From Russia With Love
11,980
Adventure. Action
Based on Ian Fleming's 1951 novel. Assigned to the mission of stealing an important Russian decoding device are No. 3, former KGB agent Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), and No. 5, Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal), an expert chess player who has plotted every move of the mission. Kronsteen's plan requires using Bond's weakness for women as an element in acquiring the decoding device. Once Bond obtains the decoding device from Russian cipher clerk ... [+]
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United States | rogerebert.com | one of the best James Bond movies and one of the first sequels to surpass the success of an original entry | POS |
United Kingdom | Empire | "It's one of the franchise's highlights, and if the dated action can be forgiven, a cracking cold war story (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" | POS |
United States | Chicago Reader | "Still the best Bond, with a screwball plotline that keeps the locales changing and the surprises coming" | POS |
United Kingdom | Time Out | "Despite being recognised as one of the better 007 films, number two in the series actually proves marginally less memorable than many of the others" | NEU |
United States | The New Yorker | "Exciting, handsomely staged, and campy." | POS |
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