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1983 James Bond film directed by Irvin Kershner

Never Say Never Once 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 movie theatre poster by Renato Casaro
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Story by
  • Kevin McClory
  • Jack Whittingham
  • Ian Fleming
Based on Thunderball
by Ian Fleming
Produced by 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 by
  • Warner Bros. (U.S.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.One thousand.)[ane]

Release dates
  • 7 October 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.Southward.)
  • fifteen December 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.M.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • U.s.a.
Linguistic communication English
Upkeep $36 million
Box office $160 1000000[2]

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy moving-picture show directed by Irvin Kershner. The picture show is based on the 1961 James Bail 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 film of the same name. Never Say Never Once again was not produced past Eon Productions, but by Jack Schwartzman'south Taliafilm. The film was executive produced past Kevin McClory, one 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, marker his return to the grapheme 12 years after 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. Every bit Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although virtually three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bail who is brought dorsum 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 again was released by Warner Bros. on seven 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 moving-picture show was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box function, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released before the same twelvemonth.

Plot [edit]

Afterward MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, M, orders Bail 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 Chroma finishes her beating, Bail sees the patient using a machine which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Blush, who sends an assassinator, Lippe, to kill him in the dispensary gym, but Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Chroma and her charge, a heroin-addicted 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 it friction match the retinal design of the United states of america 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 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, roofing SPECTRE'due south tracks.

Strange Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking downward the missing weapons. Bond follows a pb to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot'due south sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'south summit agent.

Bail is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British Loftier Commission that Largo'southward yacht is now heading for Nice, French republic. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA analogue and friend, Felix Leiter. Bail goes to a health and beauty centre where he poses every bit 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 effect, Largo and Bond 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. Subsequently 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 find Nicole killed by Blush. After a vehicle chase on his Q-branch motorcycle, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is eventually captured by Chroma. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bond to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bail distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-co-operative-issue fountain pen gun to impale Blush with an explosive dart.

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

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.Due south. Navy submarine. Later on the first warhead is plant and defused in Washington, D.C., they rail Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bail and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun battle erupts betwixt Leiter's team and Largo'due south men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the 2nd warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Just every bit Largo tries to utilize a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother's expiry. Bond and so 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 undercover agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bail, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire man of affairs and SPECTRE Number 1, SPECTRE'due south senior-almost agent. He is based on the character Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the caput of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera as Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to chase down and kill Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger equally Domino Petachi, sister of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was inverse to Petrescu for the Italian release of the film.
  • Bernie Casey equally Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen every bit "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bail.
  • Edward Fox as "1000", Bail'southward superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Modest-Fawcett, Strange Office 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 kill Bond at the clinic.
  • Anthony Abrupt as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee every bit Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the dispensary.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's blood brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, post-obit 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 movie, to be chosen Longitude 78 West,[iv] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[five] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a good thought prevarication idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[6] McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for alienation of copyright[7] and the affair was settled in 1963.[4] Later on Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently fabricated a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then non make any further version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[eight]

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball accommodation 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 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 as staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers nether Wall Street. The script was purchased past 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 once more the project was deferred.[eight]

Towards the finish of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Cloak-and-dagger Service,[8] just when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the project[10] [3] he decided against using Deighton's script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in guild to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the event in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on lath scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to piece of work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to brand the screenplay "somewhere in the middle" betwixt his campier projects such every bit Batman and his more serious projects such as Iii Days of the Condor.[10] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; however, Mankiewicz declined every bit he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon'south Albert R. Broccoli.[thirteen] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project afterward Irvin Kershner was hired every bit director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to salve on the budget.[10] Connery then hired British television writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[11] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the concluding shooting script being theirs. This was considering of a restriction by the Writers Guild of America.[14] Clement and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, ofttimes altering it from day to 24-hour interval.[x]

The film underwent one final change in championship: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond once again.[9] Connery'south wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Once more, referring to her husband's vow[15] and the producers best-selling her contribution by listing on the end credits "Title Never Say Never Once more by Micheline Connery". A final endeavor by Fleming'due south trustees to block the film was made in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[sixteen]

Bandage and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[17] although the project came to zilch because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead projection was launched in the tardily 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade press, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play Thou and Richard Attenborough as director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bail of the Hush-hush Service was beingness used and Connery was in the frame one time again, potentially going head-to-head with the side by side Eon Bond motion-picture show, Moonraker.[18] Past 1980, with legal issues once more causing the projection to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, equally he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of really being in the pic."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bail; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 million ($8 million in 2021 dollars[21]), casting and script blessing, and a percent 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 existence 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 moving-picture show, such as the Shrubland'south porter referring to Bond's automobile ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new M having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond'due south age even further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish angling trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Bounding main.[x] Connery's casting was formally appear in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help go in shape for the production.[10]

