Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
If it is not a great film, it is a great entertainment, and contains all the elements of the Bond formula that would work again and again.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
... what they give us in Goldfinger is an excess of-science-fiction fun, a mess of mechanical melodrama and a minimum of bedroom farce.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Presented here in a newly restored digital print, it should look especially swish on the big screen.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
This 1964 entry is the most enjoyable of the James Bond thrillers starring Sean Connery -- perhaps because it's the most comic and cartoony in look as well as conception.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
6 May 2008
fresh:
There's not the least sign of staleness in this third sample of the Bond 007 formula.