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1983 James Bond flick 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 cinema affiche by Renato Casaro
Directed past Irvin Kershner
Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Story past
  • 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 Play tricks
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
company

Taliafilm
Distributed by
  • Warner Bros. (U.S.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.K.)[1]

Release dates
  • seven Oct 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.S.)
  • 15 Dec 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.G.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Language English
Upkeep $36 million
Box part $160 meg[2]

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film directed by 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 by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 picture show of the same proper noun. Never Say Never Again was not produced by Eon Productions, simply by Jack Schwartzman'due south Taliafilm. The film was executive produced by Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory retained the filming rights of the novel following a long legal boxing dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the role of Bond for the 7th and final time, marking his return to the grapheme 12 years later Diamonds Are Forever. The film'southward title is a reference to Connery'southward reported announcement in 1971 that he would "never" play that role over again. As Connery was 52 at the fourth dimension of filming, although nearly iii years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bail who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of 2 nuclear weapons past SPECTRE. Filming locations included French republic, Spain, the Commonwealth of the bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never 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 equally more emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the day. The moving picture was a commercial success, grossing $160 meg at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the same year.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training do, his superior, M, orders Bond to a health clinic outside London to go back into shape. While at that place, Bail witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face is bandaged and subsequently Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a car which scans his eye. Bond is seen past 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 U.s. Air Strength airplane pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal arrangement run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an functioning on his right centre to get in match the retinal pattern 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 ii AGM-86B cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Chroma murders Petachi past causing his auto to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE'due south tracks.

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

Bond is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo's yacht is now heading for Dainty, France. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA analogue and friend, Felix Leiter. Bail goes to a health and dazzler centre 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 event, Largo and Bail play a three-D video game called Domination; the losing actor of each turn receives a serial 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 blood brother had been killed on Largo'southward orders. Bond returns to his villa to find Nicole killed by Blush. Afterward a vehicle chase on his Q-branch motorbike, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is eventually captured past Blush. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bond to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-upshot fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter endeavor 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 past kissing Domino in front end of a 2-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bail and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo'south base of operations in North Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond subsequently escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. After the first warhead is 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. Bail and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter's squad and Largo'southward men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bail catches and fights Largo underwater. Just as Largo tries to utilize a spear gun to shoot Bail, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother's death. Bond and so defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the earth. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret amanuensis.

Bandage [edit]

  • Sean Connery every bit James Bail, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman 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 Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt down and impale Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi, sis 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 as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 department Quartermaster who bug specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Trick as "M", Bond'southward superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, Yard'south secretarial assistant.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Function representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon every bit Lady in 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 kill Bond at the clinic.
  • Anthony Sharp as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders M 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 airplane pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi'due south brother.

Production [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 Bond film, to be called Longitude 78 Due west,[4] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[five] Fleming, "always reluctant to allow a proficient thought lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did non credit either McClory or Whittingham;[6] McClory and then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[iv] Later Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently fabricated a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and and then not brand any farther version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[viii]

In the mid-1970s McClory once more started working on a projection to bring a Thunderball adaptation to product 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 downwardly airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Freedom Island and Ellis Island 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.[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 motion-picture show based just on the novel Thunderball, and once again the project was deferred.[viii]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Hush-hush Service,[8] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that however surrounded the project[10] [iii] he decided against using Deighton's script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in gild to avert another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[eleven] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to brand the screenplay "somewhere in the centre" between his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such as Iii 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 equally he felt he was nether a moral obligation to Eon'south Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project afterwards Irvin Kershner was hired as director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the upkeep.[10] Connery then hired British goggle box writers Dick Cloudless and Ian La Frenais[11] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the last shooting script being theirs. This was because of a brake by the Writers Guild of America.[fourteen] Clement and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering it from day to day.[10]

The film underwent ane terminal change in championship: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond once more.[9] Connery'southward 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 end credits "Title Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A terminal attempt by Fleming's trustees to block the film was made in the High Court in London in the bound of 1983, just this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[16]

