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1983 James Bond film directed by 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 movie house poster by Renato Casaro
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Story by
  • Kevin McClory
  • Jack Whittingham
  • Ian Fleming
Based on Thunderball
past 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 past Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
company

Taliafilm
Distributed by
  • Warner Bros. (U.S.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.K.)[1]

Release dates
  • 7 October 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.S.)
  • 15 December 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.1000.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • Great britain
  • Us
Language English
Budget $36 one thousand thousand
Box office $160 million[ii]

Never Say Never Once more is a 1983 spy film directed by Irvin Kershner. The film 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 adapted in a 1965 movie of the same name. Never Say Never Again was not produced by Eon Productions, merely by Jack Schwartzman'southward Taliafilm. The moving-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 post-obit a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the role of Bond for the seventh and concluding fourth dimension, marking his return to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film'southward title is a reference to Connery's reported annunciation in 1971 that he would "never" play that function again. Equally Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nearly three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an crumbling Bond who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons past SPECTRE. Filming locations included French republic, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never Again was released by Warner Bros. on seven Oct 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the interim of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise equally more emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the mean solar day. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 one thousand thousand at the box function, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the aforementioned year.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training practise, his superior, M, orders Bond to a health clinic exterior London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a auto which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Chroma, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, just Bail manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her charge, a heroin-addicted Us Air Forcefulness 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 get in match the retinal pattern of the The states President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American armed services base in England. While doing and then, he replaces the dummy warheads of two AGM-86B cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE and then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Blush murders Petachi past causing his car to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE'due south tracks.

Strange 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 lead to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot's sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'south tiptop agent.

Bond is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo's yacht is now heading for Dainty, France. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a wellness and beauty heart where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an upshot at a casino that evening. At the charity event, Largo and Bail play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing player of each turn receives a series of electrical 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. Bail returns to his villa to find Nicole killed past Blush. After a vehicle chase on his Q-branch motorbike, Bail finds himself in an deadfall 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 I" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-outcome fountain pen gun to impale Chroma with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter endeavor to board Largo's motor yacht, the Flying 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 Due north Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bail later escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.Due south. Navy submarine. After the kickoff warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they runway Largo to a location known equally the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bail and Leiter infiltrate the hugger-mugger facility and a gun battle erupts betwixt 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 utilize a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun past Domino, taking revenge for her brother's death. Bond then defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahama islands with Domino, vowing never over again to be a secret amanuensis.

Bandage [edit]

  • Sean Connery equally James Bail, MI6 amanuensis 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number 1, SPECTRE's senior-most agent. He is based on the grapheme Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow every bit Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera as Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt downwardly and kill Bail. 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 flick.
  • Bernie Casey as 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 Fox as "M", Bond's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem equally Miss Moneypenny, M's secretarial assistant.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Role representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as 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 impale Bond at the clinic.
  • Anthony Sharp every bit Lord Ambrose, Strange Secretarial assistant who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee equally Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Helm 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.[3] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond motion picture, to be called Longitude 78 Due west,[4] which was subsequently abandoned considering of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "ever reluctant to let a good idea lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[vi] McClory and so took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[vii] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] Subsequently Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently fabricated a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and so not make any further version of the novel for a catamenia of ten years post-obit the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[8]

In the mid-1970s McClory over 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.[9] A lawsuit with Eon Productions ended in a ruling that McClory endemic 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 earlier taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Isle as staging areas for an invasion of New York Urban center through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[10] The script ran into difficulties after 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 once again the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bail of the Hugger-mugger Service,[8] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that withal surrounded the projection[x] [three] he decided against using Deighton'southward script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and later on McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the upshot in a 1980 presidential contend 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" between his campier projects such equally 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; still, Mankiewicz declined equally he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon'southward Albert R. Broccoli.[thirteen] Semple Jr. ultimately left the projection afterwards Irvin Kershner was hired every bit managing director and Schwartzman began cut out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the upkeep.[10] Connery then hired British television set writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[xi] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script being theirs. This was because of a brake by the Writers Society of America.[xiv] Clement and La Frenais connected rewriting during the product, oft altering information technology from day to day.[10]

The film underwent one final change in championship: later on Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[nine] Connery'due south wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Once again, referring to her married man's vow[15] and the producers best-selling her contribution by listing on the terminate credits "Title Never Say Never Again past Micheline Connery". A last attempt past Fleming'southward trustees to cake the moving picture was made in the High Courtroom in London in the jump of 1983, but this was thrown out past the court and Never Say Never Over again was permitted to keep.[xvi]

Cast and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had starting time planned the movie in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bail,[17] although the project came to nothing because of the legal bug involved. When the Warhead project 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 1000 and Richard Attenborough every bit managing director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Underground Service was being used and Connery was in the frame one time once more, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bail film, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[19] Connery idea himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I outset worked on the script with Len I had no thought of really being in the film."[twenty] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 1000000 ($8 million in 2020 dollars[21]), casting and script approving, and a per centum 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 beingness 52 at the fourth dimension of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the moving picture, such every bit the Shrubland'southward porter referring to Bail's machine ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new M having no utilise for the 00 department and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond's age fifty-fifty further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Sea.[10] Connery's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help arrive shape for the production.[10]

