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1983 James Bail film directed by Irvin Kershner

Never Say Never Again
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 cinema affiche by Renato Casaro
Directed past Irvin Kershner
Screenplay past 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 Play a trick on
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
company

Taliafilm
Distributed past
  • Warner Bros. (U.Southward.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.One thousand.)[one]

Release dates
  • vii October 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.S.)
  • xv December 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.K.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • U.k.
  • Us
Language English
Upkeep $36 meg
Box office $160 million[ii]

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

Sean Connery played the role of Bond for the seventh and final time, marking his return to the grapheme 12 years subsequently Diamonds Are Forever. The film's title is a reference to Connery's reported annunciation in 1971 that he would "never" play that role again. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nearly 3 years younger than incumbent Bail Roger Moore, the storyline features an crumbling 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 Again 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 as more than emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the day. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the same year.

Plot [edit]

Afterward MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine preparation exercise, his superior, M, orders Bond to a health clinic outside London to go dorsum into shape. While there, Bail witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face up is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a car which scans his heart. Bond is seen by Blush, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, but Bail manages to kill Lippe.

Chroma and her charge, a heroin-fond United States Air Strength pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his right eye to make information technology match the retinal pattern of the Us President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American armed forces base in England. While doing 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 automobile to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE'southward tracks.

Foreign Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bail follows a atomic number 82 to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot's sis, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'south height agent.

Bond is informed past Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo'southward yacht is now heading for Prissy, France. In that location, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bail goes to a health and beauty center where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by 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 histrion of each turn receives a series of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the corporeality wagered. Later on losing a few games, Bail 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 notice Nicole killed by Blush. After a vehicle chase on his Q-co-operative motorbike, Bail finds himself in an ambush and is eventually 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, then uses his Q-branch-outcome fountain pen gun to impale Blush with an explosive sprint.

Bond and Leiter attempt to board Largo'southward motor yacht, the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to brand Largo jealous by kissing Domino in forepart of a two-mode mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations in Due north Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her expose by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond subsequently escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. After the first warhead is institute and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian declension. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter's team and Largo'southward men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bail catches and fights Largo underwater. Just equally Largo tries to utilise a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother'due south death. Bail then defuses the nuclear flop underwater, saving the earth. Bail retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret amanuensis.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bail, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer every bit Maximillian Largo, a billionaire man of affairs and SPECTRE Number ane, SPECTRE'southward senior-almost amanuensis. He is based on the graphic symbol Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera every bit Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt downwards and impale Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi, sis of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the moving-picture show.
  • Bernie Casey every bit Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Trick as "M", Bail's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Office representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon every bit Lady in Bahamas, 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 dispensary.
  • Anthony Sharp as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretarial assistant who orders 1000 to reactivate the Double-0 department.
  • Prunella Gee equally Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the dispensary.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy equally Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used past SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Once again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[3] Fleming had worked with contained producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond picture show, to exist called Longitude 78 West,[4] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[five] Fleming, "e'er reluctant to let a skillful idea lie idle",[v] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[6] McClory so took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[vii] and the affair was settled in 1963.[iv] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently fabricated a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and so not make any further version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[viii]

In the mid-1970s McClory over again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to product and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to piece of work on a script.[ix] A lawsuit with Eon Productions ended 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).[10] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Liberty Isle and Ellis Island every bit staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased past Paramount Pictures in 1978.[ten] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the projection had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a picture show based but on the novel Thunderball, and once once again the projection was deferred.[8]

Towards the finish of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the proper name James Bail of the Clandestine Service,[8] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the project[ten] [3] he decided against using Deighton's script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and later McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the consequence in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on lath scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to make the screenplay "somewhere in the eye" between his campier projects such as 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; yet, Mankiewicz declined equally he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project subsequently Irvin Kershner was hired as managing director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the budget.[10] Connery then hired British television receiver 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 beingness theirs. This was because of a brake past the Writers Guild of America.[14] Clement and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering it from day to day.[x]

The moving-picture show underwent 1 terminal change in title: later on Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond over again.[9] Connery's married woman, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Once again, referring to her husband's vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past listing on the finish credits "Title Never Say Never Again past Micheline Connery". A final attempt past Fleming'south trustees to block the motion-picture show was made in the High Court in London in the bound of 1983, but this was thrown out past the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[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 role of Bond,[17] although the project came to nothing because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead projection was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the merchandise press, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as managing director.[9]

In 1978, the working championship James Bond of the Hugger-mugger Service was being used and Connery was in the frame in one case once more, potentially going head-to-head with the side by side Eon Bond picture show, Moonraker.[18] Past 1980, with legal issues over again causing the project to founder,[xix] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, equally he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I starting time worked on the script with Len I had no thought of really being in the film."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bail; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 1000000 ($8 million in 2022 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percentage of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bond'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 historic period and disillusionment in the film, such every bit the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond'due south car ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new Thou having no use for the 00 department and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond'due south historic period fifty-fifty farther, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish line-fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the Northward Bounding main.[10] Connery's casting was formally appear in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to aid make it shape for the production.[10]

