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Not the best, but certainly not the worst either, middle of the pack for me.
PROS:
The Jamaica and the Cuba Scene, I quite liked Nomi, she's fun, Paloma is stunning and very classical bond girl, the cinematography, the action sequence in Matera, some of the music I liked:
The Norway Chase, Shouldn't We Get To Know Each Other First, and Zimmer's bond theme is great, I felt a bit sad at Felix Leiter's death, the MI6 regulars are all great, Q being the best of them all, but the best thing here is Daniel Craig himself, he acted it on spades! I think the ending really works well, Craig makes sure that there's no leftovers, his death left me in shock, like Fleming said, Bond can't have a family, the reason why Fleming killed Vesper and Tracy, Tiffany Case left him for another man, and why Bond goes to Vladivostok instead of living with Kissy Suzuki, he's born to protect England.
CONS:
The relationship between Bond and Madeleine, I don't buy it because they have no chemistry and the age gap, Madeleine tried to be Tracy or Vesper, but fell short
Bond's suspicion of Madeleine was poorly handled, would have been better if it's Quantum instead of SPECTRE in the PTS.
Once it gets to London, things went downhill from there, and things got me bored when Bond arrived in Norway.
The daughter angle makes no sense.
Safin has the potential to be a great Bond Villain, such a missed opportunity.
The Nanobots plot is not written well, a bit messy.
Valdo Obruchev is a one hell of a racist, I laughed at him at first viewing, but no longer in the subsequent viewings.
It's like different storylines got mashed up in one movie.
Blofeld death was laughable.
The OHMSS callbacks felt unearned particularly the "We Have All The Time In The World", I associate that song with Bond and Tracy.
Rating: 3/5
Repeat viewings haven't been kind to the film, in my opinion, perhaps I'm just too close to it
"New Year's Eve came a little early this year!"
:))
Though some did and still do.
I was fighting back tears on opening night, I think it's the extreme close up of Bond, perfectly in time with the music, that does it
One of the best sendoffs for the end of an era, really - enjoying a pile of diamonds and Halle Berry in an isolated, beachside hut? It doesn't get better than that (and is certainly nicer than being blown to bits).
Brosnan's Bond's last line should have been, "Jinx, you're just killing me with these puns."
Completely. I wasn't 'in the film' in any way, shape or form. Such a difference to Casino Royale, where you felt for him, and were with him when he was only bruised and bleeding.
Yo Mama!
And yo GRAND-Mama!
I felt disappointment that they caved and killed Bond off, especially in the manner they did. It felt like a bad joke,
I'd love to know what the producers feelings were, when the credits rolled during the premiere. A friend of mine went and said it was like a funeral, everyone was in stunned silence and disbelief. Hw told me the biggest cheer of the night was the James Bond will return at the end of the credits
What a shame.
And it really does seem like the producers 'caved'. You're right.
The producers took a risk here by Killing Bond (and to a lesser extent giving him a child) and I have no problem with those ideas as long as they are handled properly, especially Bond's death.
I'm not a fan of the ending because of the way it was handled and the set up, if the ending was handled better and properly, and the set up that preceded it was good also, I would have liked it.
I mean all of the things that leads us to the ending or to Bond's death didn't make sense (Safin and the nanobots in particular) and seem to be forced, that makes the ending somehow anti-climactic and contrived.
I have no problem with the idea of killing him off, as long as it was handled properly and the plot is also great.
It was meant to be emotional and iconic, but no it didn't land.
True, to be honest, even the child angle, it just feels odd, exact word mate, Bizarre. I mean he has a child, he dies, it's weird, in the 60 years of James Bond, then suddenly when they made this move, I'm not impressed. I mean atleast for me, I just feel nothing at all.
When I first saw both the introduction scene of Mathilde and Bond being killed by missiles, I asked myself "okay, so what's next? What are they going to do, perhaps a reboot, but Bond is dead how will they bring him back, and will Mathilde show up in the next films like M, Q, Moneypenny, Felix Leiter? A recurring character?, Will she be a villain, what will happen to her?"
At my first viewing, I thought I'm watching a different movie and not a James Bond film, it's different.
Same here @FoxRox
That's how I felt too watching it, strangely disconnected. When the death happened, it took me right out of the movie completely.
I am finding it very hard to return to NTTD since. I don't think its a Bond classic that is endlessly rewatchable at all, and it has actually soured the Craig era now for me (which is a shame as I still have CR residing in my top 5).
What a mess.
For me, Bond's 'death' was the biggest miss-step in the series since 'let's do You Only Live Twice next'.
So, even if No Time To Die didn't end with Bond dying, I still not consider it as a good Bond Film, a great action movie yes, moreso than Fast and Furious, but as a Bond Film? No.
My issue here was it's different, it doesn't feel like a Bond film, it's like a movie trying to copy the Bond films, not authentic.
I'm criticizing Licence To Kill before because it doesn't look or feel like a Bond film, but now, No Time To Die made Licence To Kill a very Bondian bond film for me.