond month! A few months back, I saw every one of the James Bond films, so I will be reviewing every single Bond adaptation every day of August. Let's jump right in, shall we? 

Bosley Crowther started his review, "IF you haven't yet made the acquaintance of Ian Fleming's suave detective, James Bond, in the author's fertile series of mystery thrillers akin to the yarns of Mickey Spillane, here's your chance to correct that misfortune in one quick and painless stroke." It's by watching the first movie adaptation of a Fleming novel, "Dr. No." 

This action-packed, entertaining movie, released in 1963, should not be taken seriously as non-fiction or even art, any more than, as Crowther states, "he works of Mr. Fleming are to be taken as long-hair literature. It is strictly a tinseled action-thriller, spiked with a mystery of a sort." If you are able to catch these things, it satires science-fiction and intercourse. 

For the crime-fighting mission that James Bond is put into is completely exaggerated, so clearly improvised, that it is really silly and not to be taken seriously. It is a risky mission of finding out who is controlling a device on the tropical island of Jamaica that "massively interferes" with the critical rocked launchings from Cape Canaveral. 

Crowther said, "Nonsense, you say. Of course, it's nonsense — pure, escapist bunk," with Bond, a suave man, played by Sean Connery, doing everything (and every woman) than a useless day-dreamer wants to do. Called from a casino in London to be assigned his mission (Bernard Lee) and weapons (Peter Burton) and get on his flight to Jamaica before a seductive lady (Eunice Gayson) distracts him, Bond or 007 looks fresh from the start. Crowther noted, "And he keeps on being natty, naughty and nifty to the end." 

It's not the mystery that keeps you engaged, it's what happens on the journey – the attempted capture at the Jamica airport, the tarantula planted in Bond's hotel room, sleeping with Miss Taro (Zena Marshall), and the encounter with the beautiful Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress) on the beach of Crab Key. Everything that is happening so well in the beautiful Jamaica location, looking real and gorgeous in color, that is worth seeing for this first Bond movie. 

The ending, which has our villain, Dr. No, played by Joseph Wiseman, as Crowther said, "being frankly James Masonish in an undersea laboratory that looks like something inspired by Oak Ridge, is a bit too extravagant and silly, and likewise too frantic and long." On the flip side, something silly has to be seen with what ends off this crazy mission. 

This movie has to be seen, especially if you want to start checking out James Bond. The main reason to see this is because of Sean Connery. He is the best actor to have played James Bond, hands down. Everyone puts Ursula Andress as the best Bond Girl, which might be true, because she is amazing in this role. After seeing this movie, you will be going around saying, "The name is Bond, James Bond" and, "I would like a Martini. Shaken, not stirred." Check it out if you haven't, it's a must see movie for everyone. 

Check in tomorrow to see how well Connery does in the rest of the Bond movies he starred in.