For the main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Laurels-winning Hungarian movie Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow every bit 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 quondam model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[14] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little fleck of blackness widow and a piddling chip of praying mantis."[10] Carrera'southward performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Honour nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean'southward wife, had met up-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed later on Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the part of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, maxim 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 later on parody Bond in his part of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson's character was added by Clement and La Frenais afterward the production had already started in social club to provide the flick with a comic relief.[ten] Edward Fox was cast as M in order to portray the graphic symbol as a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry'due south upkeep cuts to government services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, but subsequently meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[x] Sometime Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty'south Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the film just declined due to his previous piece of 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 moving picture Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant director David Tomblin, manager of photography Douglas Slocombe, 2d unit 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 send, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for ii months[14] earlier moving to Nassau, the Bahama islands in mid-November[12] where filming took identify at Clifton Pier, which was as well ane of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was really historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's transport, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, so owned by Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and chosen the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed past Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[10] Chief photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree also 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] 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 product duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a good businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a picture show producer".[32] After the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further product out of his ain pocket and after admitted he had underestimated the corporeality the film would cost to brand.[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 as saying that the whole production was a "encarmine Mickey Mouse functioning!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts teacher for this flick, broke Connery'south wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Show 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'southward and Schwartzman'southward first choice to compose the score after being impressed with his piece of work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for about of the time, wound up unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman later on claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bond composer John Barry was invited, just declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Again was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score like to his work equally 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 too wrote the primary theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the University Laurels-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"[xl] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the vocal, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme song, written past Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, just the vocal — 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 butt sequence, where a screen total of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bail Theme" to apply, although no endeavor was made to supply another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed just not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a grooming mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on 7 October 1983 in ane,550 theatres grossing an October record $10,958,157 over the four-day Columbus Day weekend[ii] which was reported to be "the best opening record of any James Bond film" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 'due south $8.nine 1000000 from June that twelvemonth. The motion picture had its UK premiere at the Warner West Terminate cinema in Leicester Foursquare on 14 December 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the upkeep of $36 million.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 million.[46] [47] Information technology was the get-go James Bail film 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 Again on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[50] Subsequently Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (run into Legacy, beneath), the company has released the film on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Contemporary reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Over again was broadly welcomed and praised by the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Once more was "one of the ameliorate Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie also idea that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more appealing than ever as the fashionable resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, proverb that: "Connery ... is back, looking inappreciably a day older or thicker, and withal outclassing every other exponent of the function, 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 virtually make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Once again maxim "The action's proficient, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once more than played by a homo with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery'southward Bond, maxim the moving picture contains "the best Bond in the concern",[56] but nevertheless did non find Never Say Never Once again whatsoever more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very most to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm's main issue with the motion picture was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on betwixt a want to make a huge box-office success and the effort to brand character as important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed upward 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 film ends up 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 damp sand, the pic moves with increasing slowness equally information technology approaches a confused climax in the Farsi Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early role of the motion picture 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 film and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer's character was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Chroma, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who take slithered through Bond's career".[59] Schickel'south highest praise was saved for the render of Connery, observing "information technology is skillful to encounter Connery's grave stylishness in this part again. Information technology makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of 18-carat worldliness (and globe weariness) equally 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 character than the Bond films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[lx] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the role, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to accommodate an older, seasoned human of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the nib."[threescore] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, maxim that Never Say Never Again is "i of the best James Bond take a chance thrillers always fabricated",[61] going on to say that "this picture is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its nearly acute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, proverb that "Never Say Never Once again is the all-time acted Bond moving-picture show ever fabricated, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott, also praised the film, proverb that Never Say Never 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 back up 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 affair, at that place's more of a homo chemical element in the movie, and information technology comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, every bit Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add together, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, past God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bail. Good work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the film was "i of the best 007 adventures ever made".[64]

Colin Greenland reviewed Never Say Never Again for Imagine mag, and stated that "Never Say Never Again is a complacent male person sexist fantasy, where women can exist only femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Considering Never Say Never Again is non an Eon-produced flick, 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 Again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just as they're absent from MGM'south megabox. Simply take my word for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the motion-picture show remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged 70% of the reviews equally positive, with an average rating of 5.sixty/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bail make Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is nonetheless more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Over again 16th among all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the flick 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 5 stars, observing that "Connery was maybe wise to phone call it quits the first time circular".[lxx] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of 10, challenge that the film "is more than miss than hit".[71] The review also thought that the film was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bond beingness Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the ninth best Bond picture to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter idea the motion picture "is successful merely every bit a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even past his prime number, Connery proves that nobody does it better".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Again, 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 Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major disappointment that, having lured dorsum the original 007, the film makers couldn't offering 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 Bond afterward a dozen years".[74] He also idea the supporting cast was expert, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... i of the most circuitous of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary too wrote that the "pic is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be one of the all-time 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 beingness 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 Bail, with McClory announcing the next planned movie S.P.E.C.T.R.E in a February 1984 outcome of Screen International.[75] When Connery appear that he would not reprise his office as Bail in another film produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the deadline to buy the rights to another picture for $5 million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to brand another film without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to make some other 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 corporeality,[iv] and later on announced that it intended to make a series of Bond films, as the company too held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This motion prompted a circular of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to give up all claims on Bail; McClory all the same claimed he would go along with another Bond film,[79] and continued his example against MGM and Danjaq;[fourscore] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's adjust.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's conquering of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical picture show adaptation of that novel the aforementioned yr with Daniel Craig as James Bail. Ultimately, McClory'southward heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon serial in the film Spectre.

On 4 Dec 1997, MGM appear 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 film.[84] [52]

See too [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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