Wonderful character development!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Movie Review: "007: Goldfinger" (1964)Production Company Eon Productions LLC does not lose time to build on the worldwide phenomenon "James Bond" finding its target audience when "Goldfinger" gets presented just 11 months after "From Russia With Love" on September 17th 1964 and finally establishes itself with even more sophisticated Academy-Award-Winning special effects scenes as a spy-driven car with integrated machine guns, oil slick decoy and passenger ejection seat.The production design by Ken Adam (1921-2016), just returning from working on Stanley Kubrick's production of "Dr. Strangelove", creates stunning wide shots of symmetric shapes in an balanced image system by reprising cinematographer Ted Moore (1914-1987). Leading Actor Sean Connery, still enjoying cigarette-smoking on screen, sharing magnificient punchlines and the ease as charms of a true movie star, when the picture gets into action on the ground with one of first already-legendary product placement budget-benifiting Aston Martin DB5 car chases and in the air with a showdown-bringing antagonist's private jet.Eon-staff-screenwriter Richard Maibaum (1908-1991) presents the perfect acceleration of an action script. Gadget surprises, new female character introductions and suspenseful story twists as an highly entertaining party of Golf between James Bond and Goldfinger, performed by menacing Spy-out-smarting German actor Gert Fröbe (1913-1988), who gives a stand-alone performnce as refreshing Bond nemesis beside the usual "Spectre" employees by planning the heist of a life-time at Fort Knox, Texas, USA along with a metal-hat throwing Asian sidekick and the character of Pussy Galore, portrayed by feminine Bond-contra-giving actress Honor Blackman.Director Guy Hamilton (1922-2016) handles the directions with patience, skill and vision for "007" pictures to come by shaping further on the Quartermaster's MI6-chamber ("Q") in favor to the spy-mission-fulfilling character of James Bond.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Goldfinger (1964) is Quintessential James Bond 007 it is my number one all time favorite James Bond 007 film from Sean Connery. This one, You Only Live Twice and DR. No from Sean Connery are really my top three all time favorite James Bond 007 films. This was originally the first James Bond film I saw as a kid. Goldfinger was also my dad's favorite James Bond film and in years it become a cult classic. Even for 53 year old movie it still a classic the best 007 flick. I love it to death, I am enjoying it and I have so much fun watching it. This movie has so much action, action, action and more action. Sean Connery does an excellent performance as James Bond 007 I'm a hard-core James Bond fan. I make no apologies for believing that even the late Sean Connery is the closest thing we've seen to IAN FLEMING's James Bond. Everyone who watched this movie know is a really good Bond movie.The reason why is this movie so good: - James Bond has new cool car Aston Martin DB5 build with smoke screen in which can throw a co driver seat out of the car and the revolving licence plate. The car also has other applications such as: 30 calibre machine guns, Tire-shredding blade, Oil smoke and water emitters. Actress Shirley Eaton as the murdered Jill Masterson-" is one of the most enduring images in cinematic history. The girl is painted with gold and dies. Memorable and cool villains like are: Auric Goldfinger and Oddjob ( Goldfinger's second henchman.) Oddjob wears a Sandringham hat with a sharpened steel rim, he is using it as a lethal weapon in the style of a chakram. The movie has great sexy beautiful girls like Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore, Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson and Tania Mallet as Tilly Masterson. Cool dialogues I love it so much."Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!" This was directed by director Guy Hamilton it was his first James Bond 007 film the first two films were directed by Terence Young in which he directed Thunderball next Bond movie after this one. This movie also didn't evolve around SPECTRE this time like was in the first two film it was about a brilliant mastermind criminal in which he planed to blow off Fort Knox to get more profits for his Gold brilliant! It has beautiful great music score by John Barry I love it. The car Aston Martin DB5 James Bond 007 was driving was so cool, it has so many accessories it was beautiful to watch it.Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.This movie has so much impact it is well acted it has great brilliant plot.Gert Fröbe R.I.P was brilliant and excellent as Goldfinger the original villain. He gave his powerful performance as the bad guy from the title of the movie. I love him in this movie.Harold Sakata R.I.P. as Oddjob was great villain just like Goldfinger, he was really strong and excellent in hand to hand combat. Oddjob and Jaws are two great Bond villains.Honor Blackman is the first of a long line of James Bond females with patently sexual names And ho could ever forget Shirley Eaton's introduction in the film? She is lying on a chaise longue on the balcony of Goldfinger's Miami Beach hotel suite, attired in black bra and panties, while she observes Mr. Simmons' (Austin Willis) gin hand through binoculars.What more could you ask for? Well, how about a film in which Bond actually *does* something? For the whole 2nd half of this movie he's just a prisoner who fails every attempt to escape, signal his superiors or even deactivate the bomb himself. Even killing Oddjob at the end is ultimately meaningless as he's still trapped in the vault with a bomb he can't disarm until the Army rescues him.Goldfinger is a 1964 British spy film and the third instalment in the James Bond series to be produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character Auric Goldfinger, along with Shirley Eaton as the iconic Bond girl Jill Masterson. Goldfinger was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton.10/10 Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved me has such a great villains and they are both in my top 10 James Bond favorite films. I just love and enjoy watching this film. Goldfinger in my opinion is MILES way better then Daniel Craig's last three films he did. This movie deserves a cult classic status movies like this will never be so good like was Goldfinger. It is quintessential James Bond 007 action cult classic film I love this movie to death it is my number one favorite Sean Connery's James Bond 007 film.

