Thunderball 4K 1965 Ultra HD 2160p

Storyline
James Bond continues on his fourth mission, with his aim to recover 2 stolen warheads. They've been taken by the SPECTRE organisation, and the world's held hostage as Bond heads to Nassau, Bahamas. Here, he meets Domino and is forced into a thrilling confrontation with SPECTRE agent Emil Largo on-board his boat, the Disco Volante.

User Review

The popularity of Agent 007 was easy to predict. In the days of classic acting and weak special effects, it was up to the director alone to decide whether a worthwhile idea would result in a worthwhile film. The image of James Bond (the golden goose of British cinema) is the perfect puppet in the hands of the creators of the great epic about secret agents, underground hideouts, and men driven by an unhealthy desire to pet cats. Bond is smart, handsome, gallant, quick-witted, strong, and fights with the help of futuristic gadgets... in short, the only thing that distinguishes him from Batman is that he is officially in the service of the government.

His name is Bond. James Bond. And his secrecy has long been fiction. But he's still first in line for secret missions. Like here. The bad guys steal a bomber with nuclear missiles and demand fabulous sums of money from the good guys, threatening to create a new Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We urgently need to find the place where the bad guys are hiding their boom-boxes. And Bond, being a smart adult, has his own guesses involving a sanatorium, beaches, girls, and carnivals. It's so great that the nuclear threat isn't kept in some deserted, snow-covered Antarctic, where there isn't a single decent woman without hair on her legs (the cold isn't a lady) or a pleasant landscape for 200 kilometers, and you can't even watch the sunset properly because of the polar night/day. So thank you to the terrorists for Nassau. There, you don't even have to worry about baring your hairy chest in public.

When Bondiana gained some kind of cult status, the creators finally mustered up enough courage to spend money on an epic in a film where this epic looks, at the very least, wild. The final harpoon battle between the underwater armies of good and evil is such a surreal scene that it surely inspired Monty Python's Flying Circus to create a couple of sparkling sketches. But the narrative went on for almost two hours before that. Two hours of dialogue, minor skirmishes, and underwater landscapes in the best traditions of Cousteau. And everywhere James Bond manages to dominate, whether it's a gangster sitting in ambush in a bathroom, enemy territory overflowing with extremely inattentive guards, a sudden dance with a stranger, or eating breakfast under the hot tropical sun. It seems that if given the opportunity, he could even seduce macaroni, and then abandon it without calling. He still has fantastic perks, thanks to which the first bullet in the main character always hits the milk, and a conversation with a woman has a high chance of accidentally turning into sex, regardless of whether someone tried to kill the agent three minutes ago or there were other non-romantic situations. A pool with sharks, for example (the achievement for deceiving the shark is unlocked). The gallant Bond is played here, as before, by Sean Connery. A man who, because of his Scottish homeland, was initially very disliked by Fleming, who legitimately saw Agent 007 as the quintessential English gentleman. And this time he even appeared in the opening credits. Sean is still young, handsome, hairy, and wearing a wig, and, in fact, he could play all the Bonds up to the 90s. In fact, it seems to me that he is immortal and that a strange fighter with a sword and the cry “only one must remain” will soon appear to him, so the role of the ageless Bond is just right for Connery. Because he is too cool for a human being.

The last Bond film by Terence Young is a movie that desperately clings to the moment. Nuclear blackmail in territories that have not yet healed from the Caribbean crisis is no longer as vivid a motif as it was when the film was first released, and before that, Thunderball was a more daring and edgy film. But Bond's evolution marks a film that is entertaining, not topical. With subtle cynical humor. The rubber plot in it is essentially no different from other representatives of the cult franchise. The main character takes the lead and wins. He rescues women, avenges the death of his colleagues, and leaves the combat zone by helicopter. The fact that someone can suddenly betray him, that the entrance to headquarters is located behind the wall of an ordinary apartment, and that the gadgets in his trouser pockets make the Englishman invulnerable are secondary plot devices that together create the completely unoriginal yet unique charm of a spy thriller, framed by the musical beauty of John Barry and Monty Norman. And the fact that the same thing happens from episode to episode is only a problem for the plot. Over time, the antagonists of the exaggerated Bond will win over the audience's sympathy. Because, unlike the already hackneyed indestructible agent 007, the bad guys will become the avant-garde experiments of writers and screenwriters. Besides, they are mortal. And that is so charismatic.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (51.5 Mb/s)
Resolution: 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Original aspect ratio: 2.35:1

Info Audio

#English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1
#English: Dolby Digital Plus with Dolby Atmos 5.1
#French: Dolby Digital 5.1
#German: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Spanish (Latino): Dolby Digital 5.1
#Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Czech: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Hungarian: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Polish: Dolby Digital 5.1

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English SDH, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.