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1983 James Bail film directed by Irvin Kershner

Never Say Never Over 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 poster by 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 Fox
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music past Michel Legrand

Production
company

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

Release dates
  • vii Oct 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.South.)
  • 15 Dec 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.K.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • Great britain
  • United States
Language English
Budget $36 one thousand thousand
Box office $160 million[2]

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy movie directed by Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball past Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story past Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adjusted in a 1965 film of the same proper name. Never Say Never Again was non produced past Eon Productions, just past Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The moving picture was executive produced by Kevin McClory, 1 of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory retained the filming rights of the novel post-obit a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the part of Bail for the 7th and terminal time, marking his return to the grapheme 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The moving picture's championship is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that office once more. Every bit 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 dorsum into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahama islands and Elstree Studios in the Uk.

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 as more than emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the twenty-four hour period. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box function, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the same yr.

Plot [edit]

Later on MI6 amanuensis James Bond, 007, fails a routine preparation practice, his superior, M, orders Bail to a health clinic exterior London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's confront is bandaged and after Chroma finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a auto which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Blush, who sends an assassinator, Lippe, to kill 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 correct centre 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 armed services base in England. While doing so, he replaces the dummy warheads of two AGM-86B prowl 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 auto to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE's tracks.

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

Bond is informed past Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Committee that Largo'southward yacht is at present heading for Overnice, French republic. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a health 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 event at a casino that evening. At the charity event, Largo and Bond play a 3-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 brother had been killed on Largo'south orders. Bond returns to his villa to find Nicole killed by Blush. Later a vehicle chase on his Q-branch motorbike, Bail finds himself in an deadfall and is eventually captured by 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, and so uses his Q-branch-result fountain pen gun to impale Chroma with an explosive dart.

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

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. Afterward the kickoff warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the surreptitious 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. Bail catches and fights Largo underwater. Just as Largo tries to use a spear gun to shoot Bail, he is shot with a spear gun past Domino, taking revenge for her brother's decease. Bond then defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bail retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never over again to be a hugger-mugger agent.

Bandage [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number one, SPECTRE's senior-most amanuensis. He is based on the character Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow equally Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera as Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt downwardly and kill 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 changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the picture show.
  • Bernie Casey equally Felix Leiter, Bond'due south CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen every bit "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 department Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox equally "1000", Bond's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, Yard'due south secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson equally Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Role representative in the Bahama islands.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahama islands, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek equally Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach every bit 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 equally Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used past SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi'south brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early on 1960s, post-obit the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[3] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond movie, to be called Longitude 78 West,[4] which was later abandoned because of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a adept idea lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[6] McClory then took Fleming to the Loftier Court in London for breach of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[iv] Later on Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and and so not make any farther version of the novel for a flow of 10 years post-obit 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 title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[9] A lawsuit with Eon Productions ended in a ruling that McClory owned the sole rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld, forcing Eon to remove them from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).[10] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle earlier taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Island 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 afterward accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which bars McClory to a flick based simply on the novel Thunderball, and once over again the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Secret Service,[8] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the projection[10] [three] he decided confronting using Deighton'south script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avert another lawsuit from Danjaq and afterward McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to brand the screenplay "somewhere in the middle" betwixt his campier projects such every bit Batman and his more serious projects such as Three Days of the Condor.[10] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the piece of work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; all the same, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[thirteen] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project afterwards Irvin Kershner was hired as manager and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the budget.[10] Connery then hired British television writers Dick Cloudless and Ian La Frenais[eleven] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the terminal shooting script being theirs. This was considering of a restriction by the Writers Gild of America.[14] Clement and La Frenais connected rewriting during the product, oftentimes altering it from day to day.[x]

The film underwent one final alter in title: later on Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond once more.[9] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Once more, referring to her husband's vow[xv] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the end credits "Title Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A terminal attempt by Fleming'due south trustees to block the flick was made in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, only this was thrown out past the courtroom and Never Say Never Once again was permitted to proceed.[xvi]

Bandage and coiffure [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the flick in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[17] although the project came to nothing because of the legal problems 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 office of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play G and Richard Attenborough equally director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Underground Service was existence used and Connery was in the frame again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bond movie, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal bug again causing the project to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the part, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually being in the film."[twenty] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 million ($8 million in 2021 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percent of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the part, Semple contradistinct the script to include several references to Bail'southward advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Blackness has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the movie, such as the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's auto ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new M having no utilize for the 00 department and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond'south age even further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish line-fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the N Body of water.[10] Connery's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help go far shape for the production.[10]

For the principal villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow every bit Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he withal retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the film.[26] For the femme fatale, managing director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy embrace girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[xiv] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little bit of black widow and a picayune bit of praying mantis."[10] Carrera's operation every bit Fatima Blush earned her a Gilded 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 upward-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 role. For the function of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, proverb 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 subsequently parody Bail in his office of Johnny English language in 2003.[29] Atkinson'south character was added past Cloudless and La Frenais after the product had already started in order to provide the film with a comic relief.[10] Edward Fox was cast every bit M in lodge to portray the character as a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry'southward upkeep cuts to regime services.[x]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the picture, but afterward coming together Donner decided he disliked the script.[ten] Quondam 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 piece of 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 coiffure from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant managing director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, 2d 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'due south ship, the Flight 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 Bahama islands in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo'southward Palmyran fortress was really historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's ship, the Flight Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, then owned past Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and called the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed by Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[10] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree as well housed the Tears of Allah underwater cave, which took 3 months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [ten] Almost of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summertime of 1983.[12]