With two box office hits in the first two Bond films, the English producers knew they had a hit series on their hands with Ian Fleming's 007 special agent. If there was any doubt remaining before the release of this one, it would squelch it. "Goldfinger" earned 17 times its budget at the box office. At $51 million, it was the second highest grossing film for 1964 in the U.S. "My Fair Lady" was first, at $72 million, but its gross was just over four times its budget. "Goldfinger" was the biggest moneymaker of the year. The salaries of the players, especially leads, are starting up with the obvious success of the Bond films. Sean Connery's Bond is challenged by the leading female in this film, Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore. Blackman had a lengthy film career, but never rose much above her role here. German actor Gert Fröbe plays Goldfinger. Because of his thick German accent, his voice was dubbed by English actor Michael Collins. Fröbe had a significant career in films, mostly in Germany. He played comedy as well as dramatic roles. American and English audiences will know him also for his roles in "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" of 1965 and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" of 1968. Shirley Eaton, who plays Jill Masterson, had a modest career, mostly in British films, and was in several of the "Carry On" series of films. But after 40 films she quit acting in 1969 at age 32 to raise her family. Tania Mallet was earning a nice livelihood ($2,000 per week) as a model, and her role as Till Masterson (paid $150 per week) was the only real character she played on film. She had one other uncredited role in a production to "The New Avengers" in 1976. This is also the first time that a Bond film would be made by an American studio – Warner Brothers. And all of this film was shot at the studio locations in California. The plot didn't involve a number of exotic locales, and the diverse California terrain suited the film needs for foreign locales as well as for Fort Knox, Kentucky. This film is the first look we get of the specialty weapons and gadgets section of MI-6 that is headed by "Q." And, Bond makes use of considerable technology in the film. Most of it comes with his new car, an Austin Martin DB5. "Goldfinger" also scored the first Oscar win for a Bond film for, what else – special effects. The practice continued of releasing the Bond film in the U.K. ahead of the U.S., but the lag time between the two was now just over three months. With the Bond spy and action thriller successes, a new genre of film was taking shape. The mystery, action, thriller aspects would lead to popular TV programs such as "Mission Impossible" from 1966 to 1973. Movies by the same titles would follow later, and by the 1980s, these fast action films would begin to dominate the mystery field. "Indiana Jones" was a popular series of films beginning in the 1980s. Regular Crime and mystery films took on the action and violence aspects of these earlier films. The "Dirty Harry" films with Clint Eastwood were top films of the 1970s and 1980s. The "Die Hard" films followed in the 1980s and early 21st century. Many action comic book character films have been popular that thrive on action, thrills and violence.

Goldfinger is almost a universal favorite for Bond fans and audiences and it's not hard to see why. Goldfinger introduces some key Bond elements that later become a formula for future successful Bond films. You have a great car equipped with gadgets, a great villain and henchman, great Bond girl, soundtrack and off course, Sean Connery. Sean Connery is in his element for this film and it shows. Many people put forward their actor who they think is the best Bond but in Goldfinger and Thunderball Connery shows he IS James Bond. Goldfinger is perhaps one of the greatest villains in Bond history as his plans are evil and ingenious. The Bond girl played by Honor Blackman is superb and probably the first Bond girl who shows she can hold her own and is very much his equal. The action sequences, plot and direction of this film was fantastic. Goldfinger is easily one of the greatest Bond films and its elements used became a standard formula to be applied in future Bond movies.