Review – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

George Lazenby? Who made that casting decision? This was the little-known Bond between the first time Sean Connery retired from the role after You Only Live Twice and the second time he retired after Diamonds Are Forever. Though to be honest, maybe Lazenby wasn’t such a bad call. He looks and acts just like a nine to five clerk, and because this film treats the superagent as a civil servant, Connery (or even Roger Moore) would have seemed out of place. Can you imagine the Connery Bond sitting around an office making copies? Yet here 007 does just that (in a scene not made dramatically more interesting by the fact that it was set in a lawyer’s office that our hero broke into). Later his getaway car is stalled by frozen windshield wipers. I’ve got problems like that of my own; I expect James Bond to worry more about saving the world from annihilation and less time fretting about minor mechanical defects. Set the VCR to fast forward until the commando attack on Blofeld’s (oh, and Telly Savalas as Blofeld?) mountaintop stronghold at the end. Otherwise you’ll have to endure the sickening sight of the notorious playboy actually falling in love. And worse, when the action ends 007 actually gets married! She gets killed almost immediately thereafter, but still. See if desperate