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1983 James Bail film directed past Irvin Kershner

Never Say Never Once more
A poster at the top of which are the words "SEAN CONNERY as JAMES BOND in". Below this is a head and shoulders image of man in a dinner suit. Inset either side of him, are smaller scale depictions of two women, one blonde and one brunette. Underneath the picture are the words "NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN"

British picture palace affiche past Renato Casaro
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Story past
  • Kevin McClory
  • Jack Whittingham
  • Ian Fleming
Based on Thunderball
by Ian Fleming
Produced past Jack Schwartzman
Starring
  • Sean Connery
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Max von Sydow
  • Barbara Carrera
  • Kim Basinger
  • Bernie Casey
  • Alec McCowen
  • Edward Fox
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
company

Taliafilm
Distributed past
  • Warner Bros. (U.S.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.Thousand.)[ane]

Release dates
  • 7 October 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.S.)
  • fifteen December 1983 (1983-12-xv) (U.M.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Language English
Budget $36 million
Box office $160 million[2]

Never Say Never Once again is a 1983 spy film directed past Irvin Kershner. The pic is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in plough was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adjusted in a 1965 moving-picture show of the same name. Never Say Never Again was non produced by Eon Productions, but by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The motion-picture show was executive produced by Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory retained the filming rights of the novel following a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the role of Bond for the seventh and final time, marker his return to the graphic symbol 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film's championship is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that role once more. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nearly three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never Once more was released by Warner Bros. on 7 October 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the acting of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise every bit more emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the day. The motion-picture show was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released before the same twelvemonth.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bail, 007, fails a routine preparation exercise, his superior, Grand, orders Bond to a health clinic outside London to get dorsum into shape. While at that place, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The human's face is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bail sees the patient using a automobile which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Blush, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to impale him in the clinic gym, but Bail manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her charge, a heroin-fond United States Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run past Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his right eye to get in match the retinal design of the US President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American military base of operations in England. While doing and then, he replaces the dummy warheads of two AGM-86B cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Chroma murders Petachi by causing his car to crash and explode, roofing SPECTRE's tracks.

Foreign Secretarial assistant Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bond follows a pb to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot'southward sis, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE's pinnacle agent.

Bond is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo'southward yacht is at present heading for Nice, France. At that place, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bail goes to a wellness and dazzler centre where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed past her that Largo is hosting an event at a casino that evening. At the charity event, Largo and Bond play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing actor of each plough receives a series of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. After losing a few games, Bond ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her brother had been killed on Largo'southward orders. Bond returns to his villa to observe Nicole killed by Chroma. Later a vehicle chase on his Q-co-operative motorbike, Bail finds himself in an ambush and is somewhen captured by Blush. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bond to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, and so uses his Q-co-operative-issue fountain pen gun to impale Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter attempt to board Largo's motor yacht, the Flight Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to make Largo jealous by kissing Domino in front of a two-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations in N Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond afterwards escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. Afterward the first warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known every bit the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter's team and Largo's men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the 2nd warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Just equally Largo tries to use a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother'due south decease. Bond then defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret agent.

Bandage [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire man of affairs and SPECTRE Number 1, SPECTRE's senior-most agent. He is based on the grapheme Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera equally Fatima Chroma; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt down and kill Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi, sister of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the film.
  • Bernie Casey equally Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen equally "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 department Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Flim-flam as "Thousand", Bond's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson equally Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Office representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahama islands, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach as Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to kill Bond at the clinic.
  • Anthony Precipitous as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretarial assistant who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi'due south brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[iii] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond moving-picture show, to be called Longitude 78 W,[four] which was later on abandoned because of the costs involved.[five] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a good idea lie idle",[v] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[vi] McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[7] and the affair was settled in 1963.[4] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, information technology subsequently made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not brand any further version of the novel for a menses of 10 years post-obit the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[8]

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[ix] A lawsuit with Eon Productions concluded in a ruling that McClory owned the sole rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld, forcing Eon to remove them from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).[ten] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Island every bit staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[10] The script ran into difficulties afterwards accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based only on the novel Thunderball, and again the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the terminate of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Cloak-and-dagger Service,[8] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that yet surrounded the project[10] [three] he decided against using Deighton's script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in gild to avoid some other lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the outcome in a 1980 presidential argue with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to make the screenplay "somewhere in the middle" betwixt his campier projects such every bit Batman and his more serious projects such as Three Days of the Condor.[10] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the piece of work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; all the same, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon'southward Albert R. Broccoli.[xiii] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project afterwards Irvin Kershner was hired as director and Schwartzman began cut out the "big numbers" from his script to relieve on the budget.[10] Connery then hired British goggle box writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[11] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script existence theirs. This was because of a restriction past the Writers Guild of America.[14] Clement and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering information technology from day to day.[10]

