Greg D. Smith’s trawl through the Bond catalogue as we prepare for the arrival of No Time to Die has reached Goldfinger – a movie which tweaked the formula into something much closer to what audiences came to expect:

The previous two movies felt a little split down the middle, involving some fairly grounded, believable spycraft and ideas but also fights against shadowy global cabals and larger than life nemeses. Here, the grounded and believable parts are thrown out of the window altogether, and we settle on a tone that feels more like modern Bond to someone like me.

Click here for Greg’s full analysis, and for the earlier films in the series, click here

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