For the primary villain in the moving-picture show, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[24] Through the aforementioned road came Max von Sydow equally Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he all the same retained his Eon-originated white cat in the moving picture.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy comprehend daughter Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the proper noun coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[xiv] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little bit of black widow and a little bit of praying mantis."[ten] Carrera's performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Honour nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her office in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met upwardly-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed afterward Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the office of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, proverb that as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a blackness Leiter might make him more than memorable.[24] Others bandage included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his role of Johnny English language in 2003.[29] Atkinson's grapheme was added by Clement and La Frenais after the production had already started in order to provide the motion-picture show with a comic relief.[10] Edward Trick was bandage as Grand in club to portray the character as a immature technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry'southward budget cuts to government services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, but afterwards coming together Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] One-time Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Cloak-and-dagger Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the film simply declined due to his previous work with Eon.[30] Irvin Kershner, who had previously worked with Connery on A Fine Madness (1966), and had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Dorsum was then hired. A number of the coiffure from the 1981 motion-picture show Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, 2nd unit of measurement director Mickey Moore and production 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's ship, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[xiv] before moving to Nassau, the Bahama islands in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo'due south Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's ship, the Flight Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, so owned by Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and called the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed past Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[ten] Master photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cave, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [10] Near of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although in that location was some boosted shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Production on the moving-picture show was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the product duties with banana manager David Tomblin.[32] Managing director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a skilful businessman, "he didn't accept the experience of a film producer".[32] Afterwards the production ran out of coin, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and afterwards admitted he had underestimated the corporeality the film would cost to make.[35] There was tension on set betwixt 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 as saying that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts teacher for this film, broke Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did non know his wrist was broken until over a decade afterward.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman'due south first option to compose the score later on being impressed with his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the time, wound upwardly unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman later claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bond composer John Barry was invited, but declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Over 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 near disappointing feature of the film".[24] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the Academy Honor-winning song "The Windmills of Your Heed"[40] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] later Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman besides recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but 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 Bail 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 at that place was no "James Bail Theme" to use, although no effort was made to supply another melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed only not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a preparation mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on 7 October 1983 in ane,550 theatres grossing an October tape $10,958,157 over the four-day Columbus Day weekend[2] which was reported to exist "the best opening record of whatsoever James Bond motion-picture show" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.9 million from June that year. The film had its Britain premiere at the Warner W End movie theatre in Leicester Foursquare on 14 December 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid render on the budget of $36 one thousand thousand.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 meg.[46] [47] It was the beginning James Bond film to exist officially released in the Soviet Wedlock, premiering in the summer of 1990 with a gala in Moscow.[48]

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

Gimmicky reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Again was broadly welcomed and praised past the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Over again was "one of the improve Bonds",[53] finding the picture "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is well-baked and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie also idea that "Connery has lost none of his amuse and, if anything, is more appealing than ever as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a day 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 every bit Maximillian Largo "very most make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Fourth dimension Out summed upward Never Say Never Again saying "The action's practiced, the photography splendid, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is again played past a human with the correct stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bail, saying the picture show contains "the best Bond in the business organisation",[56] but still did non find Never Say Never Over again whatever more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Dearest".[56] Malcolm's principal issue with the film was that he had a "feeling that a abiding struggle was going on betwixt a want to brand a huge box-part success and the attempt to make character as important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the aforementioned – upward to scratch but not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted movie ends upwards making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an hour-glass full of clammy sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness equally it approaches a dislocated climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early part of the motion-picture show was handled "with wit and style",[58] although he went on to say that the manager was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple's script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the moving-picture show and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer'southward grapheme was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bond'southward career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the render of Connery, observing "it is expert to come across Connery'south grave stylishness in this role once more. It makes Bail's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and globe weariness) every bit opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, saying she thought that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more humor and graphic symbol than the Bond films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[lx] Maslin likewise thought highly of Connery in the role, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to accommodate an older, seasoned homo of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the nib."[60] Writing in The Washington Postal service, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Over again is "one of the all-time James Bond adventure thrillers e'er made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its near astute and achieved."[61] Arnold went farther, maxim that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond moving-picture show ever made, because it clearly surpasses whatsoever predecessors in the surface area of inventive and clever grapheme depiction".[61]

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

Colin Greenland reviewed Never Say Never Once again for Imagine mag, and stated that "Never Say Never Once more is a complacent male sexist fantasy, where women can be simply femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Considering Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced film, information technology has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Once again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just every bit they're absent from MGM's megabox. But take my word for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged lxx% of the reviews as positive, with an average rating of 5.threescore/10. The site'south critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bond make Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is all the same more than positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Again 16th amidst all Bail films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on fifteen critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the motion-picture show three of a possible 5 stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to call it quits the first time circular".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of 10, challenge that the flick "is more miss than hit".[71] The review too thought that the film 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 Once again as the 9th all-time Bond film to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the moving picture "is successful just every bit a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even past his prime, Connery proves that nobody does it better".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Once more, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a film which has "a hokey, jokey feel, [information technology] is possibly the worst-written Bail script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "information technology's a major thwarting that, having lured back the original 007, the moving-picture show makers couldn't offer him something better than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was great to see Sean Connery return as James Bail later a dozen years".[74] He likewise thought the supporting bandage was good, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the most complex of Bond's 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 exist ane of the best Bail 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 Again was intended to commencement a series of Bond films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery equally James Bond, with McClory announcing the side by side planned film Southward.P.E.C.T.R.Eastward in a February 1984 issue of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his role every bit Bond in some other film produced by Schwartzman 3 weeks earlier the deadline to purchase the rights to another film for $5 million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another flick without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory appear plans to make another adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 AD, but the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory's rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and subsequently announced that it intended to brand a series of Bond films, as the visitor also held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This move prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to give up all claims on Bond; McClory nevertheless claimed he would go along with another Bond film,[79] and continued his instance against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 Baronial 2001 the court rejected McClory's suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'due south acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical picture adaptation of that novel the same year with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon serial in the film Spectre.

On 4 December 1997, MGM announced that the company had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Over 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 moving-picture show.[84] [52]

Encounter as well [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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  • Never Say Never Once more at Box Office Mojo
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