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1983 James Bail 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 by 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 by Jack Schwartzman
Starring
  • Sean Connery
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Max von Sydow
  • Barbara Carrera
  • Kim Basinger
  • Bernie Casey
  • Alec McCowen
  • Edward Fox
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Product
company

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

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

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • Uk
  • United States
Language English
Budget $36 million
Box office $160 one thousand thousand[ii]

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film directed by Irvin Kershner. The movie 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 film of the same name. Never Say Never Once more was non produced past Eon Productions, but by Jack Schwartzman'southward Taliafilm. The motion picture 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 time, marking his render to the character 12 years later on Diamonds Are Forever. The film's title is a reference to Connery'southward reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that role once more. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nearly three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought back into activeness to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.

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

Plot [edit]

Later MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training practice, his superior, K, orders Bail to a wellness clinic exterior London to get back into shape. While at that place, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The homo's face up is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a car which scans his eye. Bail is seen by Blush, who sends an assassinator, Lippe, to impale him in the clinic gym, just Bond manages to impale Lippe.

Chroma and her accuse, a heroin-addicted United States Air Force airplane pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal arrangement run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his right eye to make it match the retinal pattern of the US President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American military base of operations in England. While doing so, he replaces the dummy warheads of ii AGM-86B cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE and so steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Blush murders Petachi by causing his machine to crash and explode, roofing SPECTRE's tracks.

Foreign Secretarial assistant Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bail follows a lead to the Commonwealth of the bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the airplane pilot's sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'southward elevation amanuensis.

Bail is informed past Nigel Minor-Fawcett of the British Loftier Commission that Largo's yacht is at present heading for Prissy, France. There, Bail joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a health and beauty eye where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an outcome at a casino that evening. At the charity event, Largo and Bond play a iii-D video game called Domination; the losing player of each turn receives a series of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the corporeality wagered. Later losing a few games, Bond ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her brother had been killed on Largo's orders. Bail returns to his villa to find Nicole killed by Chroma. After a vehicle hunt on his Q-branch motorbike, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is eventually captured past Chroma. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bail to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter try to lath Largo's 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 two-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations 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. Subsequently the kickoff warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, beneath a desert haven on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the hush-hush facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter's team and Largo's men in the temple. In the defoliation, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bail catches and fights Largo underwater. Just as Largo tries to employ a spear gun to shoot Bail, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother's death. Bond then defuses the nuclear flop underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a cloak-and-dagger agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery equally James Bond, MI6 amanuensis 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire man of affairs and SPECTRE Number 1, SPECTRE'south senior-virtually agent. He is based on the character 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 chase down and kill Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger equally 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 equally Felix Leiter, Bond'south CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bail.
  • Edward Play a joke on as "Chiliad", Bail's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Pocket-sized-Fawcett, Strange Office representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahamas, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek every bit 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 Thousand to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy every bit Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's blood brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never 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,[iv] which was subsequently abased because of the costs involved.[five] Fleming, "always reluctant to allow a adept idea prevarication idle",[five] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[vi] McClory and so took Fleming to the Loftier Court in London for alienation of copyright[seven] and the affair was settled in 1963.[4] After Eon Productions started producing the Bail films, it after fabricated a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and so not brand any further version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[8]

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project 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 concluded 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 earlier taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Isle as staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[10] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the projection had gone across copyright restrictions, which bars McClory to a film based only on the novel Thunderball, and once once again the projection was deferred.[8]

Towards the terminate of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bail of the Cloak-and-dagger Service,[8] only when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal problems that still surrounded the project[x] [iii] he decided against using Deighton'south script. The projection returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avoid another 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 brand the screenplay "somewhere in the eye" between his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such as Three Days of the Condor.[ten] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; however, Mankiewicz declined every bit he felt he was under 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 cut out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the budget.[x] Connery so hired British idiot box writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[eleven] 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 restriction by the Writers Order of America.[14] Cloudless and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering it from 24-hour interval to twenty-four hours.[x]

The film underwent one final change in championship: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond over again.[ix] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the championship Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband's vow[xv] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the finish credits "Title Never Say Never Over again by Micheline Connery". A final attempt past Fleming's trustees to block the film was made in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Once again was permitted to proceed.[16]

