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Thunderball is my favorite Bond film of Connery's tenure unpopular opinion I know. As much as I love the film I understand it has problems bloat being the biggest. Many scenes even I admit go on way longer than they should, this movie was groundbreaking for new underwater scenes something that had never been done before and its apparent they wanted to show off this break through.
I have already watched lapis molari Tomorrow Never Lies edit and I thoroughly enjoyed it, and he has done the same here as well reducing the underwater scenes was obvious and now more palatable and are much better paced especially the removal of that bad green screen at the end between Largo and Bond No sudden jarring edits either.
I do have qualms though the sound editing is off the voices are low compared to music and other sounds I got jump scared when the jet engine suddenly came on when James and the nurse were talking. Speaking of while I appreciate trying to restructure the beginning so the story is more in focus and James doesn't look like a future sexual harassments case it comes at the cost of motivation. Bond now investigates because he saw an ambulance pull in as if people don't have accidents at spas and health clinics and they may not want to disturb others. The scene removal of "grenades' being thrown into the water when bond is taking pictures of the yacht it no longer makes sense that he swims onto a beach and hitch hikes instead of just going back to Q immediately for the pictures.
I still recommend this edit while a few bad scenes and dodgy audio quality (the editor does provide subtitles) its still a fun watch the reduced underwater scenes alone reduce a lot of the tedium.