The film underwent ane concluding change in title: afterward Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[nine] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband'south vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the end credits "Championship Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A terminal attempt past Fleming's trustees to cake the film was made in the High Courtroom in London in the spring of 1983, just this was thrown out past the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to keep.[16]

Bandage and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the function of Bond,[17] although the project came to cypher because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the tardily 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade press, including Orson Welles for the function of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as director.[nine]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going caput-to-head with the next Eon Bail film, Moonraker.[xviii] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[nineteen] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, equally he stated in an interview in the Lord's day Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no idea of actually beingness in the film."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 one thousand thousand ($8 million in 2022 dollars[21]), casting and script approving, and a pct of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bail's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the movie, such as the Shrubland'southward porter referring to Bond'due south machine ("They don't make them similar that anymore"), the new M having no utilize for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bail's age even farther, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish angling trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Body of water.[10] Connery's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help get in shape for the product.[10]

For the main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow equally Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he still retained his Eon-originated white cat in the film.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy encompass daughter Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[fourteen] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little scrap of blackness widow and a niggling bit of praying mantis."[10] Carrera'due south performance equally Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Earth Honor nomination for All-time Supporting Extra,[27] which she lost to Cher for her function in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met up-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed after Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that as the Leiter role was never remembered past audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would afterwards parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson'south character was added by Clement and La Frenais after the product had already started in social club to provide the picture with a comic relief.[ten] Edward Fox was cast as Thousand in order to portray the character as a young technocrat in dissimilarity to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry's budget cuts to government services.[x]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, simply after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Onetime Eon Productions' editor and managing director of On Her Majesty's Hole-and-corner Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to straight the moving picture simply declined due to his previous work with Eon.[xxx] Irvin Kershner, who had previously worked with Connery on A Fine Madness (1966), and had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including commencement assistant director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit director Mickey Moore and product designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[24] [31]

Filming [edit]

A large, sleek ship is moored at a quayside

The Kingdom 5KR which acted as Largo'southward ship, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Once again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for 2 months[14] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-Nov[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also i of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, then owned by Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and called the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed by Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[10] Main photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree too housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [x] Most of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Production on the film was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant manager David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, maxim that, while he was a good businessman, "he didn't take the experience of a moving-picture show producer".[32] After the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund farther production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the flick would price to make.[35] There was tension on set between Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism behind the scenes and was on record equally saying that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this movie, broke Connery'due south wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Testify with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was cleaved until over a decade later.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman's first choice to compose the score afterwards being impressed with his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the time, wound upward unavailable co-ordinate to Kershner, though Schwartzman later claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bail composer John Barry was invited, but declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Again was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his work as a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the most disappointing characteristic of the film".[24] Legrand as well wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics past Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the Academy Honor-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"[40] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] later on Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the vocal, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman as well recorded a potential theme song, written past Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, simply the song — an unsolicited submission — was passed over, given Legrand's contractual obligations with the music.[42]

Legal substitutions [edit]

The outlines of row upon row of "007 007 007 007 007" fill the screen. A view of countryside, heavily obstructed can be seen in through the gaps.

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bond films were not present in Never Say Never Again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen total of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bond Theme" to employ, although no effort was made to supply another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed simply not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the pinnacle of the opening sequence of Bail on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on vii October 1983 in ane,550 theatres grossing an October tape $10,958,157 over the iv-day Columbus Mean solar day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the all-time opening record of any James Bond moving-picture show" up to that bespeak[44] surpassing Octopussy 'due south $8.ix million from June that yr. The film had its Uk premiere at the Warner West End cinema in Leicester Square on 14 December 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 million.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.five million.[46] [47] It was the offset James Bond film to be officially released in the Soviet Spousal relationship, premiering in the summertime of 1990 with a gala in Moscow.[48]

