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OHMSS has an above average 007 story, the action is good, there are plenty of girls, great locations and the usual one-liners. So what could be wrong with this movie? To put it simply, the acting is terrible in this film.
George Lazenby is a pathetic actor and why Broccoli and Saltzman hired him is beyond comprehension. IMHO Lazenby's biggest problem is that he tries too hard to be Sean Connery and it simply doesn't work. The one-liners sound ridiculous when he says them and the rest of the dialog just sounds like he's simply reading the lines. Fortunately this was his one and only effort at playing 007.
As for the rest of the cast. Telly Savalas is an ok Blofeld, Diana Rigg is a good bond woman, Gabriele Ferzetti does a good job as Draco and the rest of the cast (Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell) do their usual good job. However, I found the girls in Blofeld's "research centre" to be *extremely* annoying. If anything, I think they did as much to ruin this film as Lazenby.
I also think that the wedding from the novel should have been left out of the movie. I think a better way to do it would have been for Blofeld to kill her before he escapes from his hideout during the attack. That way we could have seen Bond fall in love with her and still have her killed. Maybe it then could have ended with Bond informing her father about her death. IMHO the ending as it was filmed simply didn't work. Lazenby did a poor job acting that scene and I think it was out of place in this style of movie.
Anyway, OHMSS is not too bad if you can ignore Lazenby's attempt at 007. I rate it 6/10
OHMSS has an above average 007 story, the action is good, there are plenty of girls, great locations and the usual one-liners. So what could be wrong with this movie? To put it simply, the acting is terrible in this film.
George Lazenby is a pathetic actor and why Broccoli and Saltzman hired him is beyond comprehension. IMHO Lazenby's biggest problem is that he tries too hard to be Sean Connery and it simply doesn't work. The one-liners sound ridiculous when he says them and the rest of the dialog just sounds like he's simply reading the lines. Fortunately this was his one and only effort at playing 007.
As for the rest of the cast. Telly Savalas is an ok Blofeld, Diana Rigg is a good bond woman, Gabriele Ferzetti does a good job as Draco and the rest of the cast (Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell) do their usual good job. However, I found the girls in Blofeld's "research centre" to be *extremely* annoying. If anything, I think they did as much to ruin this film as Lazenby.
I also think that the wedding from the novel should have been left out of the movie. I think a better way to do it would have been for Blofeld to kill her before he escapes from his hideout during the attack. That way we could have seen Bond fall in love with her and still have her killed. Maybe it then could have ended with Bond informing her father about her death. IMHO the ending as it was filmed simply didn't work. Lazenby did a poor job acting that scene and I think it was out of place in this style of movie.
Anyway, OHMSS is not too bad if you can ignore Lazenby's attempt at 007. I rate it 6/10