On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: After saving some ginger chick from suicide a ‘James Bond’ gets dragged into a plot that sees him save the world from a biblical-scale man-made plague!
All in a day's work for the world's best spy
For a Sean Connery replacement Lazenby is so meek and timid in comparison, with no real screen presence, charisma or any of the charm that the other Bond actors have. In parts he looks as uncomfortable as a schoolboy dressed up in a suit! It’s an interesting technique used to try and convince us that this is still James Bond: the credits are littered with iconic shots from previous outings, Lazenby lovingly sifts through props from previous adventures as the theme songs get played, and we even see a midget whistling the Goldfinger theme!! Another random motif was “All The Time In The World” being played throughout.
"When I click my fingers you will believe he is Bond"
The number of girls in this film was ridiculous, and the “Angels of Death” is clearly a shady plot device used to springboard the featured girls to stardom. Worse still, despite being chemically imbalanced and hypnotised, Bond still takes advantage of these unstable girls! Tut tut James!
He's got 99 problems and his bitches are at least 12
It’s also pretty dark for a Bond film; opening with a suicide attempt, followed by Bond resigning from MI6, then engaging with Terrorists. And as for the ending, yikes, that’s about as bleak as the franchise gets.
James Bond, married... Pah!
MacGyver Bond sneaking between the ‘allergy clinic’ rooms is about the only remotely interesting part of the first hour – the set up is so boring… it drifts along into the final 20 minutes or so, which pick up a little and are the only redeeming feature in an otherwise tepid effort.
I hope nobody's allergic to snow...
Between the late 60s psychedelia / ‘far out’ vibe, and campy story, this is as close to Austin Powers as Bond ever got. As a one-off film – with another spy at the centre – this may have worked, but as a James Bond film, it’s absolutely rubbish.
Score: 2/10
"Who loves ya, baby Bond?"
TOP TRUMPS
Villain: Ernst Blofeld (Legendary Megalomaniac) executing the most trippy scheme. 6
Henchmen: Ginger Manchild Lady – pretty rubbish! 4
Babes: Tempremental Red-Head – good times. Several mentally unstable girls – bad times. 5
Action: Last 20 minutes – Guns, Skiing, Toboggan. 3
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this bond film ‘on her majesty’s secret service’ is considered by most bond fans
the best in the all series and after watching it a few times they are probably right.
George lazenby you could say was very lucky at the time nailing the role
after sean connery gave-up the role.
if it hadn’t been for the late peter hunt bond director lazenby would’ve failed in this
film.
This film had everything going for it, from start to finish and a fantastic supportive
cast members, Diana rigg played the contessa wonderfully telly savalas as villain
Ernst stavro blofeld was awesome,, using and manipulating young woman in
his evil plans.
The skiing action scene’s are great to watch on the big screen and the late john barrys
soundtrack for this film was beautiful,
The reason why I believe this bond film is rated the best is probably the producers
decided to keep close to ian fleming’s novel in which the film was adapted from.
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