My name is Statham. Jason Statham...This was basically Bond!
Haha... So many references and almost verbatim scenes, especially channeling THUNDERBALL. We had the big jacht, the "Disco Volante", those little underwater jet ski pulling devices, the Bond girl emerging from a rescue pod on the ocean surface, and, and.. and of course the massive nuclear submarine facility underneath an island! All classic Bond ingredients, wouldn't you say? Oh, and don't forget the Bond-like electric guitar in the score...
Wow... I honestly couldn't stop whistling along all the classic Bond themes. Great fun! And what a great Blofeld Tommy Lee Jones would have been...