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1983 James Bond film directed by 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 theatre poster past Renato Casaro
Directed past Irvin Kershner
Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Story by
  • Kevin McClory
  • Jack Whittingham
  • Ian Fleming
Based on Thunderball
by Ian Fleming
Produced by Jack Schwartzman
Starring
  • Sean Connery
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Max von Sydow
  • Barbara Carrera
  • Kim Basinger
  • Bernie Casey
  • Alec McCowen
  • Edward Trick
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music past Michel Legrand

Production
company

Taliafilm
Distributed past
  • Warner Bros. (U.Due south.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.One thousand.)[1]

Release dates
  • seven October 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.S.)
  • 15 December 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.K.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • Uk
  • United States
Linguistic communication English
Budget $36 million
Box office $160 million[ii]

Never Say Never Over again is a 1983 spy motion-picture show directed by Irvin Kershner. The flick is based on the 1961 James Bail novel Thunderball past Ian Fleming, which in plow 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 same name. Never Say Never Again was not produced by 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 final time, marking his render to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film'southward title is a reference to Connery's reported announcement in 1971 that he would "never" play that part again. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although well-nigh iii years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bail who is brought dorsum into activity to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons past SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the U.k..

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

Plot [edit]

After MI6 amanuensis James Bail, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, M, orders Bail to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic chirapsia to a patient in a nearby room. The man'southward face is bandaged and subsequently Blush finishes her chirapsia, Bond sees the patient using a auto which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Chroma, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to impale him in the clinic gym, just Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her charge, 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 right eye to make it 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 of operations in England. While doing 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 by causing his car to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE'south tracks.

Strange Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bail is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bond follows a lead to the Bahama islands where he meets Domino Petachi, the airplane pilot's sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'southward meridian agent.

Bail is informed by Nigel Modest-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo'southward yacht is at present heading for Nice, France. There, Bail joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a wellness and beauty centre where he poses every bit an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an effect at a casino that evening. At the charity event, Largo and Bond play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing thespian of each turn receives a series of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. After 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 observe Nicole killed past Blush. 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 Bond to declare in writing that she is his "Number 1" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, and then uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive sprint.

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

Domino and Bail reunite with Leiter on a U.Southward. 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, beneath a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the hush-hush facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter'due south 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. Simply as Largo tries to use a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother'southward death. Bond then defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahama islands with Domino, vowing never once again to be a underground agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery every bit James Bail, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer every bit Maximillian Largo, a billionaire man of affairs and SPECTRE Number 1, SPECTRE's senior-near agent. He is based on the graphic symbol Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera as Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt down and kill Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi, sister of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was inverse to Petrescu for the Italian release of the film.
  • Bernie Casey as Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen equally "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox as "Thousand", Bond'southward superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, M'southward secretarial assistant.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-scale-Fawcett, Strange Office representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon equally Lady in Bahamas, whom Bail seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach every bit Lippe, a SPECTRE assassinator who tries to impale Bond at the clinic.
  • Anthony Sharp as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretarial assistant who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 department.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the dispensary.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[iii] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bail film, to be called Longitude 78 Westward,[4] which was afterwards abased considering of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "ever reluctant to allow a adept idea lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[six] McClory and then took Fleming to the High Court in London for alienation of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] Later on Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently fabricated a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and and then not make any further version of the novel for a menses of ten years post-obit the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[viii]

In the mid-1970s McClory over again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[nine] 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).[x] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Isle every bit staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[x] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone across copyright restrictions, which bars McClory to a film based only on the novel Thunderball, and again the projection was deferred.[viii]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Secret Service,[8] only when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the project[x] [3] he decided confronting using Deighton's script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in lodge to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and afterwards McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the event in a 1980 presidential argue 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 center" 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 work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to piece of work on the script; nonetheless, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was nether a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project afterwards Irvin Kershner was hired as managing director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to salve on the upkeep.[x] Connery then hired British television writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[11] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script being theirs. This was considering of a brake past the Writers Guild of America.[14] Clement and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering it from day to mean solar day.[10]

The pic underwent one final change in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[nine] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the championship Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband'southward vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past listing on the end credits "Championship Never Say Never Again past Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming's trustees to cake the film was made in the High Court in London in the bound of 1983, simply this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[sixteen]

Cast and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had kickoff planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the office of Bond,[17] although the project came to nothing because of the legal bug involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the tardily 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade press, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as manager.[9]

In 1978, the working championship James Bail of the Secret Service was existence used and Connery was in the frame once over again, potentially going head-to-caput with the next Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal issues over again causing the projection to founder,[xix] Connery idea himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I kickoff worked on the script with Len I had no thought of really being in the film."[twenty] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 1000000 ($8 million in 2021 dollars[21]), casting and script blessing, and a percentage of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the office, Semple contradistinct the script to include several references to Bond's advancing years – playing on Connery existence 52 at the fourth dimension of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such equally the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's auto ("They don't brand them like that anymore"), the new M having no use for the 00 department and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond'due south age even further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish angling trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the N Sea.[x] Connery'south casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to assistance get in shape for the production.[10]

