Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Rating: 60%
James Bond film # 7 and the final film that had Connery's Bond, here's my review for Diamonds Are Forever.

Plot: While Bond is looking for Bolfeld, M assigns him to Amsterdam where M suspects that South African diamonds are being stockpiled to depress prices by dumping. So Bond disguises himself as a professional smuggler named Peter Franks and contacts a diamond smuggler named Tiffany Case. Through her, he tries to find the person that's at the highest of the diamond smuggling business and find out what they're up too.

Now even if this film does manage to be a little enjoyable, it is easily the worst film that has Connery's Bond. Because what helps make this movie still enjoyable is that we have Connery back for at least one more movie with his charm and altogether presence that makes him James Bond and it had pretty good action during the climax of the film especially. But the rest of the film has stuff that's either annoying or a little too silly. With annoying I mostly am talking about the assassins Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint. They may not be the worst characters I ever had to put up with, but just how they acted, how they were trying to be funny and how it looked like they were the main villains of the film for a while that just annoyed the crap out of me and lead me to feel like the Bond franchise has begun to sink with this film. Also there was Tiffany Case as a character. Again, I've seen worse characters, but she did stand out as particularly helpless and kind of an idiot, and apparently she's considered to be least likable Bond girls so it figures that I'm not alone. For silly we have a scene where Bond escapes the enemy in a moom buggy which I didn't think too much about at first, but after hearing some opinions and thinking more about it in retrospect, I can see why people find it really silly. But I also found a car chase from the middle of the film to be kind of silly. I mean it does have Bond doing a somewhat cool trick with his mustang at one point, but otherwise I found most of it to be not all that great and kind of acted more like a car chase you can kind of find from just about any action film from around that time that you could possibly find while you are switching channels on your TV. And that also brings us to the same problem that we encountered from the last film - that this film for the most part lacked gadgets and other aspects of the bond franchise that make James Bond awesome to watch.

And that's my review for Diamonds Are Forever. It has moments of being annoying and silly and not acting a whole lot like a bond film, but we still get Connery even if it's for the last time and it had some action and other aspects of the franchise that makes the movie bearable.