Since i was a child i have been introduced to the well known character of James Bond. From Sean Connery through Timothy Dalton, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and the most recent being Daniel Craig. This collection was a must for me as it has all films up to current except the most recent Casino Royale. This collection consists of 20 ultimate edition films which have been digitally restored from their original quality also including a bonus disc.
The box set starts with:
Dr No.(Sean Connery)1962
James Bond goes investigating looking for the killer of a double 0, but on his trail to Jamaica he uncovers something even bigger. With the help of Felix Leiter and Honey Rider they embark to stop the evil scientist genius who is using energy waves to affect US space launches.
From Russia With Love(Sean Connery)1963
Bond is sent to look for a Russian decoding machine called a Lektor, before the evil organization SPECTRE get their hands on it to achieve world domination. All while being romantically involved with Tatiana Romanova and being confronted by SPECTRE agents Red Grant and Rosa Klebb content on killing him.
Goldfinger(Sean Connery)1964
Bond is back and is on a mission to stop Auric goldfinger and henchman from robbing Fort Knox and screwing up world economy. To achieve this he has to become friends with Goldfinger, dodge killer hats from his henchman and try to resist the sexy Pussy Galore.
SPECTRE is back and have stolen two nucleur missiles from a NATO plane, now Bond has to retrieve these missiles. He quest ends in Nassau where he meets his competition in SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo, and the irresistible Domino but can he keep his
feelings under control.
You Only Live Twice(Sean Connery)1967
An American space capsule is swallowed up by a mysterious ship, which is thought to be Russian. This provokes the near world war 3 however mi6 believes theres another force at large. Bond is sent to Japan where the ship was suspected to land, where he finds SPECTRE's evil mastermind Ernst Blofeld. Bond joins forces with Kissy Suzuki and her ninjas to try to foil Blofeld.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service(George Lazenby)1969
With Bonds usual sources coming up blank he goes and finds help from crime boss Draco to track down Blofeld. It leads to Switzerland where bond goes undercover, where he finds love in Draco's daughter Tracy. But before that he must stop Blofeld from leasing germ warfare on the world.
Diamonds Are Forever(Sean Connery)1971
Bond is sent to find who is stealing diamonds and not selling them, he takes the hidden identity of Peter Frank with the help of Plenty O'Toole. Where he finds no other than Blofeld behind the whole operation.
Live And Let Die(Roger Moore)1973
A number of 00 agents have been murdered and bond is sent to New York to find out the culprit, where he comes across Mr Big AKA Kananga. He is coordinating a global scheme involving tons of heroin, Bond meets solitaire in the process who is Kananga's tarot reader
Bond is sent a golden bullet with his name on it 007, his only lead is Francisco Scaramanga, intertwined with this is that a Solex Agitator is missing, a device which harness's the suns radiation. While on his quest he esquire's the help from Andrea Anders scaramanga's lover, also Mary goodnight a fellow agent.
The Spy Who Loved Me(Roger Moore)1977
Bond is sent to find out how a royal navy submarine with 16 nucleur missiles has gone missing on patrol. On his quest he joins forces with Anya Amasova a soviet agent, they undercover that Karl Stromberg is behind the operation who is content on ransoming the world otherwise unleashing the missiles. They must stop Stromberg and his henchman Jaws a 7ft man with metal teeth.
Moonraker(Roger Moore)1979
A spaceship is hijacked and bond has to find who is behind it, he starts with Drax organization where he meets Dr. Holly Goodhead who joins forces with him once she finds out what Hugo Drax is planning. They follow Drax to Brazil and encounter Jaws, after evading him they find there is a space station undetected from the from. Where Drax is planing to release nerve gas in a genocide plot to kill the world.
For Your Eyes Only(Roger Moore)1981
Bond is sent to recover a British decoding device for nucleur submarines called ATAC, but he has to be quick as the Russians are on to it as well. He meets Melina Havelock whose parents were brutally murdered by Kristavos, who bond suspects he is the one behind the theft. Bond must stop him before he sells the device on to the highest bidder.
Octopussy(Roger Moore)1983
A agent was found dead in a clown suit holding a priceless Fabergé egg. Kamal Kahn buys the egg at an auction where bond gets suspicious when Kahn meets with Russian general Orlov. They lead him to Octopussy and her circus, where Kahn is planing to use a nucleur bomb hidden within the circus to blow an American air force base and hopefully start ww3.
A View To A Kill(Roger Moore)1985
Bond comes back from USSR with a chip capable of blowing all digital chips and causing a nucleur explosion, Zorin industries is behind the chip so bond investigates. He encounters Max Zorin's henchwoman May Day and must defeat her first, while dragging Stacy Sutton along who found out about Zorin's plan of blowing up silicon valley and drowning all people who live there.
Bond is sent to organize the defection of a soviet general Georgi Koskov, but after defected he is abducted back. He encounters Kara a cellist who tries to kill Koskov, he takes her with him while working and finds that there is more to it than what it seems. Finally leading him to Afghanistan he finds that Koskov is selling illegal diamonds for weapons to start a war.
License To Kill(Timothy Dalton)1989
Bonds friend Felix Leiter is left for dead by a drug lord Franz Sanchez, he sets of to get revenge but is stripped of his license to kill. He embarks on his quest and hires the help of Pam Bouvier a friend of Leiter's. He has to evade fire from both the law and Sanchez, while figuring out what Sanchez is planning and what made him try to kill Leiter.
An access key called Goldeneye is stolen and bond has to find out why, while searching he finds only survivor Natalya Siminova from the Goldeneye project. Who helps find that General Ourumov is planning to blow the world economic market and wreak havoc. He encounters Ourumov's partner Xenia Onotopp who has the ability to kill with her thighs. Bond finds out that Ourumov is not behind it after all it is a close friend 006 Alec Trevelyan.
Tomorrow Never Dies(Pierce Brosnan)1997
Elliot Carver is a media tycoon who only needs Chinese broadcasting to complete world communications empire. He produces a plan to start a war between them and the British, by using his stealth boat. All works till bond meets Carvers partner Paris an old acquaintance of his, and Carver has to kill her because they are to close, so bond joins up with Chinese agent Wai Lin to thwart Carvers plan.
The World Is Not Enough(Pierce Brosnan)1999
British oil tycoon Sir Robert King is killed while visiting M in mi6, bond is given an assignment to look after the tycoons daughter Electra. Renard a guy with a bullet in his brain is planning the destruction of the king pipeline, bond foils the plan and discovers an even bigger one that involves Electra. Electra and Renard are joined in a plan to blow up Istanbul where all three major pipelines lead except the king one.
Die Another Day(Pierce Brosnan)2002
Bond is captured in North Korea while on a mission, he is set free 14 months later for an exchange for a North Korean operative Britain holds Zao. Bond excuses himself from work to find out who betrayed him and goes after Gustav Graves who he thinks is behind it, on the way he finds another MI6 operative Miranda Frost befriending Graves. Only he discovers she is working for him and that they have a satellite which can reflect the suns light and heat to anywhere in the world, but it was designed to destroy parts to get money from governments, bond teams up with CIA agent Jinx to stop this.
This is the most action packed box set you will ever have to own! It is a must have for anyone who loves the bond films.
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