Everything or Nothing is the name of the production company
that makes the Bond films and it pretty much sums up the mood of the franchise.
The documentary starts off talking about how Ian Fleming was in the Second
World War and goes up until the current day. We got the early days of Jimmy
Bond (which was truly awful) and it was interesting to see how close Bond came
to not being the success that it did.
Interestingly Sean Connery is the only one that doesn’t appear
in person in the documentary. It’s a shame really as it would be nice to know
how he feels about the franchise now instead of back in the 1970’s or 80’s when
his opinion was rather poor. Roger Moore is funny with his line about being
horrified when 007 knocks a Thai boy off his boat and as a UN Ambassador wouldn’t
do that. Be fair, that was shot about 20 years before he started to work for
the UN. George Lazenby is quite honest about his time in the role and how he
basically talked himself out of it which I thought was surprising. Timothy
Dalton is quite good as well in the documentary. But its Pierce Brosnan who is
the best because I didn’t know about the fact he could have been Bond instead
of Dalton and even he realises that riding a Tsunami in Die Another Day was a
ludircrous idea as well as the invisible car.
Barbara Brocolli and Michael Wilson provide some interesting
comments from their points of view with how Chubby Broccolli and Harry Saltzman
bought the rights and how the series took off straight away. I thought the
whole story about Sean Connery leaving the franchise and then making Never Say
Never which was a rival Bond movie and the whole saga of Thunderbull and how
Ian Flemming was accused of plagiarism and it allowed Kevin McClory to become
producer of the film and tried to effectively think he could own the character.
Everything or Nothing isn’t perhaps as honest as it could have
been but as it is, I found it to be very entertaining with some very good
contributions and as for any Bond fan it should be viewed.
