I love this movie so much

Disappointment for a huge fan!

Brilliant and touching

A lot of fun.

"From Russia with Love" is the second installment in the Bond franchise and widely considered to be the best of the Bond movies up to this point. While I haven't seen enough of them to either confirm or deny this, I did really really like this movie. I understand the praise.Connery revises his role as James Bond, heading to Turkey to meet with a potential Russia defector who wants to travel back to England with him and bring a Russian super-decoder as payment. What Bond doesn't know is that Tatiana is secretly working for Rosa Klebb, former officer for the Russian military. What Tatiana doesn't know is that Klebb is not loyal to the motherland anymore and is secretly working for SPECTRE. SPECTRE is attempting to pit Russia and England against one another, assassinating James Bond, while stealing the Lektor machine in the process. It's all very complex.This movie's filled with great scenes and Connery is at his very best in this one. The cast around him is fantastic too. Robert Shaw may just be my favorite Bond henchman I've seen thus far. He's a fantastic actor that has this foreboding-ness about him that I can't get out of my mind. My favorite character introduced in this one though is Kerim Bey. I'm sad this actor died so young because he is phenomenal here.A couple of scenes stand out, some of them really setting the tone for future Bond stereotypes. For one, the train fight scene is absolutely brutal! There's so much tension and good action choreography in this, one of the best early Bond fight scenes, hands down. The scene where we get introduced to our first set of gadgets is fun too. The suitcase isn't the most memorable gadget but it has a great deal of importance as it introduces us to Q.Sidenote: I also loved the chess scene and the great set design on display there. I loved all the scenes involving SPECTRE as well.I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the title sequence, another archetype of the Bond flick. It's a memorable one (even if you can't read it) and foreshadows our interactions with the gypsies later. This one has everything you want in a Bond film: a good henchman, SPECTRE, a devious plot, good action sequences, gadgets, beautiful women. This is the film that changed the action genre forever!

After a successful debut in theaters ("Dr. No") in 1962, James Bond is back as Agent 007 of the British Secret Service. As with the first film, "From Russia with Love" was released in England six months ahead of its U.S. release. So, movie fans in America who had seen "Dr. No" in 1963, and who heard about the new James Bond movie, would have to wait until May of 1964 to see this second film. The plot is more complex in this film, and involves U.S., British and Soviet spy organizations. But the real culprit is the nasty SPECTRE, the international "evil empire" that tries to dominate the world. The story is more interesting, and has more action. This film also introduces the character of "Q," who is MI6 director of special equipment. His crew experiments with and develops new weapons, hidden gadgets and special items that Bond and his fellow agents may need in emergencies. This film also began the practice of shooting in various exotic locations that are part of the plot. The scenic aspects of the Bond films soon became part of their appeal. In this film, scenes were shot in Istanbul, the Bosphorus Strait that connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, other parts of Turkey, the canals of Venice, other places in Italy, Madrid, and numerous locations in Scotland and England. Many of the early James Bond films introduced newcomers to audiences. Some went on to notable film careers, and others didn't. Tatiana Romanova is one of the longest roles of the many attractive female parts in Bond films. She is played by Daniela Bianchi, a new Italian discovery who could barely speak English. So, her voice was dubbed in the film. Bianchi was the Miss Rome of 1960 and was runner-up in the Miss Universe contest where someone noticed her and thought she might be good for this James Bond film. Her career was short lived, ending in 1968. She had just 16 appearances, mostly in Italian and French films. None of these were exceptional films or roles. Apparently, Bianchi didn't want to be an actress and in 1970 she married an Italian businessman and settled into home life. And, who will ever forget Lotte Lenya for her knife-in-the-shoe kicking scene in this film with Sean Connery. She plays Rosa Klebb, the former Russian security official who is now a member of SPECTRE. This was only Lenya's third film and second English film. The Austrian-born actress had a longer stage career. She was a dancer, singer and actress. Her movie career began with a major supporting part (as Jenny) in the 1931 German film, "The 3 Penny Opera." Before that, she had the same role in the 1928 stage play that ran successfully in Berlin. Lenya was married to composer Kurt Weill who wrote the music for the show. After the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Weill and Lenya fled to England. Lenya won the 1956 supporting actress Tony for her Broadway role of Jenny in "The Threepenny Opera." She received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for her supporting role as the Contessa in the 1961 movie, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone." Lenya's name comes up frequently when the song, "Mack the Knife," is played. Lenya's husband, Kurt Weill, wrote "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" for "The Three Penny Opera." American jazz musician, Louis Armstrong, in 1956 added Lotte Lenya's name in a line in the song. Many singers around the world have recorded the song. By far the most famous (and arguably the best) is the 1959 smash hit by Bobby Darin. His "Mack the Knife" (with Lotte's name) topped the charts in the U.S. and the U.K.

This film has everything that was great about the first bond film, and more. The plot is wiser, the characters have more to do, the action is much more developed, and the character-to-character dialogue scenes are some of the most intense scenes I have ever seen in a movie. This film does everything to perfection, and what I love so much about these films is how easily each cast member can work with each other. They all feel so comfortable. I have no complaints about this film, besides a few characters that were brought up, but left out until then end of the film, but every movie can be poked at. "From Russia With Love" is a stunning Bond feature!

FROM Russia WITH LOVE is an action thriller, which is a good combination between a fictional thriller and the Cold War fantasy. It is based on Ian Fleming's similarly-named 1957 novel.Seeking to exact revenge on James Bond for killing its agent Dr. No and destroying the organization's assets in the Caribbean, SPECTRE begins training agents to kill Bond. Their hope is a former prisoner, who is a born killer. Meanwhile, the organization's Chief Planner, a Czech chess grandmaster, devises a plan to play British and Soviet intelligence against each other to procure a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviets. SPECTRE's Chief Executive, a former Colonel of SMERSH, gets the task to carry out their plan into action. She recruits the beautiful Tatiana Romanova, a cipher clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul, as part of the plan. Tatiana has to lure into the trap the British secret agent 007...This story is very funny, even a pseudo-realistic tone does not make a lot of damage. A crazy adventure of a secret agent, full of sinister characters, passionate plots and political illogicality is pretty amazing. In contrast to the first film (Dr. No), the enemy is precisely defined, while the main cause of danger is a secret mechanism. That magic, created by Istanbul (the city on two continents), Orient Express, secret services, an evening with gypsies, a romance between the West and the East and the constant danger is an excellent bait for the audience.Sean Connery as James Bond is a rough gentleman and irresistible lover. His character has not undergone any major change in comparison to the first film.His support is Daniela Bianchi (Tatiana Romanova) as beautiful and curious young woman. She affects the change in the Bond character in some scenes. However, I think, that her character is a bit neglected. Lotte Lenya (Rosa Klebb) has offered a solid performance as a double agent. Pedro Armendáriz (Ali Kerim Bey) has brought a large dose of humor and tradition in this film. Robert Shaw (Donald "Red" Grant) is quite convincing as a ruthless killer.This story is not intriguing. This is perhaps the biggest flaw of this film. The Russians know how to love. Definitely.