The twisted James Bond movie you definitely missed (and have probably never even heard of) is now streaming and offers a psychedelically warped take on the iconic franchise, including all the dashing spies, evil villains, action, car chases, sex, and violence that have become synonymous with 007. So, while we await the arrival of Amazon’s James Bond reboot, which itself could be a grotesquely twisted take on the series (though for different reasons), why not leap headfirst into a completely different, yet eerily similar, Bond-esque adventure?
Centering on a retired spy whose violent past begins to catch up with him, all while he investigates the mystery behind a missing woman. Paying tuxedo-sporting homage to the world of Bond, as well as to the Eurospy movies of the swinging ‘60s, none of this will prepare you for the sheer insanity that’s unleashed as the former secret agent tumbles down the rabbit hole.
Titled Reflection in a Dead Diamond, the warped action thriller made its debut earlier this year at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival before hitting theaters, and has since been met with critical acclaim, landing a “score” of 83% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Reflection in a Dead Diamond Is James Bond by Way of David Lynch
While Reflection in a Dead Diamond pays unashamed tribute to James Bond (including its own trippy opening credits sequence in which our spy shoots diamonds from a gun and stabs someone with a miniature Eiffel Tower), it’s really an intoxicatingly kaleidoscopic onslaught of surreal madness wrapped up in a deceptive action thriller package. MovieWeb’s own Juan Barquin was deeply enamored with Reflection in a Dead Diamond, saying…
“Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a great work about how our histories – the most unique assignments, the most gorgeous vistas, the most violent actions, and the most sensual women – blend together once our time is up.”
Further reviews, such as Nightmare on Film Street’s Jonathan DeHaan, describe Reflection in a Dead Diamond as being “Like a James Bond movie written by Quetin Dupieux for David Lynch to direct,” with Isaac Feldberg of RogertEbert.com concluding, “Besides paying euphoric tribute to another genre that they clearly adore, Cattet and Forzani seem more confident than ever here in staging elaborate action sequences, bringing to breakneck car chases and brutal bar fights the same sleight of hand, point-precise construction, and maximalist sheen that’s governed their work to date.”
The uniquely insane action thriller is now streaming on several platforms, including 
Shudder and 
AMC+. Written and directed by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Amer, Let the Corpses Tan), Reflection in a Dead Diamond stars Fabio Testi as the former spy John Diman, with Yannick Renier playing young John in his 007-esque early years. While you can check out the official synopsis for Reflection in a Dead Diamond below, it really doesn’t do justice to the unbridled insanity that drives this truly one-of-a-kind action thriller…
“When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.”
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