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1983 James Bond pic 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 poster by Renato Casaro
Directed by 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 Fox
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.Chiliad.)[one]

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

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • Great britain
  • U.s.
Linguistic communication English language
Upkeep $36 meg
Box office $160 meg[2]

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film directed by Irvin Kershner. The picture is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story past Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 moving-picture show of the same proper noun. Never Say Never Again was not produced past Eon Productions, merely by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The moving-picture show 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 last time, marking his return to the grapheme 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film'south title is a reference to Connery'southward reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that role again. Every bit Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nigh 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 past SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Kingdom of spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.

Never Say Never Again was released by Warner Bros. on seven October 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the acting of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise equally more emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the 24-hour interval. The pic was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the aforementioned year.

Plot [edit]

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

Blush and her charge, a heroin-fond United States Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his right eye to brand it match the retinal pattern of the United states 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 2 AGM-86B cruise missiles with alive nuclear warheads; SPECTRE then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Blush murders Petachi by causing his machine to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE'southward tracks.

Foreign Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant Chiliad to reactivate the double-0 department, and Bond 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'southward top agent.

Bond is informed past Nigel Modest-Fawcett of the British High Committee that Largo's yacht is at present heading for Nice, France. In that location, Bail joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bail goes to a health and dazzler centre where he poses every bit 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 three-D video game chosen Domination; the losing player of each turn receives a series of electrical shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. Afterward losing a few games, Bond ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her blood brother had been killed on Largo's orders. Bond returns to his villa to observe Nicole killed past Blush. After a vehicle chase on his Q-branch motorbike, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is eventually captured by Chroma. 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-issue fountain pen gun to impale Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter attempt 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 ii-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations in N Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her expose by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond afterward escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.Due south. Navy submarine. Later on the start warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they rails Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, below a desert haven on the Ethiopian coast. Bail and Leiter infiltrate the hole-and-corner facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter'due south squad and Largo's men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Just as Largo tries to use a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her blood brother's death. Bail and so defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bail retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret amanuensis.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number i, 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 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 picture show.
  • Bernie Casey every bit Felix Leiter, Bond'south CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen equally "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox every bit "M", Bond'southward superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, Yard's secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Office representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon every bit Lady in Commonwealth of the bahamas, whom Bail seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as 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 every bit Lord Ambrose, Strange Secretary who orders One thousand 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 pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's blood brother.

Product [edit]

Never Say Never Once again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[three] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bail film, to be called Longitude 78 West,[4] which was subsequently abased because of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a practiced idea lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[half-dozen] McClory then took Fleming to the High Courtroom in London for breach of copyright[seven] and the matter was settled in 1963.[four] Later Eon Productions started producing the Bail films, it subsequently made a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not make whatever farther version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[eight]

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[9] A lawsuit with Eon Productions concluded in a ruling that McClory endemic 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 before 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.[ten] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the projection had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a moving-picture show based but on the novel Thunderball, and one time once 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,[eight] just when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the project[10] [iii] he decided against using Deighton's script. The projection returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in society to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the outcome in a 1980 presidential fence with Ronald Reagan.[eleven] Schwartzman brought on lath scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to piece of work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to make the screenplay "somewhere in the middle" between his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such as Three Days of the Condor.[10] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; however, Mankiewicz declined every bit 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 director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to salvage on the upkeep.[10] Connery then hired British tv set writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[eleven] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the terminal shooting script beingness theirs. This was because of a restriction by the Writers Social club of America.[xiv] Cloudless and La Frenais connected rewriting during the product, frequently altering information technology from day to day.[10]

The film underwent one final change in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bail again.[9] Connery'southward married woman, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband'southward vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the end credits "Title Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A last endeavor by Fleming's trustees to cake the motion picture 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 more was permitted to proceed.[16]

Cast and coiffure [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the moving picture in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part 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 One thousand and Richard Attenborough as director.[ix]

In 1978, the working title James Bail of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame over again, potentially going caput-to-head with the next Eon Bond motion picture, Moonraker.[eighteen] Past 1980, with legal problems again causing the project to founder,[nineteen] Connery idea himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Limited: "When I outset worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually beingness in the movie."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bail; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 million ($8 1000000 in 2020 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percent of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the function, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bail's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[22] – and bookish Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the pic, such as the Shrubland'due south porter referring to Bail's car ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new M having no utilize for the 00 section 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 fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the Northward Sea.[ten] Connery's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help become in shape for the production.[x]