For the main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the atomic number 82 of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian motion picture Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he nonetheless retained his Eon-originated white cat in the pic.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected quondam model and Playboy comprehend girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from 1 of the early on scripts of Thunderball.[14] Carrera said she modeled her operation on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little bit of black widow and a little bit of praying mantis."[x] Carrera's performance every bit Fatima Chroma earned her a Gilded Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her function in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean'south wife, had met upward-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed later Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that equally the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a blackness Leiter might brand him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would after parody Bond in his function of Johnny English language in 2003.[29] Atkinson's character was added by Clement and La Frenais after the production had already started in gild to provide the motion-picture show with a comic relief.[10] Edward Fox was cast as M in order to portray the character as a immature technocrat in dissimilarity to the older portrayal past Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry building's budget cuts to government services.[x]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to straight the picture show, just subsequently coming together Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the film only declined due to his previous piece of 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 Back was then hired. A number of the coiffure from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were besides appointed, including first banana manager David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit of measurement managing 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 transport, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[14] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-Nov[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually celebrated 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] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree as well housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [ten] Virtually of the filming was completed in the leap of 1983, although at that place was some additional shooting during the summertime of 1983.[12]

Production on the pic was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant managing director David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a practiced businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer".[32] Later the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the corporeality the film would cost to brand.[35] There was tension on prepare 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 tape as saying that the whole product was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this film, broke Connery'southward 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 subsequently.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner'south and Schwartzman's first choice to compose the score after being impressed with his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the fourth dimension, wound up unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman afterwards 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 piece of work every bit a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the most 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 Award-winning vocal "The Windmills of Your Heed"[40] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] afterward Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, only 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 nowadays in Never Say Never Again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen full of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bond Theme" to utilise, although no effort was fabricated to supply some other melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[43] instead the pic opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bail on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on seven Oct 1983 in 1,550 theatres grossing an October record $x,958,157 over the iv-day Columbus 24-hour interval weekend[ii] which was reported to be "the all-time opening record of whatever James Bond picture" up to that bespeak[44] surpassing Octopussy 'south $viii.9 million from June that year. The moving-picture show had its UK premiere at the Warner West End movie house in Leicester Foursquare on 14 December 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 one thousand thousand,[45] which was a solid render on the budget of $36 1000000.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 million.[46] [47] It was the first James Bond moving-picture show to be officially released in the Soviet Union, 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 company has released the moving-picture show 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 Again was "one of the amend Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie as well thought that "Connery has lost none of his amuse and, if annihilation, is more appealing than ever as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times too concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is dorsum, looking hardly a solar day older or thicker, and nevertheless 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 equally Maximillian Largo "very near make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed upward Never Say Never Once again maxim "The activeness's expert, the photography excellent, the sets decent; just the existent clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played past a human with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bond, saying the film contains "the best Bond in the business",[56] only 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 Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm'due south chief issue with the film was that he had a "feeling that a abiding struggle was going on between a desire to brand a huge box-office success and the attempt to make character equally important equally stunts".[56] Malcolm summed upwardly that "the mix remains obstinately the aforementioned – upwardly to scratch but not surpassing information technology".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends up making no contribution of its ain and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French ended that "like an 60 minutes-drinking glass full of damp sand, the picture show moves with increasing slowness equally information technology approaches a dislocated climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll idea the early on part of the film was handled "with wit and mode",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple's script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the film and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer'south character was "played with silky, neurotic amuse",[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 "information technology is expert to meet Connery's grave stylishness in this role once again. It makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the production of genuine worldliness (and world weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore'due south mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, saying she thought that Never Say Never Once again "has noticeably more than humor and character than the Bond films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[lx] Maslin as well thought highly of Connery in the role, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to accommodate an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the bill."[lx] Writing in The Washington Postal service, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Again is "1 of the best James Bond adventure thrillers ever fabricated",[61] going on to say that "this picture is probable to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its nigh astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went farther, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond picture e'er made, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail service, Jay Scott, also praised the film, saying that Never Say Never Once again "may be the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a outset-charge per unit director."[62] According to Scott, the managing director, with high-quality support cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the film iii½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a bones "Bond plot", was different from other Bond films: "For one thing, in that location'southward more than of a homo element in the moving picture, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, past God, is Sean Connery every bit Sir James Bond. Good work, 007."[63] Cistron Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the film 3½ out of four stars, writing that the film was "ane of the best 007 adventures e'er made".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced motion picture, it 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 more "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just as they're absent-minded from MGM'due south megabox. But take my word for information technology; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged lxx% of the reviews equally positive, with an average rating of 5.sixty/10. The site'south disquisitional consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more than understated Bond brand Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is however more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Again 16th amidst all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the moving-picture show has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film three of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to phone call it quits the showtime time round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of ten, claiming that the film "is more miss than hit".[71] The review likewise thought that the film was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and non enough moments of Bail beingness Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Once again as the ninth best Bond film to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the film "is successful only as 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 again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a film which has "a hokey, jokey experience, [information technology] is mayhap the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major disappointment that, having lured dorsum the original 007, the picture makers couldn't offer him something better than this fatigued-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was neat to see Sean Connery return equally James Bond later on a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting cast was good, maxim that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... ane of the most complex of Bail's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary likewise wrote that the "picture show is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would exist one of the best Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't piece of 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 as James Bond, with McClory announcing the next planned film S.P.East.C.T.R.East in a February 1984 consequence of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would non reprise his role as Bond in some other film produced by Schwartzman three weeks earlier the deadline to purchase the rights to another film for $five meg, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another motion-picture show without a bargain from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory appear plans to make some other adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 Advertising, but the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory'southward rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and later appear 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-courtroom, forcing Sony to give up all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would go along with some other Bond movie,[79] and connected his case against MGM and Danjaq;[eighty] On 27 Baronial 2001 the courtroom rejected McClory's suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical movie adaptation of that novel the same yr with Daniel Craig equally James Bail. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the flick Spectre.

On 4 December 1997, MGM announced that the visitor had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Once again from Schwartzman's visitor Taliafilm.[82] [83] The company has since handled the release of both the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film.[84] [52]

Come across also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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