From Russia with Love

  • PG (AUSTRALIA)
  • 1963


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Positive Reviews 34
Negative reviews 3
Average Rating 3.9/5
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3.0
While the plot gets somewhat obscured in a few rather befuddling dialogue exchanges, the charm of Connery as Bond is strong enough to keep the film mo .. Common Sense Media
1.5
From Russia with Love is a preposterous, skillful slab of hardhitting, sexy hokum. Variety
3.0
The film lacks the exotic, colourful flamboyance of the best of its successors. So shoot me. Time Out
4.0
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4.0
Its one of the franchises highlights, and if the dated action can be forgiven, a cracking cold war story.
3.0
To look back at this exciting action Bond film from over forty years ago, is to see a well accomplished and witty film that has lost its bearings over .. Sover
4.4
This movie isnt just a fun popcorn munching action adventure flick; its a good motion picture by any standards. ReelViews
4.0
Written with enough self consciously campy humor to defuse the paranoid ideologies running rampant here, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE is also acted with tong .. Tv Guide
3.8
More than Dr. No or From Russia With Love, Goldfinger generally feels like a template for the Bond movie formula as the film possess virtually all of .. Reel Film Reviews
4.0
The Bentley of action pics has been digitally restored for another cruise around the block.The stylish second Bond film From Russia With Love now look .. The Times
5.0
It is also one of the most popular Bond movies and a terrific thriller in its own right, owing much to Alfred Hitchcock and Carol Reeds The Third Man .. Radio Times
3.0
In this installment, the villains dont want to take over the world. Emanuellevy
4.0
But FRWL has character and dash, and even something of a conventional plot, all worth revisiting for this pin sharp restoration. Guardian
2.0
The best Raymond Chandler novel is the first one you read (unless by chance you pick up the last of them, Playback) and its probably true of the Bond .. Guardian
4.5
There will always be arguments made over what the best Bond film is, but I truly believe things dont get better than this. Film Inquiry
5.0
The action climaxes in an unbearably tense confrontation between 007 and Grant aboard the Orient Express, one of the finest scenes in the entire Bond .. Bbc
4.0
Doctor No, the first of Flemings novels to be filmed, was shot as a straight thriller, but most spectators took it as a travesty and had a belly laugh .. Time
4.4
Without sacrificing the filmmakers original intent, the transfer presents the decades old film looking good as new. Groucho Reviews
3.0
The story moves too slowly, fattened up with activities that are inconsequential and not action oriented.
5.0
When almost the same complications and much of the action are given pretty honest translation to the screen, the tale goes so wild that this spy melod .. Cleve Land
4.5
This is to say, dont miss it if you can still get the least bit of fun out of lurid adventure fiction and pseudorealistic fantasy. Ny Times
5.0
Its the only Bond adventure that dares you to keep up with a racing narrative of disloyalty and deception doggedly cerebral, mostly bereft of action f .. The Filmy Ap
4.5
One of just a couple Bond adventures that is genuinely great as cinema. Antagony & Ecstasy
4.0
One of the finest Bond outings, this flourished in the paranoia of the times before the franchise was devalued by an over reliance on gadgets, camp qu .. Sky
4.5
For my money, still the best Bond, with a screwball plotline that keeps the locales changing and the surprises coming. Chicago Reader
4.5
With a tight, witty script and unforgettable baddies, this is one of the very best entries in the series, stylishly cementing the formula for good or .. Film4
3.5
The lights come up on a nasty nocturnal exercise and the opening credits are projected onto undulating fleshthe shift from Dr. Nos Caribbean design is .. Cine Passion
3.0
The film differs from the books in its lack of social oneupmanship, for in such a film aimed at a mass audience the chances for it are few and clumsy. Archive Spectator
5.0
Yes, hes a good 007 pecs, trunks, tough, gritty, etc but hes not Connery. Daily Record
4.5
From Russia With Love perfectly threads the needle between art and commerce, showing us everything thats allowed the series to keep on keeping on. Zaki's Corner
4.5
Thats why Bond survives and Grant doesnt because he doesnt anticipate Bonds quick thinking.
4.0
A sad tale indeed) Overall Thoughts: Strange how her hair isnt blowing in the wind almost as if theyre not on an actual speedboat! * hoganreviews.co.uk
4.4
Everything that worked in DR. NO is fully realized here. Sean Connery is 10 times more confident here as 007, oozing charm and masculinity. Film Geek Central
1.5
A comedown from Dr. No, whose brisk parody here slackens into a queasy compromise with the real thing that tries to have it both ways and so fails to .. Esquire Magazine
5.0
With a super confidence which one can only regard as justified, the film ends with an announcement of the next Bond adventure: Goldfinger. Screen Online Org Uk
3.0
Plenty of period charm, though, and a few of the Bond franchises most Austin Powers esque moments. The Sunday Times
4.5
A James Bond movie with the sensibilities of a classic Cold War thriller. Filmcritic.com



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