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-If Bond hadn't killed Mitchell, Mitchell would have shot him, and still gotten away. Bond had little choice in the matter and wounding him would have done little because he probably had a whole pack of cyanide cigs in his pocket.
-Slate attacked him, death was heat-of-the-moment, it's less than thirty seconds between him walking out the door and Camille driving up and telling him to get in.
-I got nothing for revealing himself to Quantum. Nothing at all.
-Ditto on the Special Branch agent, other than maybe he was going to walk down and interrogate him on the parking lot, then Greene's guy killed him, it could have just been a matter of circumstance.
-We all know Bond has little or no respect for office equipment, and probably feels that Fields is just that. Yup. I'm going with Goldfinger. It was not the best plot anyway, and I didn't care much for Goldfinger himself. His only redeeming quality is that he gets the franchise's best villain line.
But I have to agree with you GOLDFINGER hands down.
That may be true, but who knows what other information they were going to reveal in the meeting? Bond cut off Greene in mid-sentence, and he was probably going to explain why his plan was such a priority. Besides, Bond could've easily disarmed the thug and still had enough time to scare the people into revealing themselves. (BTW, couldn't he have also uplinked the conversation to Mi6's feed so they can immediately track whose voice it is?) Right, but the guy never answers who he's working for - he just flips him off the building when he had all the leverage into questioning him. But Fields was never meant to be a field agent (no pun intended) - she was only a consulate and was much as a civilian rather than part of the agency. When Mathis died her security is probably all but gone, so why didn't Bond at least checked up on her before leaving with Camille? Bond probably knows she couldn't handle herself on her own, so why does just flimsily leave her behind?
I jest, of course. I'm sure Cubby's cooking was wonderful - certainly was on the Egyptian set of Spy. And Dalts was, by all accounts, a fine stage actor back in the day; I've never gone too much on his screen work, unfortunately.
Anyhoo, all this is getting away from the thread's point... ;)
And he couldn't uplink the conversation to MI6 because he had no way of doing that. Because Bond knew he didn't have much time - sooner or later, another Quantum member was going to arrive on the rooftop. Throwing the man off the roof also sent a message to Quantum: that Bond was not taking any prisoners with them. Bond was not expecting Fields to take action of her own accord. She was there to help Bond blend into the crowd at the party. He also had no time to contact her, because when Mathis died, he realised the police force was in Greene's pocket. If he stopped to contact her, they could have found him more easily.
you see where we coming from?
I guess you could include Bond in Moonraker, that bit on the plane at the start where the girl pulls a pistol right from under Moore's nose, while he only sits back and gives a 'doesn't give a fig expression', other bits of notice throughout the picture in abundance no less but you've seen the film
A view to a kill sure had it's moments too from what I can remember where Moore was sloppy, well, Bond was 57 at the time, so excuses can be made
Can't argue the Goldfinger angle either, haven't seen this one for eons but recall even now Connery not really keeping his wits about him at critical times
With regard to the opera scene it'd been a pretty short film if Bond had been a little more patient and waited for Greene to spill all of the beans. Some may say that would have been a blessing however.
He was pretty shoddy in AVTAK but the same could be said of the whole movie.
He did, after all, work out that the money was a bomb. He was the one who realised King was killed with his own ransom money. He found the connection to Davidov, and if it were not for Bond, and decommissioning team in Kazakhstan would not realise that one of the warheads would be missing. Bond worked out that Elektra was responsible, and then staged his own death to bait her into making her next more, and he did it in a way that meant Elektra could not confirm his death. He also reasoned out Zukovsky's part in the entire scheme.
Honestly, I just think you're basing your idea on the fact that you don't like the film.
Plus, he's got several points that I didn't even get until reading his post. Bond was actually pretty deductive in TWINE, but I could never really see it because the performances of several characters (cough - Christmas - cough - Sir Robert King - cough) were simply bad.
By the way, I can testify the google search that found that image was 'Sean Connery penis award'... ;)