There's no way
this was only an hour and fifty minutes. By the time he got to Bad Guy Island I
thought surely the movie must be close to over by now. Nope, he still needed to
meet this movie's Bond girl as well as the villain. He still needed to do all the
stuff to get to the base. He still needed to have his nice little dinner with
the bad guy as he got the plan explained to him. This movie, despite having a
good deal of the Bond tropes established right from the very beginning, was
boooooring for long stretches. I didn't even get to appreciate the silly secret
base and the Doctor's even sillier robot hand because by that time I was pretty
checked out.
As you can imagine, some things aged pretty
poorly (including Sean Connery, who was somehow a year younger than me when the
movie released despite looking like he was in his early fifties already) but
even the tropes that would prove to be more fun and exciting in later entries
proved to be dull in this, all thanks to that lethargic sixties pacing. Maybe
I'm spoiled by the faster pacing in modern movies or maybe a Bond movie where
the most intense moment is the squishing of a spider just ain't it.
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