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It's a shame about DAF, too, that it nearly disregards OHMSS, and what little there is is handled with a most perfunctionary way. Bond doesn't act much pleased in disposing of Blofeld, merely seeming to make a quip like it was a funny but minor mishap at the supermarket checkout. I have to add that Diana Riggi was a great Bond girl, who could hold her own in a tight spot. The Bond girl in DAF was set up as that, but after her capture she inexplicably becomes a useless dimwit with none of the sass and confidence she used to have. Her utter neutering is frankly dismaying.

On a brighter note, the moon buggy chase deserves a special note for being plain bonkersand more entertaining than the Vegas chase. Bond only escapes because the villain's mooks are more inept than the moon buggy iswhich in fact was so flimsy it lost a wheel (off-screen) during one of the scenes. Just watch the sequence again and keep an eye out for a misplaced wheel rolling by! The event preceding the chase is also hilarious. Bond sneaks on to, of all things, a staged moon landing set, with astronauts in space suits. One of them tries to stop him, but fails specacularly as he moves in slow motion as if he truly were in a low-g environment. It's comically absurd!

Throughout the movie Connery does act just well enough to be convincing (for the most part), though Wint and Kidd do a stellar job at stealing the spotlight. Blofeld is... ehh, well... is played by a minor character from You only Live Twice, and worse yet, has none of that memorable creepiness and cold menace of that movie's Blofeld. The ending is also, despite all the action, an anti-climax. Anyhow, this is becoming an overlong and rambling post, so I'll end it by saying that DAF is not great, but it's campy fun, and certainly not the worst Bond.

I've heard that the worst Bond is one of the Daniel Craig ones.
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