Bandage and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had starting time planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the function of Bond,[17] although the projection 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 printing, including Orson Welles for the function of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as director.[ix]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was existence used and Connery was in the frame again, potentially going caput-to-head with the next Eon Bond moving-picture show, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[nineteen] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Lord's day Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually beingness in the film."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 one thousand thousand ($eight million in 2020 dollars[21]), casting and script approving, and a percent of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple contradistinct the script to include several references to Bond's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that at that place are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland'south porter referring to Bond's motorcar ("They don't make 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 farther, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish angling trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Bounding main.[10] Connery's casting was formally appear in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to aid get in 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 Honor-winning Hungarian moving picture Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he withal retained his Eon-originated white cat in the flick.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy embrace daughter Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the proper 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 little bit of black widow and a fiddling scrap of praying mantis."[ten] Carrera'south operation as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Earth Award nomination for All-time Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met upwardly-and-coming extra Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed after Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the office of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more than memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson'due south character was added past Cloudless and La Frenais afterward the product had already started in club to provide the moving picture with a comic relief.[10] Edward Play a trick on was bandage equally M in order to portray the character as a young technocrat in dissimilarity to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry'south budget cuts to authorities services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to directly the film, but after coming together Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Former Eon Productions' editor and manager of On Her Majesty's Undercover Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to directly the picture 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 and so hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were as well appointed, including first assistant managing director David Tomblin, manager of photography Douglas Slocombe, 2nd 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's ship, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Once again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[fourteen] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually celebrated Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's ship, the Flight Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, so owned by Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and called the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed past 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 3 months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [10] Near of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some boosted shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Production on the flick was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the product duties with assistant manager David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a adept businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer".[32] After the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and afterward admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would price to brand.[35] There was tension on prepare between Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism behind the scenes and was on tape as saying that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse functioning!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this pic, broke Connery's wrist while preparation. On an episode of The Tonight Testify with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was broken until over a decade afterward.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman's first pick to compose the score later on beingness impressed with his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the time, wound upwardly unavailable according 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 equanimous a score similar to his work as a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the most disappointing characteristic of the moving picture".[24] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Once more", which featured lyrics past Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the University Award-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"[40] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] later on Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the vocal, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but the vocal — 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 not present in Never Say Never Over again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen total of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no attempt was fabricated to supply another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[43] instead the moving 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 $10,958,157 over the four-day Columbus Mean solar day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening record of any James Bond picture show" upwards to that signal[44] surpassing Octopussy 'south $viii.9 million from June that year. The film had its UK premiere at the Warner Westward 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 million.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 million.[46] [47] Information technology was the outset James Bail film to exist officially released in the Soviet Wedlock, 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] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, below), the company has released the film 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 "i of the improve Bonds",[53] finding the motion-picture show "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie likewise idea that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more appealing than ever as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a day older or thicker, and notwithstanding outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sexual practice and violence on the fashion".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very virtually make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Fourth dimension Out summed upward Never Say Never Once more maxim "The activeness's good, the photography excellent, the sets decent; just the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played by a human with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery'due south Bond, saying the motion-picture show contains "the best Bond in the concern",[56] only nevertheless did not find Never Say Never Once again whatsoever more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very nigh to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm'southward master effect with the film was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-office success and the effort to make character every bit important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed upwards that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch just not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends upwards making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an hour-glass full of clammy sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness every bit it approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early part of the moving-picture show 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 film and its cast. 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'south career".[59] Schickel'southward highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is skillful to see Connery's grave stylishness in this role again. It makes Bond'due south cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and globe weariness) equally opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the moving picture, saying she thought that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more than humor and character than the Bail films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin as well thought highly of Connery in the office, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to adapt an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the bill."[60] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Again is "one of the best James Bond adventure thrillers always made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is probable to remain a cherished, savory instance of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Once more is the best acted Bond picture e'er made, because it clearly surpasses whatever predecessors in the area of inventive and clever graphic symbol delineation".[61]

The critic for The World and Mail, Jay Scott, also praised the movie, maxim that Never Say Never Again "may be the only instalment of the long-running serial that has been helmed by a first-rate director."[62] Co-ordinate to Scott, the manager, with high-quality back up bandage, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the motion picture 3½ out of iv stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Over 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 being element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, every bit Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add together, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, past God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Adept piece of work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the picture show was "one of the all-time 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 person sexist fantasy, where women can be simply femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Considering Never Say Never Once more is not an Eon-produced film, it has non been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Once more "exist exterior the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this listing, but as they're absent from MGM's megabox. But take my word for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the picture show remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged 70% of the reviews as positive, with an boilerplate rating of v.60/x. The site's critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bail brand Never Say Never Over again a watchable retread."[67] The score is still more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Again 16th amid all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the pic has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film 3 of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was mayhap wise to telephone call it quits the offset time round".[lxx] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of 10, challenge that the moving-picture show "is more miss than hit".[71] The review as well thought that the pic was "marred with likewise many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bail being Bail".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the 9th best Bond film to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the film "is successful but as a portrait of an over-the-loma superhero." He admitted that "even by his prime, Connery proves that nobody does it meliorate".[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, [information technology] is possibly the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it'south a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the film makers couldn't offering him something better than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was great to meet Sean Connery render as James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He as well thought the supporting cast was good, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the most complex of Bond'southward foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary likewise wrote that the "film is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... Information technology would exist one of the all-time Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't work because viewers ordinarily tin'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 start a serial of Bail films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery equally James Bond, with McClory announcing the adjacent planned film S.P.East.C.T.R.E in a February 1984 upshot of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his office as Bond in some other motion-picture show produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the borderline to buy the rights to some other film for $v million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another moving picture without a deal 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 acquired McClory's rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and subsequently appear that it intended to make a series of Bond films, equally the company also held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This motility prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-courtroom, forcing Sony to requite upwardly all claims on Bond; McClory yet claimed he would proceed with some other Bond film,[79] and continued his case confronting MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's adapt.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally immune Eon Productions to make a serious, not-satirical pic adaptation of that novel the same year with Daniel Craig as James Bail. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, assuasive the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the flick Spectre.

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

Meet also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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