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No, but one who does is A.A. Dowd at AV Club, who says Craig is too long in the tooth. Most reviews are lathering lavish praise on Craig’s performance, but Dowd says DC is borderline bored.
https://www.avclub.com/no-time-to-die-is-a-sentimental-unsatisfying-end-to-th-1847765251
I don’t know. I hold Dowd in pretty high regards as a writer, but he’s definitely an outlier on this
I used to be a regular reader of the AA club but have gone off them entirely lately. I generally think well of Dowd too, but not so for the platform generally, so I suppose I'll take that review with a grain or two of salt.
Absolutely with you there. AV Club has deteriorated shockingly over the last couple of years. Dowd is the only writer I still read on that site.
Yes I know. One review says there is hardly any action, and other says there is too much.
Oh, Craig looks TERRIFIC in this. Aside from Lazenby I'd go so far as to say he's the Bond actor who looks the best in their final film haha
Of course not. I meant the Dutch. 😄
For a franchise that’s 60 years old, fans truly do look for different things. If EON had made a movie like DR. NO where it was made more in the vein of a Fleming spy thriller with minimal action beats I don’t think it would be well received. DN as it is only gets a pass today because it was the first and fans understand the formula wasn’t solidified.
Nope mate, we are now 88% and 51 reviews. at this low numbers, one negative review bring it all down
Haha! :))
Of course not, the reel has been left on a shelf for 3 years.
I’m just looking forward to seeing NTTD and forgetting all about the positive, yet upsetting and mixed reactions that I’ve read so far. As long as it’s
better than Spectre, I think I’ll be alright.
But I do love them. And I’ll love this one.
Still, I hope they scale down the spectacle and streamline any future films. Historically they have done just that. After the zaniness of MR we got FYEO and what a fantastic spy thriller that movie is.
Hence the Funny AND the Emotionally Heavy ! Ain't that life, though ?
After so many films it is perfectly fine to do things differently, and this has been true a long while -- starting with OHMSS ! Never mind the "Purists" - if you just make another one according to formula they'll complain of a lack of originality and that it merely copies other, earlier, superior works. Nonsense. Different group, but over in Star Wars land, if anything is too familiar the criticism erupts for copying earlier work, and if anything is different they whine, piss and moan about that. Screw 'em all. Make art. Do good work.
Given the inevitable hit this film will have to take with its triple marketing campaigns, that may be an inevitability.