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1983 James Bail film directed past Irvin Kershner

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

British cinema affiche by Renato Casaro
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Screenplay past 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 past
  • Warner Bros. (U.S.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.K.)[one]

Release dates
  • 7 October 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.South.)
  • fifteen Dec 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.K.)

Running fourth dimension

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

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

Sean Connery played the role of Bond for the 7th and concluding time, marking his render to the graphic symbol 12 years afterward Diamonds Are Forever. The moving picture's title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that role again. As Connery was 52 at the fourth dimension of filming, although nearly three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of 2 nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahama islands and Elstree Studios in the Great britain.

Never Say Never Over again was released by Warner Bros. on 7 October 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the acting of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise as more emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the day. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the aforementioned year.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training practise, his superior, M, orders Bail to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While at that place, Bail witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic chirapsia to a patient in a nearby room. The homo's 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 kill him in the clinic gym, merely 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 by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his right eye to make it friction match the retinal design of the US President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American military base in England. While doing so, he replaces the dummy warheads of two AGM-86B prowl missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE and then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Blush murders Petachi by causing his machine to crash and explode, roofing SPECTRE's tracks.

Foreign Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant K to reactivate the double-0 department, and Bond is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bond follows a pb to the Bahama islands where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot's sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE's height agent.

Bond is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo's yacht is at present heading for Dainty, French republic. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bail goes to a health and beauty eye where he poses every bit 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 clemency event, Largo and Bond play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing histrion of each turn receives a series of electrical shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. Later losing a few games, Bond 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 Chroma. After a vehicle chase on his Q-branch motorbike, Bail finds himself in an ambush and is somewhen 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-branch-outcome fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

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

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. Afterwards the commencement warhead is establish and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known equally the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian declension. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter's team and Largo's men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Only as Largo tries to utilize a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother'south expiry. Bond so defuses the nuclear flop underwater, saving the world. Bail retires from duty and returns to the Commonwealth of the bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a hugger-mugger agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bail, MI6 amanuensis 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer every bit Maximillian Largo, a billionaire man of affairs and SPECTRE Number i, SPECTRE'southward senior-most agent. He is based on the character Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow equally Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera equally Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to chase downward and kill Bail. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger every bit Domino Petachi, sister of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the pic.
  • Bernie Casey equally 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 Fob as "One thousand", Bail's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Minor-Fawcett, Strange Office representative in the Bahama islands.
  • Valerie Leon equally Lady in Bahamas, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek equally Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach equally Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to kill Bond at the dispensary.
  • Anthony Sharp as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders One thousand to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi'south brother.

Product [edit]

Never Say Never Over again had its origins in the early on 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 Bail film, to be chosen Longitude 78 West,[4] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a good thought lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[vi] McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, information technology subsequently made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not make any further version of the novel for a period of ten years post-obit the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[eight]

In the mid-1970s McClory once 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 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 before taking over Freedom Isle and Ellis Island 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.[ten] 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 just on the novel Thunderball, and once again the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the stop of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Secret Service,[8] just when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal bug 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 club to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential contend with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on lath scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to piece of work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to make the screenplay "somewhere in the heart" between his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such equally Three Days of the Condor.[ten] 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; notwithstanding, Mankiewicz declined equally he felt he was nether 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 cut out the "big numbers" from his script to salve on the budget.[ten] Connery then hired British tv set writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[eleven] 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 brake by the Writers Guild of America.[fourteen] Cloudless and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering information technology from 24-hour interval to twenty-four hours.[x]

The film underwent i last change in title: afterwards Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[9] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband's vow[fifteen] and the producers best-selling her contribution by listing on the terminate credits "Title Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming'due south trustees to block the film was made in the High Courtroom in London in the jump of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to continue.[16]

Cast and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had kickoff planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[17] although the project came to nothing considering of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead projection 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 Yard and Richard Attenborough as managing director.[9]

In 1978, the working championship James Bond of the Undercover Service was beingness used and Connery was in the frame once once again, potentially going head-to-caput with the next Eon Bond pic, Moonraker.[eighteen] Past 1980, with legal bug over again causing the project to founder,[xix] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no idea of actually being in the motion-picture show."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 one thousand thousand ($8 million in 2021 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percentage of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bail'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 historic period and disillusionment in the moving-picture show, such equally the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's car ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new M having no utilize for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond'southward 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'due south casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help make it shape for the production.[10]

For the main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the pb of the 1981 Academy Honour-winning Hungarian motion picture Mephisto.[24] Through the aforementioned route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he yet retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the film.[26] For the femme fatale, manager Irvin Kershner selected old model and Playboy embrace girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[14] Carrera said she modeled her functioning on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a petty bit of blackness widow and a picayune bit of praying mantis."[10] Carrera'south performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean'southward married woman, had met up-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 as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might brand him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bail in his role of Johnny English language in 2003.[29] Atkinson's character was added by Clement and La Frenais afterward the production had already started in order to provide the film with a comic relief.[10] Edward Play tricks was cast as One thousand in guild to portray the character as a immature technocrat in dissimilarity to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry's budget cuts to government services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, but after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[ten] Former Eon Productions' editor and managing director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to straight the film simply declined due to his previous work with Eon.[30] Irvin Kershner, who had previously worked with Connery on A Fine Madness (1966), and had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was and so hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 picture show Raiders of the Lost Ark were too appointed, including first banana director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second 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'southward send, 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 Bahama islands in mid-November[12] where filming took identify at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was really celebrated Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's transport, the Flight Saucer, was portrayed past the yacht Kingdom 5KR, then owned past Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and chosen 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 summertime 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, saying that, while he was a skillful man of affairs, "he didn't have the experience of a motion picture producer".[32] Later the production ran out of coin, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the corporeality the moving picture would toll to make.[35] There was tension on set betwixt Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism backside the scenes and was on record as proverb that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse functioning!"[36]