For the principal villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Laurels-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[24] Through the aforementioned route came Max von Sydow equally Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he however retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the film.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy encompass girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the name coming from ane of the early scripts of Thunderball.[14] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a piddling bit of blackness widow and a footling bit of praying mantis."[x] Carrera's performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Extra,[27] which she lost to Cher for her office in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's married woman, had met up-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor Firm Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed subsequently Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino office. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, maxim that as the Leiter role was never remembered past audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more than memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would after parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson's character was added by Clement and La Frenais later on the production had already started in order to provide the film with a comic relief.[x] Edward Fob was cast as Thousand in social club to portray the character as a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry's budget cuts to government services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, merely after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Quondam Eon Productions' editor and manager of On Her Majesty'due south Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the movie 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 then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit managing 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 every bit Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for 2 months[14] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November[12] where filming took identify at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo'due south Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo'southward ship, the Flight Saucer, was portrayed past the yacht Kingdom 5KR, then owned by Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and chosen the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed by Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[10] Chief photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took iii months to construct, while the Shrublands wellness spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [10] About of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Product on the moving picture was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[32] Managing director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a practiced man of affairs, "he didn't have the experience of a picture producer".[32] After 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 film would cost to make.[35] In that location 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 saying that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse functioning!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this picture, broke Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Prove 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 starting time choice to compose the score after being impressed with his piece of work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for well-nigh of the fourth dimension, wound up 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 composed 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 feature of the film".[24] Legrand likewise wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the Academy Laurels-winning song "The Windmills of Your Listen"[twoscore] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] afterward Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme vocal, 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 Bail films were not present in Never Say Never Again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel 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 but not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the peak of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Over again opened on vii October 1983 in one,550 theatres grossing an October record $10,958,157 over the iv-day Columbus Mean solar day weekend[2] which was reported to exist "the best opening record of any James Bond pic" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 'southward $viii.ix 1000000 from June that year. The film had its UK premiere at the Warner West Cease movie house in Leicester Square on 14 December 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid render on the budget of $36 million.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 meg.[46] [47] It was the first James Bond moving-picture show 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 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, beneath), 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 Once again was "1 of the better Bonds",[53] finding the film "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 appealing than ever as the fashionable resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times too full-bodied on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking inappreciably a day older or thicker, and nevertheless outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex and violence on the mode".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer equally Maximillian Largo "very nearly make information technology all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Once more proverb "The activity's good, the photography splendid, the sets decent; simply the existent clincher is the fact that Bail is once more played by a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bond, saying the film contains "the all-time Bond in the business",[56] merely nevertheless did not observe Never Say Never Over again any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very most to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm'southward main result with the picture show was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on betwixt a desire to brand a huge box-office success and the effort to make character equally important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the aforementioned – up to scratch only not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends up making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an hour-glass full 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 film was handled "with wit and mode",[58] although he went on to say that the managing director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple's script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the picture and its bandage. 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 take slithered through Bond'southward career".[59] Schickel'south highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is good to run into Connery'due south grave stylishness in this role once again. It makes Bond'south cynicism and opportunism seem the production of genuine worldliness (and earth weariness) equally opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, saying she thought that Never Say Never Over again "has noticeably more than humor and character than the Bond films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin too idea highly of Connery in the role, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to accommodate an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the bill."[60] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Once more is "1 of the best James Bail adventure thrillers ever 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 accomplished."[61] Arnold went farther, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the all-time acted Bond picture e'er made, because it clearly surpasses whatsoever predecessors in the surface area of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott, too praised the film, maxim that Never Say Never Again "may be the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a start-rate director."[62] Co-ordinate to Scott, the director, with high-quality support cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Once more, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was unlike from other Bond films: "For one thing, in that location'due south more of a human chemical element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bail. Good piece of work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune besides gave the pic 3½ out of four stars, writing that the film was "ane 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 Once again is a conceited male sexist fantasy, where women can be only femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced flick, 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 listing, just equally they're absent from MGM's megabox. Just take my word for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged 70% of the reviews as positive, with an average rating of 5.sixty/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the render of both Sean Connery and a more than 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 among all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the motion picture has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film iii of a possible 5 stars, observing that "Connery was maybe wise to telephone call it quits the first time circular".[lxx] IGN gave Never Say Never Once again a score of 5 out of 10, claiming that the film "is more miss than hitting".[71] The review likewise thought that the moving picture was "marred with as well many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bond being Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Amusement Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the ninth best Bond picture to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the film "is successful only equally a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "fifty-fifty 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 movie which has "a hokey, jokey experience, [it] is possibly the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it'south a major thwarting that, having lured back the original 007, the film makers couldn't offer him something improve than this fatigued-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was great to see Sean Connery render as James Bond afterward a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting cast was adept, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the virtually complex of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary also wrote that the "film is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be one of the best Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't piece of work considering viewers usually tin 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 start a serial of Bond films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery equally James Bond, with McClory announcing the next planned film South.P.E.C.T.R.E in a Feb 1984 issue of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his role equally Bond in another motion-picture show produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the deadline to purchase the rights to some other film for $five million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another film without a bargain from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to make some other adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 Advertizing, but the moving picture was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory'due south rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and later on announced that it intended to make a series of Bond films, equally the company also 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 surrender all claims on Bond; McClory however claimed he would proceed with another Bail film,[79] and continued his instance against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the courtroom rejected McClory'due south conform.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'south conquering of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical flick adaptation of that novel the same twelvemonth with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, assuasive the visitor to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon serial in the flick Spectre.

On 4 December 1997, MGM announced that the visitor had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Again from Schwartzman'southward company Taliafilm.[82] [83] The visitor has since handled the release of both the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the picture.[84] [52]

See also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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  • Never Say Never Over again at IMDb
  • Never Say Never Again at AllMovie
  • Never Say Never Again at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Never Say Never Over again at Box Office Mojo
  • Never Say Never Again at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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