Monday, March 19, 2007

Dr. No

Starring Sean Connery, the movie is another movie adaptation of Ian Fleming's suave spy, James Bond. I actually had quite a crappy copy of the movie, where there was an annoying French translation that ran along with the English dialogue. So there were two voices speaking at the same time, which lead to a weekend long headache.
This is another story located in Jamaica. The British official, Strangways is murdered and Bond is sent on the mission to investigate. Word is that he just disappeared and Bond should just be at the location as a relaxing vacation, but the mission proves to be more than that.
He discovers that Strangways could potentially be murdered. The local police assistant draws his attention and to catch, he charms her and puts her under arrest. While locating who is the man working with her. He discovers it to be a man, he actually went to help for.
Then he finds his assistant Quarrel to set off to the island that Dr. No works from. At the island, he finds Honey Rider, a shell collector. Together, with Quarrel and her, Bond hides from Dr. No's men. Eventually, Quarrel gets killed and the rest get captured.
Bond and Honey get a puzzling welcome at Dr. No's place. Then, during the dinner, Dr. No speaks of his plans and intentions to torture both of them. As per plan, both of them are put under torture. Bond escapes and endangers the island. Then rescuing Honey, sails out of the island.
Although the actual book showed Honey was quite self sufficient and able to defend herself, the typical movies from those times showed Bond was omnipresent and was able to save his and others' skins - which was an overdo, but keeping the century in mind, it was tolerable. A tolerable movie.

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