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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 cinema 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 by Jack Schwartzman
Starring
  • Sean Connery
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Max von Sydow
  • Barbara Carrera
  • Kim Basinger
  • Bernie Casey
  • Alec McCowen
  • Edward Trick
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
company

Taliafilm
Distributed past
  • Warner Bros. (U.Due south.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.K.)[i]

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

Running time

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

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film directed past Irvin Kershner. The flick is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 film of the aforementioned proper name. Never Say Never Over again was not produced past Eon Productions, just past Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The film was executive produced by Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory retained the filming rights of the novel following a long legal boxing dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the role of Bond for the 7th and last fourth dimension, marking his return to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film's title is a reference to Connery's reported announcement in 1971 that he would "never" play that function again. Equally Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nearly 3 years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bail who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons past SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never Again was released past Warner Bros. on vii October 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the acting of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise every bit more than emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the 24-hour interval. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 meg at the box role, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the same twelvemonth.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training do, his superior, M, orders Bail to a health clinic exterior London to get dorsum 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'southward face is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a machine which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Blush, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to impale him in the dispensary gym, but Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her accuse, a heroin-addicted United States Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run past Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an functioning on his correct eye to make information technology match the retinal design of the U.s. President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American armed forces base in England. While doing and so, 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. Blush murders Petachi past causing his car to crash and explode, roofing SPECTRE's tracks.

Foreign Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant K 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's height agent.

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

Bond and Leiter try to lath Largo'south motor yacht, the Flying 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-manner mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo'southward base of operations in North Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bail 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 plant 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 coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the hole-and-corner facility and a gun boxing erupts between Leiter'southward team and Largo'south men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Just every bit Largo tries to use a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun past Domino, taking revenge for her brother'due south death. Bond so defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bail retires from duty and returns to the Bahama islands with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret amanuensis.

Bandage [edit]

  • Sean Connery equally James Bond, 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 character 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 downward and kill Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger every bit Domino Petachi, sis of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the motion-picture show.
  • Bernie Casey every bit Felix Leiter, Bail's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen equally "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who bug specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox as "Grand", Bail's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, Chiliad's secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson equally Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Office representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahama islands, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach as Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to kill Bond at the dispensary.
  • Anthony Sharp as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee equally Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early on 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[three] Fleming had worked with contained producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond moving picture, to exist called Longitude 78 West,[4] which was afterward abased because of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a skillful idea lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did non credit either McClory or Whittingham;[half-dozen] McClory and then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently made a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and and so not make any farther version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[8]

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball accommodation to production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought author Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[nine] 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).[10] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Freedom Isle and Ellis Isle as staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[10] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a flick based but on the novel Thunderball, and once once more the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the stop of the 1970s developments were reported on the project nether the name James Bond of the Secret Service,[eight] only 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 confronting using Deighton'due south script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[eleven] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to brand the screenplay "somewhere in the eye" betwixt his campier projects such equally Batman and his more serious projects such equally Three 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 piece of work on the script; however, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project after Irvin Kershner was hired as director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to relieve on the upkeep.[x] Connery then hired British television 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 restriction by the Writers Guild of America.[14] Clement and La Frenais connected rewriting during the production, often altering it from twenty-four hour period to day.[ten]

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 again.[9] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the championship Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband's vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past listing on the end credits "Championship Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A concluding attempt by Fleming's trustees to block the film was made in the Loftier Courtroom in London in the jump of 1983, merely this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Once more was permitted to continue.[16]

Cast and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had beginning planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[17] although the project came to cypher because of the legal bug involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade press, including Orson Welles for the office of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play Grand and Richard Attenborough every bit director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bail of the Hole-and-corner Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going head-to-caput with the next Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[eighteen] By 1980, with legal problems again causing the project to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sun Express: "When I starting time worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually being in the film."[twenty] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 meg ($8 one thousand thousand in 2020 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a pct 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 in that location are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland'due south porter referring to Bond's car ("They don't brand them like that anymore"), the new M having no apply for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bail's 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 Sea.[10] Connery'south casting was formally appear in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to assistance go in shape for the production.[10]