Bandage and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the motion-picture show 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 issues involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the merchandise press, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going caput-to-head with the adjacent Eon Bail film, Moonraker.[xviii] By 1980, with legal bug once again causing the project to founder,[nineteen] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Limited: "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 Bail; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 million ($8 one thousand thousand in 2021 dollars[21]), casting and script approving, and a per centum of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bond's advancing years – playing on Connery existence 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 motion-picture show, such every bit the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond'due south 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.[10] 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 main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the pb of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian picture show Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow every bit Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he notwithstanding retained his Eon-originated white cat in the film.[26] For the femme fatale, manager Irvin Kershner selected one-time model and Playboy encompass girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from 1 of the early on 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 blackness widow and a little bit of praying mantis."[10] Carrera'south performance equally Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met up-and-coming extra Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor Business firm Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed after Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that every bit the Leiter part was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bail in his role of Johnny English language in 2003.[29] Atkinson's character was added by Clement and La Frenais after the production had already started in social club to provide the film with a comic relief.[10] Edward Fox was bandage as K in club to portray the grapheme as a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry's budget cuts to regime services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the moving picture, but after coming together Donner decided he disliked the script.[x] Erstwhile Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Underground Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to straight the film just 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 movie Raiders of the Lost Ark were too appointed, including commencement banana managing director David Tomblin, 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[fourteen] earlier moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was likewise one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, then endemic by 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 also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [10] Most of the filming was completed in the jump of 1983, although at that place was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Production on the motion picture was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the product duties with banana director David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was disquisitional of producer Jack Schwartzman, maxim that, while he was a good businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer".[32] Later on the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the moving-picture show would cost to make.[35] There was tension on set 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 record as maxim that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this film, broke Connery'southward wrist while training. On an episode of The This night Show with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was cleaved until over a decade later.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman's first choice to compose the score after being impressed with his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for almost of the time, wound upward unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman later claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bond composer John Barry was invited, simply declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Once again was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score like 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 feature of the film".[24] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Once again", which featured lyrics by 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] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman besides 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 not present in Never Say Never Again for legal reasons. These included the gun butt sequence, where a screen full of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no effort was made to supply another melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed only non used;[43] instead the motion picture opens with the credits run over the summit of the opening sequence of Bail on a preparation 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-24-hour interval Columbus Day weekend[two] which was reported to be "the best opening record of whatsoever James Bond film" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 'southward $8.nine million from June that year. The film had its United kingdom premiere at the Warner W End cinema in Leicester Square on 14 Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 million.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 1000000.[46] [47] It was the first James Bail picture 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 Once again on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[l] 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]

Gimmicky 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 Again was "1 of the better Bonds",[53] finding the moving-picture show "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie also thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more than appealing than ever as the fashionable resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also full-bodied on Connery, maxim that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a 24-hour interval 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 way".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very near arrive all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying "The action's practiced, the photography first-class, the sets decent; merely the existent clincher is the fact that Bond 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'south Bond, proverb the motion-picture show contains "the all-time Bond in the business concern",[56] but nevertheless did not find Never Say Never Again whatsoever more than 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's primary upshot with the picture was that he had a "feeling that a abiding struggle was going on between a desire to brand a huge box-office success and the endeavour to brand character as important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch but not surpassing information technology".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends upwards making no contribution of its ain and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an hour-drinking glass full of clammy sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness equally it approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early part of the film was handled "with wit and style",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung past Lorenzo Semple'south script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the film and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer'southward grapheme was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bond'due south career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is good to encounter Connery'south grave stylishness in this function once more. It makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of 18-carat worldliness (and globe weariness) every bit opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the picture show, saying she thought that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more humor and graphic symbol than the Bond films normally provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also idea highly of Connery in the role, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to conform 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 all-time James Bond take chances thrillers always made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is likely to remain a cherished, savory instance of commercial filmmaking at its most acute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the all-time acted Bond movie ever made, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character depiction".[61]

The critic for The Earth and Mail, Jay Scott, also praised the flick, maxim that Never Say Never Once again "may be the only instalment of the long-running serial that has been helmed by a outset-rate manager."[62] According to Scott, the manager, with high-quality back up cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the picture 3½ out of iv stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was dissimilar from other Bond films: "For one affair, at that place'south more of a human chemical element in the motion-picture show, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... but hither, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bail. Good work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the motion picture was "i of the all-time 007 adventures always made".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced film, it has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967'due south Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just as they're absent from MGM'due south megabox. But take my give-and-take for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the moving-picture show remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged 70% of the reviews as positive, with an average rating of 5.lx/ten. The site'due south critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the render of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bond 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 Again 16th amidst all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the moving-picture show has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on xv critics, indicating mostly favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film three of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to call it quits the beginning fourth dimension circular".[seventy] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of v out of 10, claiming that the film "is more miss than hit".[71] The review also thought that the film was "marred with likewise many clunky exposition scenes and not plenty moments of Bond being Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Once again as the ninth best Bail film to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the film "is successful only as a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even past his prime, Connery proves that nobody does information technology better".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a flick which has "a hokey, jokey experience, [it] is possibly the worst-written Bail script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major thwarting that, having lured back the original 007, the motion picture makers couldn't offering him something better than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was nifty to come across Sean Connery return as James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He as well thought the supporting cast was good, proverb that Klaus Maria Brandauer'south Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... ane of the near circuitous of Bond'south foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary as well wrote that the "picture show 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 piece of work because viewers unremarkably can't tell the hero and villain apart and they know doubles are existence used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Over again was intended to get-go a series of Bond films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery equally James Bond, with McClory announcing the next planned film S.P.E.C.T.R.E in a February 1984 event of Screen International.[75] When Connery appear that he would not reprise his office as Bail in some other film produced past Schwartzman iii weeks before the borderline to purchase the rights to another pic for $5 meg, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make some other film 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 AD, but the picture was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory'southward rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and later on announced that it intended to make a series of Bond films, as the company likewise held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This move prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to requite upward all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would keep with another Bond picture show,[79] and connected his instance confronting MGM and Danjaq;[eighty] On 27 Baronial 2001 the court rejected McClory'southward suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's conquering of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical moving-picture show adaptation of that novel the same year with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon serial in the pic Spectre.

On 4 December 1997, MGM announced that the visitor had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Over 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 besides [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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