Not very good at all

I remember seeing this about seven years ago as part of Sean Connery double bill VHS cassette that was available for rent at the local library.

The other film was 'Wrong is Right' which looked dreadful and I didn't bother watching it.

The Anderson Tapes is one of Lumet's weakest films with ridiculous caricatures and no explanation of why Connery's every move is being taped.

I remember a bizarre line at the end of the film when Connery is caught by the police. He says something like:

'She always said I was banging on locked doors'

Was this supposed to give the film an air of tragedy? It just made me laugh to be honest and, yes, the music did get on my nerves.

Apparently Connery turned down a whopping $5.5 million to play Bond in Live and Let Die. I can understand him wanting to try other things but I don't understand why he moved away from Bond altogether when the other films he was doing at the same time were generally poor.

During his Bond days the only good film he did outside the franchise was The Hill.

He asked for a huge sum to do Diamonds are Forever and got it and was offered that vast amount for Live and Let Die.

I would have kept doing the Bond films one at a time and held the producers to ever more ridiculous ransoms.

The only good films he did for years after Diamonds are Forever (which admittedly was poo) are The Offence, which is very good, and The Man Who Would Be King, which is reasonable.