Product on the motion picture was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production 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 moving-picture show producer".[32] Afterward the product ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the flick would cost to make.[35] At that place was tension on set up 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 every bit maxim that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

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

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman'southward starting time choice to etch the score afterward existence impressed with his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for almost of the time, wound upwards unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman afterwards 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 Again was written past Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his work as a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised every bit "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the near disappointing characteristic of the film".[24] Legrand besides wrote the chief theme "Never Say Never Once more", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had too worked with Legrand on the University Award-winning song "The Windmills of Your Listen"[twoscore] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman too recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, only the vocal — 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 at that place was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no effort was made to supply some other melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed only not used;[43] instead the film 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-mean solar day Columbus Solar day weekend[ii] which was reported to exist "the best opening tape of any James Bond film" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $viii.9 million from June that year. The pic had its UK premiere at the Warner West Cease movie theatre in Leicester Square on 14 December 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 one thousand thousand,[45] which was a solid return on the upkeep of $36 million.[45] The flick ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 million.[46] [47] Information technology was the first James Bond film 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 more on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[50] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (run across 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 past the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Limited, said that Never Say Never Again was "one of the better Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is well-baked and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie too 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 full-bodied on Connery, proverb that: "Connery ... is back, looking inappreciably a twenty-four hour period older or thicker, and nonetheless outclassing every other exponent of the function, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sexual practice and violence on the style".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very virtually arrive all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Once more saying "The action'south adept, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bail is once more played past a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to exist a fan of Connery's Bond, saying the film contains "the all-time Bail in the business concern",[56] merely withal did not detect Never Say Never Again whatsoever more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm's primary issue with the film was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a want to make a huge box-office success and the attempt to make character equally of import equally stunts".[56] Malcolm summed upwardly that "the mix remains obstinately the aforementioned – upward to scratch but not surpassing it".[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 total of damp sand, the picture show moves with increasing slowness as 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 mode",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple's script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Fourth dimension magazine praised the film 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's highest praise was saved for the render of Connery, observing "it is good to come across Connery'southward grave stylishness in this role again. It makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and earth weariness) every bit opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, maxim she thought that Never Say Never Over again "has noticeably more sense of humour and character than the Bond films commonly provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[threescore] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the office, observing that "in Never Say Never Once again, the formula is broadened to accommodate an older, seasoned human of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the pecker."[sixty] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Once more is "one of the best James Bond adventure thrillers always made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is likely to remain a cherished, savory case of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and achieved."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Once more is the best acted Bail picture ever made, because information technology clearly surpasses any predecessors in the expanse of inventive and clever graphic symbol depiction".[61]

The critic for The World and Postal service, Jay Scott, also praised the film, saying that Never Say Never Once more "may exist the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a first-rate manager."[62] According to Scott, the managing director, with high-quality support cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the film three½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was dissimilar from other Bail films: "For one affair, there'due south more of a human 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 hither, 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 4 stars, writing that the moving-picture show was "one of the best 007 adventures e'er fabricated".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced film, information technology 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 exterior the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just as they're absent from MGM'due south megabox. But take my word for it; they're both pretty atrocious".[66] Retrospective reviews of the pic remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged seventy% of the reviews equally positive, with an average rating of 5.threescore/ten. The site'due south critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bond brand Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is even so more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Once more 16th among all Bail films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on xv critics, indicating more often than not favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film iii of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to call information technology quits the first time circular".[lxx] IGN gave Never Say Never Once more a score of 5 out of 10, challenge that the film "is more miss than striking".[71] The review also thought that the film was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bail existence Bail".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the 9th best Bond motion-picture show to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter idea the motion-picture show "is successful only every bit 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 experience, [it] is perchance the worst-written Bail script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the film makers couldn't offer him something meliorate than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was bang-up to come across Sean Connery render every bit James Bail afterward a dozen years".[74] He besides thought the supporting cast was proficient, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer'southward Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the most complex of Bail'southward foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary also wrote that the "picture show is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be one of the best Bail films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't work because viewers normally 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 kickoff a series of Bail films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery every bit James Bond, with McClory announcing the next planned movie S.P.Eastward.C.T.R.E 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 flick for $5 one thousand thousand, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another movie 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 Advertizing, but the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures caused McClory'south rights for an undisclosed amount,[four] and subsequently announced that it intended to make a serial of Bond films, as the company as well held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This move prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-courtroom, forcing Sony to surrender all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would go along with another Bond motion picture,[79] and continued his example against MGM and Danjaq;[eighty] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally immune Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical moving picture adaptation of that novel the same yr with Daniel Craig equally James Bond. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon serial in the picture show Spectre.

On four December 1997, MGM announced that the company 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 also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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