SMR 397: No Time To Die

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   SANDLERAGONY

   07/10/2022 at 4:58 PM

   This is properly the middle-tier Bond film. Explores the best of the Daniel Craig-Bond films (Daniel Craig’s exemplary work humanizing Bond, set-pieces, stellar cast, visually stunning, direction) & the worst of them (weird MGS-style plot, milquetoast main bad guy & length). Then again, after the dumpster fire dogshit Spectre was, I’ll take this than that damn movie.

   Film did have a lot to tie up, so I commend the effort from the cast & crew to tie this up. While I didn’t like Rami Malek, I really, really like how they tightened the characters of Madeline Swan & Blofield. What was lacking in the previous film with them, surely was fixed here. Really liked the first two acts but it does fall apart in the third. I said in my Letterboxd review back in October, if they’d fix a few things here & there, it could rival Casino Royale but is just behind the underrated (and underappreciated) Quantum of Solace.

   So, if I had to rank these for me: Casino Royale, Skyfall, Solace, No Time To Die & Spectre in the damn trash. Happy they wrapped it up & Daniel Craig can do something else like Knives Out 2. He wrapped out a helluva legacy w/Bond. Props to a G.

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   RoninRaphael

   07/08/2022 at 9:23 AM

   I grew up on 007 and have watched them all. Pierce Brosnan was the first who I began to appreciate as an adult, but Daniel Craig won me over as the best the moment I watched a bootleg copy of Casino Royale back in Lagos. So although I didn’t go to the theater for No Time To Die, I rented it & felt it was a deserved send off to my favorite 007. The villain was meh, I only look at this film as a send-off for my faves. I await the reboot where colonialism finally pays off and a nonwhite Brit man is picked as 007. Hi I am James Adetunji Bond or HI I’m James Lee Bond …

   Give me an Indian British Bond! Haha

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