On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) ten gumboot." Zec was kinder to Lazenby's co-star, saying that "there is style to Diana Rigg's performance and I suspect that the last scene which draws something of a performance out of Lazenby owes much to her silken expertise." "The New York Times" critic AH Weiler also weighed in against Lazenby, saying that "Lazenby, if not a spurious Bond, is merely a casual, pleasant, satisfactory replacement." One of the few supporters of Lazenby amongst the critics was Alexander Walker in the "London Evening Standard" who said that "The truth is that George Lazenby is almost as good a James Bond
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) The filmmaker Steven Soderbergh writes that "For me there's no question that cinematically "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is the best Bond film and the only one worth watching repeatedly for reasons other than pure entertainment ... Shot to shot, this movie is beautiful in a way none of the other Bond films are". The director Christopher Nolan also saw "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" as his favourite Bond film; in describing its influence on his own film, "Inception", Nolan said, "What I liked about it that we've tried to emulate in this film is there's a tremendous balance in