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

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner'due south and Schwartzman's offset option to compose the score afterward being impressed with his work on Star Trek Two: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the time, wound upwardly unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman subsequently 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 past Michel Legrand, who composed a score like to his piece of work as a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the most disappointing feature of the flick".[24] Legrand as well wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Over again", which featured lyrics past Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the Academy Award-winning vocal "The Windmills of Your Listen"[40] — and was performed past Lani Hall[24] after 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, just the song — an unsolicited submission — was passed over, given Legrand'southward 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 non present in Never Say Never Again for legal reasons. These included the gun butt sequence, where a screen full of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bond Theme" to utilize, although no try was fabricated to supply another melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[43] instead the picture 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 1,550 theatres grossing an October record $ten,958,157 over the iv-day Columbus Mean solar day weekend[two] which was reported to be "the best opening record of whatsoever James Bond film" upwards to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.nine million from June that year. The film had its UK premiere at the Warner West Terminate picture palace in Leicester Square on 14 December 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 million.[45] The flick ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 million.[46] [47] It was the beginning James Bond motion-picture show to be officially released in the Soviet Matrimony, premiering in the summertime 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.[50] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (encounter Legacy, below), the company has released the flick 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 Over again was "1 of the better Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie besides thought that "Connery has lost none of his amuse and, if anything, is more appealing than ever every bit the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times likewise concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is dorsum, looking hardly a 24-hour interval older or thicker, and still outclassing every other exponent of the function, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex activity and violence on the way".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer equally Maximillian Largo "very nearly make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed upwards Never Say Never Once again saying "The action's adept, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bail is in one case more than played by a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to exist a fan of Connery'southward Bond, saying the film contains "the best Bond in the business organization",[56] but nevertheless did not notice Never Say Never Again any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russian federation with Dear".[56] Malcolm'southward main issue with the film 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 make character equally important equally stunts".[56] Malcolm summed upward that "the mix remains obstinately the aforementioned – up to scratch but not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted motion picture ends upward making no contribution of its own and inviting dissentious comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French ended that "like an 60 minutes-glass full of clammy sand, the movie moves with increasing slowness every bit it approaches a dislocated climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll idea the early part of the movie 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 movie and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer's grapheme was "played with silky, neurotic amuse",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bond's career".[59] Schickel'due south highest praise was saved for the render of Connery, observing "it is good to run across Connery'due south grave stylishness in this office again. It makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and earth weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore'due south mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the pic, saying she idea that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more humor and character than the Bond films commonly provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also idea highly of Connery in the office, 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 neb."[60] Writing in The Washington Postal service, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, maxim that Never Say Never Once again is "one of the best James Bail adventure thrillers ever made",[61] going on to say that "this film is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its well-nigh acute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went farther, proverb that "Never Say Never Once more is the all-time acted Bail motion picture ever fabricated, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the surface area of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The World and Post, Jay Scott, also praised the picture show, proverb that Never Say Never Once again "may be the but instalment of the long-running serial that has been helmed past a first-rate director."[62] According to Scott, the director, with high-quality support cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the motion-picture show 3½ out of iv stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Once more, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was different from other Bond films: "For ane thing, there's more of a human element in the motion-picture show, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add together, "at that place was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, past God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Proficient work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune besides gave the film three½ out of 4 stars, writing that the film was "1 of the best 007 adventures ever fabricated".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Considering Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced film, information technology has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again "exist exterior the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, but as they're absent from MGM's megabox. Just take my give-and-take for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the moving-picture show remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged lxx% of the reviews as positive, with an average rating of 5.60/10. The site's disquisitional consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more than understated Bond make Never Say Never Once again a watchable retread."[67] The score is still more than positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Again 16th among all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on xv critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film iii of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was peradventure wise to call information technology quits the first time round".[lxx] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of 10, claiming that the picture show "is more miss than hitting".[71] The review also thought that the pic was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not plenty moments of Bond beingness Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Over again equally the ninth best Bond motion picture to that bespeak, subsequently 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the flick "is successful only as a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even by his prime, Connery proves that nobody does information technology 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, [it] is perhaps the worst-written Bond 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 amend than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was great to run across Sean Connery return as James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting cast was good, proverb that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the well-nigh complex of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary also wrote that the "film 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 piece of work because viewers usually tin't tell the hero and villain autonomously and they know doubles are being used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Once more was intended to start a series of Bail films produced past Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bond, with McClory announcing the adjacent planned film Southward.P.E.C.T.R.Eastward in a February 1984 event of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would non reprise his role as Bond in another motion-picture show produced by Schwartzman 3 weeks earlier the deadline to purchase the rights to another picture for $5 one thousand thousand, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another picture without a bargain from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to make another adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 Advertisement, just the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures caused McClory's rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and subsequently announced that it intended to make a serial of Bond films, every bit the company as well 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 surrender all claims on Bond; McClory nonetheless claimed he would proceed with some other Bond film,[79] and connected his case confronting MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the courtroom rejected McClory's conform.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'southward conquering of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical picture show accommodation of that novel the same year with Daniel Craig as James Bail. Ultimately, McClory'due south heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the film Spectre.

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

Come across also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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