For the chief villain in the pic, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the atomic number 82 of the 1981 University Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[24] Through the aforementioned road came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he nonetheless retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the pic.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy encompass girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the proper name coming from ane of the early scripts of Thunderball.[fourteen] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little chip of black widow and a niggling bit of praying mantis."[10] Carrera's performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Gilded Globe Accolade nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her part 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 after Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that equally the Leiter part was never remembered past audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others bandage included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his function of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson'south graphic symbol was added past Clement and La Frenais after the production had already started in order to provide the film with a comic relief.[10] Edward Play a joke on was bandage as G in order to portray the graphic symbol as a young technocrat in dissimilarity to the older portrayal past Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry building's budget cuts to authorities services.[x]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, simply later on 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 straight the film but 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 crew from the 1981 picture Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant managing director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit 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 Flight Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Over again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for 2 months[14] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo'southward Palmyran fortress was really historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's send, the Flight Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, then owned past 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 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] [10] Most of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Production on the film was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, proverb that, while he was a skilful man of affairs, "he didn't have the experience of a picture show producer".[32] After the product ran out of coin, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would cost to make.[35] There was tension on set between Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism behind the scenes and was on record equally saying that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse performance!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this film, broke Connery'due south wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Evidence 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'due south and Schwartzman's first pick to etch the score after being impressed with his piece of work on Star Expedition Two: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for nigh of the time, wound upward unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman afterward 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 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 motion picture".[24] Legrand also wrote the principal theme "Never Say Never Over again", which featured lyrics past Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had as well worked with Legrand on the University Honor-winning vocal "The Windmills of Your Listen"[xl] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] afterwards Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme vocal, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but the vocal — an unsolicited submission — was passed over, given Legrand'south 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 Once again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen total of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly in that location was no "James Bond Theme" to apply, although no endeavour was fabricated to supply another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but non used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on 7 October 1983 in one,550 theatres grossing an Oct record $10,958,157 over the iv-solar day Columbus Mean solar day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening record of whatsoever James Bail film" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 'south $8.9 million from June that year. The film had its UK premiere at the Warner West Terminate cinema in Leicester Square on 14 Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Over again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 million.[45] The moving picture ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 million.[46] [47] It was the start 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] Later Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (run into Legacy, beneath), the company has released the motion picture on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Contemporary reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Once more 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 well-baked and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie also thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more highly-seasoned than ever as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times likewise full-bodied on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a day older or thicker, and however 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 as Maximillian Largo "very virtually brand it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Fourth dimension Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying "The activity's proficient, the photography fantabulous, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is again played past a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to exist a fan of Connery'due south Bond, saying the flick contains "the best Bond in the business",[56] but nonetheless 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'south main consequence with the moving picture was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-office success and the endeavor to make graphic symbol as important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – upwardly to scratch but not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends upwardly making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an hour-glass total of damp sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness as information technology approaches a confused climax in the Western farsi Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll idea the early on part of the flick was handled "with wit and style",[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 moving-picture show and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer's character was "played with silky, neurotic amuse",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Chroma, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bond'due south career".[59] Schickel'south highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is good to see Connery'southward grave stylishness in this office over again. It makes Bail's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and world weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore'south mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the moving picture, saying she thought that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more humor and grapheme than the Bail films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the office, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to accommodate an older, seasoned human being of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the bill."[60] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Again is "one of the best James Bond adventure thrillers ever fabricated",[61] going on to say that "this motion-picture show is probable to remain a cherished, savory instance of commercial filmmaking at its most acute and achieved."[61] Arnold went further, proverb that "Never Say Never Over again is the best acted Bond moving-picture show ever fabricated, because it conspicuously 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, saying that Never Say Never Again "may be the but instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed past a first-charge per unit managing 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 Once more, while consisting of a bones "Bond plot", was dissimilar from other Bail films: "For 1 thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... merely here, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bail. Adept work, 007."[63] Factor Siskel of The Chicago Tribune likewise gave the film three½ out of 4 stars, writing that the motion picture was "one of the best 007 adventures always fabricated".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced film, it has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967'southward Casino Royale and Never Say Never Over again "be outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just every bit they're absent from MGM'south megabox. But take my word for information technology; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the moving picture remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged lxx% of the reviews equally positive, with an boilerplate rating of 5.60/10. 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 Bond make Never Say Never Over again a watchable retread."[67] The score is nonetheless more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Again 16th amongst all Bail films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the pic has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on fifteen critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the motion picture three of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to telephone call it quits the showtime time circular".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Once again a score of 5 out of 10, challenge that the film "is more miss than striking".[71] The review also thought that the movie was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bond existence Bail".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Once more as the ninth all-time Bond moving-picture show to that signal, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the moving-picture show "is successful only as a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "fifty-fifty past his prime, Connery proves that nobody does information technology better".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Over again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a film which has "a hokey, jokey feel, [it] is possibly the worst-written Bail script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the film makers couldn't offer him something better than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was bully to see Sean Connery return as James Bail after a dozen years".[74] He as well thought the supporting cast was good, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the almost circuitous 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 be one of the best Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't work because viewers unremarkably tin'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 start a series of Bond films produced past Schwartzman and starring Connery equally James Bail, with McClory announcing the next planned flick South.P.Due east.C.T.R.Due east in a February 1984 issue of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would non reprise his role as Bond in some other film produced past Schwartzman iii weeks before the borderline to buy the rights to some other film for $five million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another picture show without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to brand some other adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 Advert, just the moving picture was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory'southward rights for an undisclosed amount,[four] and subsequently appear that it intended to make a series of Bond films, equally the company also held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This motility prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to requite upwards all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would keep with another Bail film,[79] and connected his case against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory'southward suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's conquering of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, not-satirical film adaptation of that novel the same year with Daniel Craig as James Bail. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the visitor to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the motion-picture show Spectre.

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

See too [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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