Never Say Never Again: Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera)

Comments for death : Never Say Never Again: Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera).

This movie seemed very familiar, almost like a movie I saw once, certainly not like that novel based on a screenplay by Kevin McClory called Thunderball though.

Come on though, in my opinion, this movie beats out Thunderball the movie.

McClory's main purpose of this film was to be more faithful to the book (and steal the limelight from Fleming) which he just barely manages, still leaving out large plot points (IT'S NOT "JACK" PETACHI FOR GOD SAKES, IT'S "GIUSEPPE" PETACHI! AND IT'S FAST CARS AND PRETTY "GIRLS", NOT "CLOTHES"!) This movie would have improved tenfold if;

1. plot and character names were changed, we don't need two of the exact same plot done by a man with the same last name!

2. It was more of a traditional Bond film, not changing characters personalities but have a gunbarrel and dancing girls near the beginning

3. Replace Klaus Maria, Kim Basinger, and Bernie Casey's roles, the main villain sounded and acted like a major WUSS, Basinger was just bad, and Felix did not need to be black, not to be racist, because he was well acted, but to stay within canon, M can change (he is noticeably thinner here) but "M" is just a code-name, Felix is a running character!

4. I was going to say Connery, but since as it turns out Connery still looked young and healthy, despite being a bit chubbier at this point, I'd say it needed to be more like the book, Lippe a bigger part and the Petacchi guy needed to be more of a spoiled jerk type.

There were some good parts to the film, sadly, there was no Blush/Volpe character in the book and the ending to the book was inexcusably inconclusive, (I believe that I missed what happened to Largo, if anything) In conclusion I enjoyed Thunderball more, but this would have been a more acceptable inclusion in the Bond series if it was more loyal to the previous films.

p.s. Feel free to move this comment to "movie reviews"

does it count as "vanishing corpse"?

Well her corpse was blown into various bits, it didn't disappear or vaporize.

Should she really count as Baddy (Major)?

well yes she should.

I was thinking she was only a minion in Largo's plan.

As much as I love this death it's sooo contrived! Why would she want the letter anyway, it just gives him an excuse to use the pen but still it's a wonderful death!