Warner Bros. released Never Say Never Once more on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[50] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, below), the company has released the moving picture on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Contemporary reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Again was broadly welcomed and praised by the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Once again was "one of the better Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie too thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if annihilation, is more highly-seasoned than always equally the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, proverb that: "Connery ... is dorsum, looking hardly a 24-hour interval older or thicker, and still outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex and violence on the way".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very near make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Fourth dimension Out summed up Never Say Never Again maxim "The action'due south good, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played past a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bond, saying the motion picture contains "the best Bail in the concern",[56] just nevertheless did not find Never Say Never Again any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russian federation with Honey".[56] Malcolm'south principal issue with the film was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a desire to brand a huge box-office success and the endeavour to make character as important every bit stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – upwardly to scratch but not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted picture ends upward making no contribution of its own and inviting dissentious comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French ended that "similar an 60 minutes-glass full of damp sand, the picture show moves with increasing slowness as it approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early office of the film was handled "with wit and style",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple'due south script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the flick and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer'south graphic symbol was "played with silky, neurotic amuse",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who accept slithered through Bond'south career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the render of Connery, observing "it is good to run across Connery's grave stylishness in this role again. Information technology makes Bond'southward pessimism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and world weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, maxim she thought that Never Say Never Once more "has noticeably more humor and character than the Bail films commonly provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[sixty] Maslin too thought highly of Connery in the part, observing that "in Never Say Never Once more, the formula is broadened to accommodate an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the bill."[60] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Once again is "ane of the all-time James Bail adventure thrillers always made",[61] going on to say that "this movie is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went farther, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond pic ever fabricated, considering it conspicuously surpasses any predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character depiction".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott, besides praised the motion picture, saying that Never Say Never Again "may exist the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a first-rate manager."[62] According to Scott, the manager, with high-quality support cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the film iii½ out of iv stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was different from other Bond films: "For one thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "at that place was never a Beatles reunion ... but hither, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Good work, 007."[63] Cistron Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the moving picture 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the film was "one of the all-time 007 adventures ever fabricated".[64]

Colin Greenland reviewed Never Say Never Again for Imagine magazine, and stated that "Never Say Never Over again is a complacent male sexist fantasy, where women tin be only femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Once again is not an Eon-produced moving picture, it has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967'southward Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this listing, just every bit they're absent from MGM's megabox. Merely take my give-and-take for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged 70% of the reviews as positive, with an average rating of 5.60/10. The site'southward critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the render of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bond make Never Say Never Once again a watchable retread."[67] The score is still more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Over again 16th amidst all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted boilerplate score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film three of a possible v stars, observing that "Connery was perchance wise to phone call it quits the commencement time round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Once more a score of 5 out of 10, claiming that the film "is more miss than hitting".[71] The review likewise idea that the flick was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and non enough moments of Bond being Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the ninth best Bail film to that betoken, afterwards 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the flick "is successful only as a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "fifty-fifty past his prime, Connery proves that nobody does it meliorate".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Once more, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a motion-picture show which has "a hokey, jokey experience, [it] is perchance the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major thwarting that, having lured dorsum the original 007, the film makers couldn't offer him something improve than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "information technology was great to see Sean Connery return as James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He besides idea the supporting cast was good, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... 1 of the most complex of Bond'southward foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary also wrote that the "picture is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be i of the best Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't work because viewers usually can't tell the hero and villain apart and they know doubles are being used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Once again was intended to start a series of Bond films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bond, with McClory announcing the next planned moving-picture show Due south.P.East.C.T.R.Due east in a February 1984 issue of Screen International.[75] When Connery appear that he would not reprise his role as Bond in another film produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the deadline to purchase the rights to another film for $5 meg, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another film without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory appear plans to make another accommodation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 Ad, merely the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory's rights for an undisclosed corporeality,[4] and after appear that it intended to brand a series of Bond films, equally the company also held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This motility prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to requite upward all claims on Bond; McClory yet claimed he would proceed with some other Bail motion-picture show,[79] and continued his case against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 Baronial 2001 the court rejected McClory's suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'southward acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to brand a serious, non-satirical film adaptation of that novel the aforementioned year with Daniel Craig as James Bail. Ultimately, McClory'due south heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the film Spectre.

On iv December 1997, MGM announced that the company had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Again from Schwartzman'south company Taliafilm.[82] [83] The company has since handled the release of both the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the flick.[84] [52]

See also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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