James Bond Ultimate Collection, Vol. 2 (1965)

"[Licence] Both the toughest Bond movie ever and the most entertaining Bond movie ever.  Chuck O'Leary, Fantastica Daily
"[View] Another fine moment from everyone's favourite super-spy...  Clint Morris, MovieHole
"[Thunderball] ...represents the series in its zenith and provides excellent entertainment...  Dragan Antulov, Rec.Arts.Movies.Reviews
"[Spy] The best Bond movie of the Moore era...  Stefan Birgir Stefansson, SBS.IS
"[Die] ...easily the fastest, meanest, funniest, edgiest Bond of the Brosnan era.  Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Editor's Note This collection includes DIE ANOTHER DAY, LICENSE TO KILL, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, THUNDERBALL, and A VIEW TO KILL. See individual titles for details.

	Adolfo Celi
	Barbara Bach
	Carey Lowell
	Christopher Walken
	Claudine Auger
	Curd Jurgens
	Grace Jones
	Halle Berry
	John Cleese
	Judi Dench
	Luciana Paluzzi
	Pierce Brosnan
	Richard Kiel
	Robert Davi
	Roger Moore
	Sean Connery
	Talisa Soto
	Tanya Roberts
	Timothy Dalton
	John Glen - [View, Licence] Director
	Lee Tamahori - [Die] Director
	Lewis Gilbert - [Spy] Director
	Terence Young - [Thunderball] Director

DVD Verdict 9 of 10
[Spy] The Spy Who Loved Me asks quite a few questions. Can Bond work with his female equal? Can 007 not drive Q crazy and get his high-tech toys back in one piece? And speaking of pieces...can our gentleman spy bed down his usual array of women? The answer to these and many more pressing matters await in The Spy Who Loved Me. Because, after all, nobody does it better...The Spy Who Loved Me raised the bar of expectations as to what Bond movies should have, especially in the way of stunts and exotic locales. From the opening ski jump off a mountain to the underwater action sequence featuring a Q converted Lotus automobile, everything about TSWLM is big, big and bigger. - Harold Gervais

ReelViews 7 of 10
[View] A View to a Kill is often numbered among the worst of the series, but, upon closer inspection, this film is a vast improvement over Octopussy. Even though Moore sleepwalks his way through the part, making it apparent that he should have departed two films ago, and Tanya Roberts can't act to save her life (although she certainly can scream), we're back to a more conventional, straightforward Bond than the convoluted mess of the previous movie. The stunts are more spectacular than ever, Christopher Walken is a chilling psychopath (a role he has become intimately familiar with over the years), and Grace Jones is viciously effective as his sidekick. - James Berardinelli

Reel.com 9 of 10
[Thunderball] Sean Connery is back in Thunderball as the sexiest of all the Bonds. This time, Agent 007 battles the agents of SPECTRE from the pristine beaches of Nassau (in the Bahamas), as he races against time to uncover the nuclear weapons stolen by SPECTRE agent Number Two, Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi) in SPECTRE's attempt to blackmail the world...Production designer Ken Adam outdid himself in creating slick underwater crafts and gadgetry that add flavor to the underwater scenes. The final climactic battle between the forces of good and evil, shot by underwater-camera ace Lamar Boren and directed by Ricou Browning, is a sensational underwater ballet pitting man against man and man against fish. - Pam Grady

Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
[Licence] My favorite moments in all the Bond pictures involve The Fallacy of the Talking Killer, in which the villain has Bond clearly in his power, and then, instead of killing him instantly, makes the mistake of talking just long enough for Bond to make a plan. The fallacy saves Bond's life two or three times in this movie - especially once when all that Davi has to do is slice his neck...[Dalton] makes an effective Bond - lacking Sean Connery's grace and humor, and Roger Moore's suave self-mockery, but with a lean tension and a toughness that is possibly more contemporary. The major difference between Dalton and the earlier Bonds is that he seems to prefer action to sex. But then so do movie audiences, these days. "Licence to Kill" is one of the best of the recent Bonds. - Roger Ebert

Variety 7 of 10
[Die] James Bond celebrates his 40th birthday on the bigscreen in "Die Another Day," a midrange series entry that sports some tasty scenes, mostly in the first half, but also pushes 007 into CGI-driven, quasi-sci-fi territory that feels like a betrayal of what the franchise has always been about...Brosnan once again proves more than up to the task of filling Bond's shoes and, especially in the early going, gives the character some dark and nasty shadings that reveal a welcome desire to take Bond back to Ian Fleming-based basics. After the promising beginning, unfortunately, most of what Berry is called upon to do is pretty generic action stuff. - Todd McCarthy