Most James Bond movies include some diving but Thunderball is by far the wettest. This was the fourth Bond and Sean Connery was still playing the Man.

Plotwise, it's pretty much standard fare. SPECTRE hijacks a plane with atomic weapons onboard and hides it underwater. You can guess the rest.

There is a ton of diving in Thunderball. Bond rescues a Bond-girl who gets stuck underwater while freediving; SPECTRE divers work on the downed plane; Bond makes a couple of reconnaissance dives to the bad guy's boat; Bond even manages to get in a bit of underwater fornication -- of course it's done behind a rock so all we see are the bubbles. "I hope we didn't frighten the fish," he says once back on the beach.

The climax is an underwater battle scene with a large platoon of speargun-toting SPECTRE divers going mano-a-mano against a similarly sized phalanx of speargun-toting divers representing the forces of niceness. Luckily, the two sides wear different colored wetsuits so we can tell them apart.

We're sure this is all supposed to be very exciting but it just isn't. To be honest, we're not big Bond fans but from what we can gather, Thunderball is not much of a hit even with those who are. And as for all the diving, it gets old quickly.