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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 movie house affiche past 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 past Jack Schwartzman
Starring
  • Sean Connery
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Max von Sydow
  • Barbara Carrera
  • Kim Basinger
  • Bernie Casey
  • Alec McCowen
  • Edward Play a trick on
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
company

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

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

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • Us
Language English language
Upkeep $36 million
Box office $160 one thousand thousand[2]

Never Say Never Once more is a 1983 spy motion-picture show directed by Irvin Kershner. The moving-picture show is based on the 1961 James Bail novel Thunderball past Ian Fleming, which in plough was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 picture of the aforementioned name. Never Say Never Again was not produced past Eon Productions, but by 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 battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the role of Bond for the seventh and terminal fourth dimension, marking his return to the character 12 years subsequently Diamonds Are Forever. The film'due south title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that role over again. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nearly three years younger than incumbent Bail Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Espana, the Commonwealth of the bahamas and Elstree Studios in the Uk.

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

Plot [edit]

Later MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training do, his superior, 1000, orders Bond to a health clinic outside 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 up is bandaged and after Chroma 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 clinic gym, but Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her charge, a heroin-addicted Us Air Force airplane pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run past Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his correct middle to brand it match the retinal pattern of the United states 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 cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE so steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Blush murders Petachi past causing his automobile to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE'due south tracks.

Foreign Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant 1000 to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bond follows a pb to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot's sis, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE's top agent.

Bail is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British Loftier Commission that Largo's yacht is now heading for Squeamish, France. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a wellness and beauty middle where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an event at a casino that evening. At the charity effect, Largo and Bond play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing histrion of each turn receives a serial of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the corporeality wagered. After losing a few games, Bond ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her blood 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, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is somewhen captured by Blush. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bail to declare in writing that she is his "Number Ane" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, and so uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter attempt to board Largo'due south motor yacht, the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to make Largo jealous by kissing Domino in front of a ii-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 betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond later on escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. After the first warhead is found 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 underground facility and a gun battle erupts betwixt Leiter's team and Largo'southward men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the 2d warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Just as Largo tries to employ a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother'due south death. Bail then defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a underground amanuensis.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire man of affairs and SPECTRE Number one, SPECTRE's senior-most 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 Chroma; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt down 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 film.
  • Bernie Casey as Felix Leiter, Bail's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen equally "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who problems specialised equipment to Bail.
  • Edward Fox as "Thou", Bond'south superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, M'southward secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson equally Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Office representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon every bit Lady in Commonwealth of the bahamas, whom Bail seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach as Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to impale Bail at the clinic.
  • Anthony Sharp as Lord Ambrose, Strange Secretary who orders 1000 to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Helm Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's blood brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Once more had its origins in the early 1960s, post-obit the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[3] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond film, to be called Longitude 78 West,[iv] which was later abandoned because of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to permit 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 Courtroom in London for breach of copyright[seven] 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 non make whatsoever further version of the novel for a menstruation of x years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[viii]

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working championship 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).[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 Urban center through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[10] The script ran into difficulties subsequently accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which bars McClory to a film based only on the novel Thunderball, and once once more the projection was deferred.[viii]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the projection nether the name James Bail of the Secret Service,[viii] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal bug that still surrounded the project[10] [iii] he decided confronting using Deighton'southward script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avoid some other lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on lath scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to make the screenplay "somewhere in the middle" betwixt his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such as Three Days of the Condor.[10] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the piece of work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; all the same, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[thirteen] Semple Jr. ultimately left the projection afterwards Irvin Kershner was hired as manager and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the budget.[10] Connery then hired British tv writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[11] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script being theirs. This was because of a brake by the Writers Order of America.[14] Cloudless and La Frenais connected rewriting during the product, often altering information technology from day to solar day.[10]

The picture show underwent 1 final change in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[9] Connery'southward married woman, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her married man's vow[xv] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the end credits "Title Never Say Never Over again past Micheline Connery". A terminal endeavour past Fleming's trustees to block the film was made in the High Courtroom in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[xvi]

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 nil because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the belatedly 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the merchandise press, including Orson Welles for the office of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Hole-and-corner Service was existence used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[xix] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, every bit he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually being in the film."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $three meg ($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 Bond'due south advancing years – playing on Connery beingness 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, such every bit the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's car ("They don't make them similar 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 fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Sea.[x] Connery's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help get in shape for the production.[10]

