Sean Connery (“The Hunt For Red October”) is back as Britain’s favourite spy James Bond in “Diamonds Are Forever”. The film delivers reasonable well on action and a little bit on humour the film lacks the “Bond” pacing and edge seen in both previous and later instalments of the series.

James Bond is out for vengeance as he hunts down the evil Blowfeld (Charles Gray “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”) but is later dragged into an investigation about diamond smuggling extortion plot when he arrives in Las Vegas only to discover it is once again the work of his arch nemesis Blowfeld. Through battling the bad guys, faking death and kissing pretty girls Bond must defeat Blowfeld before it’s too late.

Sean Connery just seemed a little old by the time this one came out as I feel Bond needs some age to give him that sophistication and matureness but he needs to be at an age where it’s believable that he can actually take on the bad guys. Charles Gray is probably the worst incarnation of Blofeld as he lacks the menace of Donald Pleasant and I consider him to be campy. The Bond girls are rubbish in this one as they lack the charisma of past and future ones. None of the characters are particularly exciting I must say.

“Diamonds Are Forever” isn’t the kind “Bond” film I love as I find it is quite a weak one I must say. Although there’s action and some okay comedy “Diamonds Are Forever” is too campy for me and not the fun kind of campy sadly. James Bond deserves a more sophisticated mission as in this film they make like Bond finds it child’s play and Bond deserves far better than that because he’s too good for that kind of stuff. This Bond isn’t horrible it just can’t get its act together with the story for me.