For the main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian flick Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he still retained his Eon-originated white cat in the moving picture.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from 1 of the early on scripts of Thunderball.[fourteen] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little scrap of black widow and a petty bit of praying mantis."[x] Carrera'due south performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Gilded Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Extra,[27] which she lost to Cher for her part 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 part. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a blackness Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others bandage included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his office of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson'southward character was added by Clement and La Frenais after the production had already started in social club to provide the movie with a comic relief.[10] Edward Trick was cast as Thousand in guild to portray the character as a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry's upkeep cuts to government services.[ten]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to straight the film, merely after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty'southward Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to directly 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 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were too appointed, including first assistant director David Tomblin, managing director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit director Mickey Moore and product 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 ship, 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 Bahamas in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also ane of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was really historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's ship, 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] Primary photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took iii 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]

Product on the film was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with banana manager David Tomblin.[32] Managing 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] Afterward the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further product out of his ain pocket and afterward admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would cost to brand.[35] There was tension on fix 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 maxim that the whole product was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this moving picture, bankrupt Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was broken until over a decade afterwards.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman'south first choice to compose the score afterwards existence impressed with his piece of work on Star Expedition Two: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the fourth dimension, wound up unavailable co-ordinate to Kershner, though Schwartzman later 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 every bit a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the most disappointing characteristic of the film".[24] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the Academy Accolade-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"[40] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] later on 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 Over 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 use, although no try 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 superlative 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-day Columbus Twenty-four hour period weekend[2] which was reported to be "the all-time opening record of any James Bail motion picture" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.9 million from June that yr. The movie 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 million,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 million.[45] The motion-picture show ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.five one thousand thousand.[46] [47] Information technology was the beginning James Bond film to be officially released in the Soviet Union, premiering in the summertime 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 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 Again was broadly welcomed and praised past the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Once more was "one of the improve 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 appealing than e'er as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, proverb that: "Connery ... is dorsum, looking hardly a 24-hour interval older or thicker, and all the same outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sexual activity and violence on the mode".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very near make information technology all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Again maxim "The action's good, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bail is once more played by a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bail, maxim the moving picture contains "the best Bond in the concern",[56] but withal did non find Never Say Never Once again any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very virtually to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm'south main outcome with the moving-picture show was that he had a "feeling that a abiding struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-role success and the effort to make character equally important equally stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – upwards to scratch just not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted motion picture ends up making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an hour-glass total of damp sand, the moving-picture show moves with increasing slowness as information technology approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early function of the motion-picture show 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 and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer'south character was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[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 return of Connery, observing "it is good to see Connery'south grave stylishness in this role again. Information technology makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and earth weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, saying she idea that Never Say Never Over again "has noticeably more humour and character than the Bond films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[lx] Maslin likewise thought highly of Connery in the office, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to accommodate an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the pecker."[60] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Over again is "one of the best James Bail adventure thrillers ever made",[61] going on to say that "this moving-picture show is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its near acute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, maxim that "Never Say Never Once again is the all-time acted Bond picture always made, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the surface area of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The World and Postal service, Jay Scott, as well praised the film, proverb that Never Say Never Again "may be the simply instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by 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 moving picture iii½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bail plot", was different from other Bond films: "For one thing, there'southward more of a human element in the pic, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add together, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... simply here, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Good work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the film 3½ out of iv stars, writing that the motion picture was "1 of the best 007 adventures ever made".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced flick, it has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Once again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, but every bit they're absent-minded from MGM's megabox. Only take my give-and-take for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged 70% of the reviews as positive, with an average rating of 5.60/ten. The site's critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the render of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bail make Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is still 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 film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on fifteen critics, indicating by and large favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film three of a possible v stars, observing that "Connery was perchance wise to telephone call it quits the get-go fourth dimension circular".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of 10, claiming that the film "is more miss than hit".[71] The review as well thought that the flick was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bond beingness Bail".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Amusement Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the ninth all-time Bond motion picture to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter idea the picture "is successful simply as a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even past his prime, Connery proves that nobody does it better".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a film which has "a hokey, jokey feel, [it] is possibly the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it'due south a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the motion-picture show makers couldn't offer him something better than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was not bad to see Sean Connery return as James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He too thought the supporting cast was skillful, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the nigh complex of Bond'due south 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 best Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When volition filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't work because viewers usually can't tell the hero and villain autonomously and they know doubles are being used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Again was intended to first a series of Bond films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery equally James Bond, with McClory announcing the adjacent planned film Due south.P.E.C.T.R.Due east in a February 1984 issue of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his role as Bond in another film produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the deadline to purchase the rights to another motion picture for $5 million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another motion picture without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to brand another accommodation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 AD, but the film was somewhen scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory's rights for an undisclosed amount,[four] and subsequently announced that it intended to make a serial of Bond films, as 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 continue with another Bond movie,[79] and connected his case against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the courtroom rejected McClory's suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'due south conquering of the rights to Casino Royale finally immune Eon Productions to make a serious, not-satirical film adaptation of that novel the aforementioned yr with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Ultimately, McClory'south heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon serial in the motion picture Spectre.

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

See also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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