For the principal villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[24] Through the aforementioned route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he still retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the movie.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the proper noun 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 bit of black widow and a little scrap of praying mantis."[10] Carrera's performance equally Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for All-time Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her function in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met up-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 function. For the office of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, proverb that every bit 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 subsequently parody Bail in his role of Johnny English language in 2003.[29] Atkinson'south graphic symbol was added past Cloudless and La Frenais subsequently the production had already started in guild to provide the film with a comic relief.[x] Edward Fox was cast as M in order to portray the character every bit a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal past Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry'southward budget cuts to regime services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to straight the film, but afterwards meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the pic 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 Back was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including get-go assistant 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 equally Largo'south ship, the Flight 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 Bahamas 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 historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's transport, the Flying 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 as well housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took iii months to construct, while the Shrublands wellness spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [10] Most of the filming was completed in the jump of 1983, although at that place was some additional shooting during the summertime of 1983.[12]

Production on the flick 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 good businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a motion-picture show producer".[32] After the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later on admitted he had underestimated the corporeality the pic would price to make.[35] There was tension on ready betwixt Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism behind the scenes and was on record as saying that the whole product was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

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

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner'south and Schwartzman's first choice to compose the score later being impressed with his work on Star Expedition II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the time, wound upward unavailable co-ordinate 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 Over again was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his work every bit a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the most disappointing feature of the film".[24] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Once more", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the Academy Award-winning song "The Windmills of Your Listen"[twoscore] — and was performed by 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, but the song — an unsolicited submission — was passed over, given Legrand's contractual obligations with the music.[42]

Legal substitutions [edit]

The outlines of row upon row of "007 007 007 007 007" fill the screen. A view of countryside, heavily obstructed can be seen in through the gaps.

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced 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 Bail Theme" to use, although no attempt was made to supply another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a preparation mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on seven October 1983 in ane,550 theatres grossing an October record $10,958,157 over the four-day Columbus Day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening tape of whatsoever James Bail film" upward to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.9 million from June that year. The film had its Uk premiere at the Warner West End cinema in Leicester Square on 14 December 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 1000000,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 1000000.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.five million.[46] [47] It was the first James Bond movie 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 (see Legacy, below), the visitor has released the movie 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 Limited, said that Never Say Never Again was "one of the better Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie too thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more than appealing than ever equally the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times too concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a day older or thicker, and still outclassing every other exponent of the office, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex and violence on the style".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very nearly brand information technology all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying "The action's proficient, the photography fantabulous, the sets decent; just the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played by a human with the correct stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bond, saying the motion picture contains "the best Bail in the business organisation",[56] just nonetheless did not find Never Say Never Once more any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm'due south main issue with the film was that he had a "feeling that a abiding struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-office success and the effort to brand character as important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up 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 hr-glass full of damp sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness as it approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early office of the film was handled "with wit and style",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung past Lorenzo Semple's script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the moving-picture show and its bandage. 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 have slithered through Bond's career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "information technology is good to see Connery'due south grave stylishness in this role again. It makes Bail's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and world weariness) every bit opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, saying she thought that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more than humor and character than the Bond films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[lx] Maslin too thought highly of Connery in the function, observing that "in Never Say Never Once more, the formula is broadened to adjust an older, seasoned homo of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the bill."[60] Writing in The Washington Mail, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Over again is "one of the best James Bond adventure thrillers e'er made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is probable to remain a cherished, savory case of commercial filmmaking at its virtually astute and achieved."[61] Arnold went further, maxim that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond film ever made, 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 moving-picture show, saying that Never Say Never Again "may exist the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a showtime-rate director."[62] According to Scott, the director, with loftier-quality back up bandage, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the moving picture 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 1 thing, at that place'south more of a human element in the picture, and information technology comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... only here, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Good piece of work, 007."[63] Cistron Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the picture show 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the film was "one of the best 007 adventures ever made".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced moving-picture show, 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 exterior the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, simply equally they're absent from MGM's megabox. Just take my word for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged seventy% of the reviews as positive, with an boilerplate rating of 5.sixty/10. The site'southward critical 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 Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is even so 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 movie has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating mostly favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the flick three of a possible v stars, observing that "Connery was maybe wise to phone call it quits the commencement fourth dimension round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of 10, challenge that the pic "is more miss than hit".[71] The review besides thought that the picture was "marred with as well many clunky exposition scenes and not plenty moments of Bail being Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the 9th best Bail motion-picture show to that point, afterwards 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the flick "is successful only equally 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 experience, [information technology] is peradventure the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "information technology's a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the movie makers couldn't offer him something improve than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was great 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'due south Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... ane of the most complex of Bail's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "brand lasting impressions."[74] Peary as well wrote that the "moving-picture show is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... Information technology would exist one of the best Bail films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't piece of work because viewers ordinarily can't tell the hero and villain apart and they know doubles are being used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Again was intended to kickoff a series of Bond films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery every bit James Bond, with McClory announcing the adjacent planned film S.P.E.C.T.R.E in a February 1984 issue of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his office as Bail in some other motion picture produced past Schwartzman iii weeks earlier the deadline to buy the rights to another picture for $five one thousand thousand, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another film without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

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

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

See also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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