Once Grant gets on the train, the movie steps up a notch, and then that fight is incredible - so close and intense, like some kind of Bourne predecessor. Me: I love that fight scene on the train between Grant and Bond. And why would you save a grenade to drop on James Bond after you've already flown a helicopter perilously close to him on numerous occasions? Who decides to pull their boat over next to some highly explosive barrels? Seriously? That was rubbish. But the helicopter sequence and the boat chase are a bit lame and the end of the film suffers as a result. From where Robert Shaw's Grant gets on the train until the end of his fight with Bond, it's great, tense, action movie stuff. I don't know about the dialogue at the start - I thought it was good, and the script overall is great and a marked improvement on Dr No - but the end does kind of sag. there's too much quick dialogue that I didn't follow at the start and then a few too many naff action scenes at the end. From Russia With Love has too much shit at the start and not enough shit at the end. Look, don't get me wrong, Connery's great - I mean, the man's a stud - but the two movies so far haven't impressed me that much. Her: You know, I've heard so much about James Bond, he's supposed to be it-and-a-bit and awesome and everything, and everyone knows who James Bond is, but I'm not that impressed. (Five-minute discussion about the plot and the Cold War omitted for brevity.)Īnd here's the rest of our post-film discussion (re-written in a mostly fictitious fashion): Me: It was at the start in the briefing with M.
Her: When did they say it was a decoder? And what does it decode?
Me: No, SPECTRE is stealing a Lektor decoder from the Russians with some help from James Bond. Her: So the Russians are stealing some machine from themselves?
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