Almost Christmas as of writing and during the Black Friday-week I had to get my own presents like last year, but where it took till after Christmas to get delivered I got a James Bond blu ray box since I didn't have those movies and I seen clips on facebook that got me in the espionage mood. Well, I got one film, Die Another Day... but that ones not that good. So started watching from beginning to end and of course you start with Dr No... or as it was known in Sweden Agent 007 with License to Kill (this will be problem for the Swedish translation team until the 90's).
An undercover agent Strangeway disappears in Jamaica together with his secretary so 007 is sent in to find them. Both have been killed by Dr No who operates from an island nearby in order to capture one of the Americans rockets firing from Cape Canaveral in the space race between east and west. Dr No works for the criminal crime syndicate SPECTRA. Bond meets the CIA operative Felix Leiter and local fisherman Quarrel that helped Strangeway in searching the island, finding samples of radioactive material on Dr No:s island that got Strangeway killed when he handed over them to the local Professor Dent who works for Dr No. After Dent tries to kill 007 with a poisonous spider he meets his doom as Bond guns him down after yet another failed assassination attempt. On Dr. No's island 007 meets Honey Rider... a random girl that looks for sea shells and helps 007 and Quarrel through the swamp... until they are cornered by the "Dragon" that kills Quarrel and takes the other to Dr No's facility where they finally meet the much talked about Dr No. All that's left is that 007 blows up the nuclear reactor that powers the facility, push Dr No into the vat of cooling water and escapes with Honey Rider and then is picked up by Felix Leiter that arrives with a ship of coastal guards.
Not much to say about this first proper James Bond-movie. Music is great, but it does most of the heavy lifting to excite the action scenes. I mean, you can't take the spider scene seriously as it crawls on the glass window. The plot works fine. My parents complained some year ago that they felt the older Bond-movies didn't work for them due to the slow tempo and all that... I can see some people feel that, but at least I can follow the plot and action. What is problematic is that it probably expects people to know what happens around in history of the time they made the movies. One throw-away gag is that Dr No has a stolen Goya painting of Napoleon that was stolen for real around filming and they just added that for that scene, but they don't comment on what it is and it's never referenced in the movie. I didn't get that until I watched the documentary on the making of that movie that came with the blu ray. Blu ray is good, but menu is a bit weird at times, but it contains a couple of documentaries, description on major players in the movie and pictures of memorabilia around release and such. What I miss most is that I miss the posters of the movies on the package. It's just 3 cases in a box and they all are white.
Didn't watch this one that much as a kid, was kinda boring since there wasn't any gadgets or such and we only had it recorded on a VHS. We had the book, but I never read it.
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