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No Time to Die<\/strong> (2021)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UA\/Action-Adventure-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 163 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (sequences of violence and action, some disturbing images, brief strong language, some suggestive material)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Hans Zimmer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Linus Sandgren\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 8, 2021 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik, Roy Kinnear, Dali Benssalah, Lisa-Dorah Sonnet, Coline Defaud, Mathilde Bourbin.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0It\u2019s no secret that Daniel Craig will be retiring his license to kill after No Time to Die<\/strong>. He\u2019s had enough of playing British superspy James Bond and wants to move on to other roles. I\u2019m pleased to report the 25th<\/sup> film in the long-running franchise (nearly 60 years!) is a fitting send-off. It\u2019s GREAT albeit a bit on the long side. It runs an epic 163 minutes! What is this, a Marvel movie? \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation), the plot of No Time to Die<\/strong> is (mostly) typical 007 silliness. It has everything we\u2019ve come to expect like the MacGuffin, Talking Villain, Secret Lair, Bond Girls, thrilling score and gadgets created by exasperated quartermaster Q (Whishaw, Mary Poppins Returns). The MacGuffin in this case is a weaponized virus (\u201cProject Heracles\u201d) that can attack a specific person through his\/her DNA. Everybody is after it; MI6, the CIA and others including Bond\u2019s newest adversary Lyutsifer Safin (Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody), a deranged piece of work with an affinity for poisons and a personal connection to 007 romantic interest Madeleine Swann (Seydoux, Blue Is the Warmest Color).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As I\u2019m sure you recall, Bond and Madeleine drove off into the sunset together at the end of the previous Bond movie, 2015\u2019s Spectre. An extended prologue gives us a bit of insight into her childhood before catching up with the couple enjoying quality time in Italy. That is, until Spectre agents try to kill Bond while he\u2019s visiting the grave of old flame Vesper Lynd (from Casino Royale). Convinced Madeleine set him up, he puts her on a train with the intention of never seeing her again. This leads into the opening titles sequence with the title song sung by Billie Eilish.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Lik everything else in the world, Bond Girls changed over the years. They\u2019re no longer the bevy of beauties that invariably end up in the sack with our libidinous lothario. The new Bond Girls are bad-ass babes more than capable of holding their own next to our tough, stalwart hero. The latest entrants to the club are Nomi (Lynch, Captain Marvel), the female MI6 agent that succeeded Bond as Agent 007, and Paloma (Armas, Knives Out), the CIA agent who aids Bond in Cuba when he goes to capture the mad scientist (Dencik, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) that created the virus. They\u2019re both good in their respective roles; I truly hope Paloma turns up in future installments. I\u2019m fairly certain we\u2019ll see Lynch again.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Fukunaga cites On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service as his favorite Bond movie. It shows in No Time to Die<\/strong>. Like the sole entry starring George Lazenby, there\u2019s a love story at the center of the action. As is typical of many relationships, what he has with Madeleine is complicated. The daughter of an old adversary, he doesn\u2019t trust that she\u2019s not involved with SPECTRE. They part ways after the incident in Italy only for fate to bring them together again five years later. It\u2019s still complicated, but now it\u2019s compounded by a factor that didn\u2019t exist before. Their story adds a level of humanity to a series predicated upon a superhuman character. In her, he sees hope for a future that doesn\u2019t involving chasing bad guys all over the world. The question is do they really have \u201call the time in the world\u201d?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0No Time to Die<\/strong> totally delivers on the action part of the deal. \u00a0It has a few brilliantly staged action set pieces including the climax in the villain\u2019s secret lair where he\u2019s hatching his evil plan to take over the world. Physically, Craig pulls out all the stops with some of the niftiest stunts in his tenure as 007. He may be older than when he first started, but age doesn\u2019t appear to have slowed him down any. As always, the scenarios are fairly ludicrous, but hasn\u2019t that always been a trademark of James Bond actioners?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As the newest Bond baddie, Malek does a good job. His performance is a neat blend of sinister and camp. His character Safin is truly evil in how he goes after Bond. I won\u2019t give details, but it shows how truly depraved he is. But is he among the best Bond baddies? I wouldn\u2019t say that. He\u2019s cool in his own right, but pales in comparison to the likes of Goldfinger, Blofeld or Le Chiffre. The rest of the supporting cast, which includes Ralph Fiennes (the Harry Potter movies) as MI6 head M and Naomie Harris (Venom: Let There Be Carnage) as M\u2019s receptionist Miss Moneypenny, acquit themselves nicely. All of them do a fine job.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Craig delivers a solid performance in his final go-around as James Bond. He allows his character to let down his guard thus exposing the layer of vulnerability beneath the tough exterior. He loves Madeleine and wants to be with her. In order to do so, he needs to learn to trust. Their love story is actually rather moving. It helps that the actors have good chemistry. Seydoux is very good as the damaged Madeleine, somebody who never fully recovered from a terrible childhood trauma.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I\u2019m not going to drop any spoilers; HOWEVER, I would like to mention that I\u2019m shocked about the death of a major Bond character in No Time to Die<\/strong>. I won\u2019t name names, but this individual should have been allowed to stick around for a few more movies. Aside from that, I really like No Time to Die<\/strong> a lot. It\u2019s a great send-off for the best Bond since Roger Moore. It\u2019s also a solid action movie. You\u2019ll cheer, you\u2019ll laugh, you might even cry. For me, I was glad to finally get to see it after a long, long delay due to COVID. It was absolutely worth the long, long wait!<\/p>\r\n No Time to Die (2021)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UA\/Action-Adventure-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 163 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (sequences of violence and action, some disturbing images, brief strong language, some suggestive material)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Hans Zimmer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Linus Sandgren\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 8, 2021 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Daniel Craig, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-adventure","category-james-bond-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/No-Time-to-Die-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/No-Time-to-Die-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C918&ssl=1\")
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