Film Review - Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 (2012)

Everything or Nothing or EON for short is a documentary that talks about the 50 years of James Bond and focuses on the three key men that helped to bring the character to life, author Ian Fleming and original producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and the ups and downs that come with it.

EON is a terrific doco covering the history of the Bond franchise and a lot of the key players involved with the series over the years give their thoughts, there are some very nice moments such as when Roger Moore looks back in horror at a scene in The Man with the Golden Gun and Pierce Brosnan regarding both Kite Surfing in Die Another Day and a remark Martin Campbell told him on the set of Goldeneye, Tim Dalton also opens up about his short lived time in the part which helped to prepare the groundwork for Daniel Craig's interpretation at the moment.

And yet despite this and more, the doco also has a nice pace to it though there is a small part of me that wishes Sean Connery had agreed to be a part of it and be able to make his case, don't get me wrong his presence is all throughout the doco through archival interviews he's done over the years but a newly recorded one for the doco would've gone a long way, one of the things I liked about "We're Smegged" the doco on the new series of Red Dwarf was that while Doug Naylor seemed to point his finger at Charles Armitage for a lot of the problems, Charles was there to fight for his corner and it went a long way to explain some things but then again this is only a minor complaint for a great doco and I'm not that surprised Connery didn't get involved.

So all in all, EON is a terrific doco that is required viewing for any and all Bond fans out there in the world, 5 out of 5.