A poster for Goldfinger, but it’s in the Craig era.
MI6 sends James Bond on a mission to infiltrate a Mexican drug laboratory, after which he vacations in Miami Beach. While he is there, Felix Leiter tells Bond that M has orders for him to spy on one particular man at the hotel he is staying at: the millionaire Auric Goldfinger (Ian McKellen). He finds Goldfinger cheating at a gin rummy game with the help of his assistant, Jill Masterson (Sasha Alexander). He interrupts the game before blackmailing Goldfinger into losing. Bond sleeps with Jill, just before Goldfinger’s bodyguard Oddjob (Sung Kang) barges into the room and knocks Bond out. Bond wakes up to find Jill dead from being covered with toxic gold paint all over.
The Governor of the Bank of England tells Bond that gold prices have been varying in recent years, allowing for someone to easily sell gold internationally. He suspects Goldfinger to be doing the same thing, and orders Bond to find out how Goldfinger is smuggling gold across international borders, so he goes off on a mission to find out. Q supplies him with an Aston Martin DB5 and 2 tracking devices.
Bond meets Goldfinger again at a country club in Kent, where they play some golf. Goldfinger tries to cheat but Bond catches him in the act. Goldfinger catches onto Bond and sternly warns him not to interfere, with Oddjob demonstrating his strength and a hat with a hidden blade in the rim. Before Goldfinger leaves, Bond attaches a tracking device to his car, and tracks him to Switzerland. There, he meets Tilly Masterson, sister of Jill, who is also trying to kill Goldfinger for what he did to her sister.
Bond sneaks into a refinery after seeing some of Goldfinger’s cars entering it. He overhears a conversation with Goldfinger telling Chinese nuclear physicist Ling that he adds gold to his Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph vehicles to smuggle it out of England and get it past authorities. He also hears Goldfinger mention something about an “Operation Grand Slam”. He sees Tilly, and chases after her to warn her about Goldfinger’s presence. In the process, he trips an alarm, and Oddjob chases them both. Ultimately, Tilly is killed by Oddjob’s hat, while Bond is captured and strapped to a table with a laser slowly moving towards him, to slice him in half.
Bond tells Goldfinger that he has reported to MI6 all about Grand Slam. Goldfinger decides to spare him, leaving him alive for MI6 to see and think he is safe.BOND: Do you expect me to talk?
GOLDFINGER: No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.
Bond, still captive, is flown to Goldfinger’s estate by the pilot Pussy Galore (Gina Carano). He escapes his cell, and overhears more about Operation Grand Slam from a conversation with some conspirators. Goldfinger plans to breach the gold reserve at Fort Knox by releasing a poisonous gas which will kill the military personnel. The conspirators mock Goldfinger’s scheme, and one demands more payment. This conspirator manages to escape before the other conspirators are killed via the poisonous gas. Bond is recaptured by Galore, but slips a tracking device in the conspirator’s pockets to alert the CIA. Oddjob catches up to the conspirator, kills him, and crushes his body, along with the tracker, in a compactor.
Bond tells Goldfinger it would be impossible to move the gold away from Fort Knox before the military intervenes, at which point Goldfinger unveils his true plan: using a cobalt bomb, he will irradiate the gold reserve at Fort Knox, rendering it unusable and increasing the value of his own gold. He warns that there is another bomb in the Federal Reserve Bank in New York in case Bond tries to interfere.
The CIA catches wind of Operation Grand Slam after an anonymous tip from Goldfinger’s estate, and makes preparations for an ambush in case of an attack on Fort Knox. Just as they arrive, Galore uses her Flying Circus to spray the poisonous gas, “killing” everybody present, including Felix Leiter. Leiter then receives a call… from James Bond. A flashback reveals that Bond had managed to seduce Galore and persuaded her to alert the CIA using an anonymous tip. The ambush continues as both the US military and Goldfinger’s henchmen storm Fort Knox, engaging in a confrontation with each other. Bond tells Leiter about the bomb in the Federal Reserve, resulting in its de-activation concurrently with the events at Fort Knox. Bond enters the vault to personally stop Goldfinger, but he is handcuffed to the bomb by the henchman, Kisch. Goldfinger locks the vault and leaves in his private jet.
Bond, Oddjob, and Kisch are trapped within the vault. Kisch tries to defuse the bomb, but is killed by a still-loyal Oddjob. Bond frees himself, resulting in a duel with Oddjob. Bond manages to electrocute Oddjob using his metal hat, but is unable to defuse the bomb himself. US troops enter after killing all of Goldfinger’s henchmen outside. With only 7 seconds left on the clock, an atomic specialist manages to deactivate the cobalt bomb.
Days later, Bond is being flown to Washington, DC, to have lunch with the US President. Goldfinger’s private plane catches up to them, and Goldfinger is able to hijack Bond’s plane. A scuffle ensues, resulting in Goldfinger falling from the plane wing to his death. Bond manages to land the plane at a nearby US Army facility.
The movie ends with Bond and Galore on their way to Washington, DC via an armored military vehicle.
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