Review – From Russia with Love

Though not necessarily the dullest Bond movie ever made, this outing is definitely in the running for the title. The story involves 007’s attempts to steal a Soviet decoding device and get it out of Turkey and back to England. Compared to subsequent thwarted evils, this one’s banal to the point of seeming downright bureaucratic (which might make this the most realistic espionage story in the entire Bond series). Robert Shaw does a good job as the SPECTRE hit man, though it’s almost hard to believe now that he was ever this young. Other than Shaw, however, the plot drags, barely buoyed up by a seemingly endless parade of cold war clichés and pre-feminist male sexuality. See if desperate