Expected more

Absolutely Brilliant!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I wanted to watch the 1962 James Bond film "Dr. No." The link for "Watch Now" is, instead, to an 11-minute video on the making of the film. At best, this is an error. At worst, this is bait-and-switch.

I'm watching a few James Bond movies for a term paper I'm writing about Spy Fiction and since Dr. No marks the beginning of the most influential espionage movie franchise in history it was definitely a must see for me. I was not impressed, to say the least.First of all I'm not a James Bond fan. I'm not much of an action movie fan either, but once in a while I watch one and there's a few I like, so it's not that I am completely opposed to the genre, but take my review with a grain of salt.If you're a fan of James Bond movies in general, this is your movie. It's the normal Bond formula with several pretty girls by his side, an investigation with some action that sooner or later leads to the villain and then the defeat of said villain. If that's your thing, totally do consider this movie. It is great if you can turn off your brain for two hours and just want to be entertained. If you can't do that, don't pick up this movie. If you expect something deep James Bond just isn't your thing and that's completely fine. Different people have different tastes. I for one don't really like it.I guess I can handle the weird decisions such as Bond breaking into the air vent in his prison cell with a shoe but somehow that air vent also connects to a water pipe (I feel like I totally missed something here, someone please explain that scene to me), but what really destroyed my enjoyment was the Bond girl Honey Ryder.Bond usually has several love interests just like in this movie. I don't like it, but fine, I don't expect much. That's just James Bond and I bet a lot of people enjoy this and that's cool. But Honey Ryder... She's special. Special because she's somehow really stupid. She talks in this little girl way that made me uncomfortable throughout the whole movie and she's depicted as not much more than that. A naive little girl in the body of a hot blonde (I actually found out through my research that they chose the actress pretty much because the one they actually wanted to use wasn't "voluptuous" enough on screen). There's several instances where they show her as explicitly being stupid and honestly I couldn't look past this and I really can't understand why so many people see her as the best Bond girl when we get girls with actual agency like Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale from 2006. When Honey gets taken away by Dr. No's guards she is wearing pants. Later when Bond rescues her she's only in her bikini panties. I don't want to think about those implications to be honest.

The bond film to start all bond films. "Dr. No" is the type of spy film that you just cannot dislike, because the cleverness will cloud any doubt. Sean Connery kicks off the series with a bang, creating an atmosphere that I loved to death. This film is about agent OO7 and his assignment where he is sent across country where he comes into contact with an evil doctor. This plot is not wholly original nowadays, but for it's time, it is unbeatable. "Dr. No" boasts fantastic acting, a great script, and some pretty intense scenes. There was never a dull moment in this film, or any moment for that matter that made me bored. This film is well paced and the pay-off is excellent. This James Bond film is not one to miss!

Connery's first effort operating with his infamous ¨Licence to Kill¨, Bond goes after the fiends , this time his main enemy results to be the megalomaniac Dr. No . The picture contains comic-strip adventure , sensational pursuits , silly set pieces , great stunts , tongue-in check humor , frantic unstopped action , amazing gimmicks and stimulating images like are the spectacular chases , the overwhelming scenes , and the breathtaking fights . The resourceful , handsome and virile British government agent James Bond (an excellent , as usual, Sean Connery) on loose seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a partner and the disruption of the American space program by a weird Chinese scientific (Joseph Wiseman) . Seeking revenge for the death of an operative Bond discovers a mad scientist is sabotaging rockets launching from his hideout in the exotic Jamaica . Bond helped by a CIA agent (Jack Lord) and a native agent (John Kitzmiller) undertakes a dangerous assignment in a strange island run by a diabolic villain from Spectra , (a criminal organization formed by the greatest criminal minds around the world) .This solid , slick thriller contains standard humor , magic mix of action-packed , dazzling stunts , gadgetry , and romance provided by sexy company , Ursula Andress as the gorgeous Honey Ryder ; this film promptly made big stars of him and Ursula . Lots of exciting escapes but not an over-reliance on the gadgets of the later movies . Sean Connery as James Bond is very fine , he does remarkably well , he has toughness , irony , humor and sympathy ; however , he also has coldness , cunning , intelligence and roughness . Sean Connery said that this movie was his personal favorite out of the Bond films he did . Here Bond is an efficient , agile , sardonic , relentless agent trying to chase obstinately a criminal mastermind traveling around the world , this time is mostly set in Jamaica . Bond to achieve his aims , along the way uses violent means , pulling off brutal killings against enemies who wreak all sorts of havoc . As always Bond will use "state of the art" and fantastic gadgets while the Spectre organization goes after him . The action-packed includes : impressive car chase scenes , shootouts , and Bond attacked by a fire-thrower vehicle , tickled by a tarantula , James grilled by some electric fencing , swamped by seawater and nearly atomised in a nuclear pile . This first 007 movie is far less spectacular and glitzy than any its successors , but the action moves swiftly enough to cover the holes in the screenplay written by Richard Maibaum . Dr. No¨ boasts one of the sexiest and most delectable ¨Bond Girls¨ of them in Andress who stunningly walks out of the waves in a white bikini . Other Bond girls here appearing are Zena Marshall and Eunice Gayson . Furthermore , a lot of notorious secondaries as Anthony Dawson , Bernard Lee as M and Lois Maxwell as MoneyPenny .Lavishly produced by the regular producers , Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman , they didn't want James Bond's main enemy to be Russian , so for the film version his nemesis is the fictitious criminal organization Spectre . Riveting and fancy main titles by habitual Maurice Binder ; furthermore , eye-popping production design by Ken Adam and Syd Cain . Unforgettable musical score with immortal and catching leitmotif by Monty Norman and John Barry . It's brimming with colorful and fascinating cinematography by cameraman Ted Moore . Evocative photography , much of the film was shot on location , with only a bare minimum of back projection used ; something quite unusual for a film of 1962 . The motion picture was well directed by Terence Young and followed by ¨From Russia with love¨ whose budget was $2,000,000 , double that of ¨Doctor No¨ . Young was author of three best James Bond films : ¨Dr No¨ , ¨Thunderball¨ and ¨From Russia with love¨ and directed to Audrey Hepburn in a good thriller titled ¨Wait until dark¨ and a failed film titled ¨Bloodline¨.