From Russia with Love

Movie • 1963

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Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.

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Reelviews

"Standing at the pinnacle of the series, From Russia with Love shows how good a Bond film can be when all the ingredients mesh. This movie isn't just a fun popcorn-munching action adventure flick; it's a good motion picture by any standards."

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Roger Ebert

"From Russia with Love' is among the top Bonds, but I don’t see it as the very best... it is mainly the human element that made this a great Bond film."

rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/from-russia-with-love-in-the-bond-canon

The Guardian

"I suppose one should add that the film is highly immoral in every imaginable way; it is neither uplifting, instructive, nor life-enhancing. Neither is it great film-making. But it sure is fun."

theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/25/from-russia-with-love-review-archive

Medium

All in all, From Russia with Love is far from just a great Bond film, or even a great spy film. It stands as a great thriller in its own right, an exemplar of the genre, and perhaps the best Bond film of them all.

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MI6 Community

From Russia with Love is a special film because we get to live with the villains as much as our hero, and because of this, we get to set our sights on the training rituals of SPECTRE’s agents as in this sequence and witness first-hand what their hierarchical structure looks and feels like underneath big dog Blofeld. Only From Russia with Love has delivered this, and it’s one of the many reasons why it’s so special.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Smart, stylish, and thrillingly authentic, From Russia with Love stands as one of James Bond’s finest missions—a near-perfect blend of danger, desire, and classic espionage allure.

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Common Sense Media

Explosions, fistfights, gun battles, strangling. Very strong sexual implications, although no graphic frontal nudity or sex acts are presented.

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Letterboxd

This movie feels like Bond has finally gotten in its flow. Unlike Dr. No, From Russia With Love has a Bond theme, Q makes his first appearance, and SPECTRE and Blofeld introduced.

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