No Time to DieDune: It was sort of okay. Much better than the 80s movie, but still a fantasy for kids. This is the first of a three-part series I understand. It's more like a Red Sonia formula with much better effects. String-bean hero kid taking on 'roid-o-muscular dudes is hilarious Saturday matinee fare.
No Time to Die: Hollywood bleeders got to the 007 script, making the same disastrous screw up that happened in 1969 with On Her Majesty's Secret Service box office flop. They even use the same music, cheap buggers. James Bond, family man, Dad, played by a too old to be believable Daniel Craig, with a wife who could be his granddaughter. The movie is all-wet, but still action packed. Motorcycle enthusiasts will be in stitches at the stunts. To their credit they do bring back the Ian Flemingesque creepy goons that add humour to the Bond formula. Of course, Hollywood script writers have to have tragic villains these days, with bad childhoods and redeeming features, sort of like the disasterpiece that was Joker. Watch this movie for the stunts and the action.
Some partial spoilers.
Just watched it. Didn’t mind it. It was missing “something” though. Craig brought an edge to Bond that I liked but it didn’t seem to be here in this one. This was a film that seemed wrapped around the story of Bond as Craig, leaving. One thing I always liked about the Bond films were the locations and even though this one hopscotched around the globe a bit the locations were a bit forgettable to me save for the opening scenes. Another thing that bugged me was the way it was filmed too. The cinematic/audio trick with an explosion deafening Bond at the start was neat with the music change and all….but then they did it again later and it seemed a bit naff, like the director had found a neat trick and wanted to keep doing it. The massive set for the final scenes seemed a bit wasted, I thought they could have done so much more with that. The “farm” was interesting but they didn’t go anywhere with it.
Hard to fathom how they are going to bring the next Bond in as this one severed all ties to the character. Not that I’m a cinematic genius or anything but I would have introduced the new Bond somehow at the end of the film as a “to be continued” feature and I don’t know that the ending they had for Craig was the right one. Right now I have a horrible feeling they might “woke“ this one a bit somehow.