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1983 James Bond flick directed by Irvin Kershner

Never Say Never Again
A poster at the top of which are the words "SEAN CONNERY as JAMES BOND in". Below this is a head and shoulders image of man in a dinner suit. Inset either side of him, are smaller scale depictions of two women, one blonde and one brunette. Underneath the picture are the words "NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN"

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

Production
company

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

Release dates
  • 7 October 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.S.)
  • 15 Dec 1983 (1983-12-fifteen) (U.Thou.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United kingdom
  • United states of america
Language English
Budget $36 million
Box role $160 million[2]

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy moving-picture show directed by Irvin Kershner. The moving picture is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in plow was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 film of the same name. Never Say Never Over again was not produced by Eon Productions, only by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The 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 post-obit a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the office of Bond for the seventh and last time, marking his render to the character 12 years subsequently Diamonds Are Forever. The film's championship is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that role again. As Connery was 52 at the fourth dimension of filming, although nearly three years younger than incumbent Bail Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought back into activity to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included French republic, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never Over 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 every bit more emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the day. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 1000000 at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the same twelvemonth.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, G, orders Bond to a health clinic outside 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 human's confront is bandaged and after Blush finishes her chirapsia, Bond sees the patient using a machine which scans his eye. Bail is seen past Blush, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to kill him in the dispensary gym, merely Bail manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her charge, a heroin-fond U.s. Air Force airplane pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an functioning on his right middle to make it lucifer the retinal pattern of the US President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American military base in England. While doing so, he replaces the dummy warheads of 2 AGM-86B cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Chroma murders Petachi past causing his machine to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE'southward tracks.

Strange Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant One thousand to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking downward the missing weapons. Bond follows a atomic number 82 to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot'due south sis, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE's top agent.

Bond is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo's yacht is now heading for Overnice, France. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a health and beauty heart where he poses equally an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an result at a casino that evening. At the charity event, Largo and Bond play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing player of each turn receives a serial of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. Later on losing a few games, Bail ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her blood brother had been killed on Largo'south orders. Bond returns to his villa to find Nicole killed by Blush. After a vehicle chase on his Q-branch motorbike, Bond finds himself in an deadfall and is somewhen captured by Blush. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bond to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen gun to impale Chroma with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter endeavour to board Largo'south 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 forepart of a ii-mode 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. Bail subsequently escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. Afterward the beginning warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known equally the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun battle erupts betwixt Leiter's team and Largo's men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the 2nd warhead. Bail catches and fights Largo underwater. But as Largo tries to utilize a spear gun to shoot Bail, he is shot with a spear gun past Domino, taking revenge for her brother's death. Bail then defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never once more to be a secret agent.

Bandage [edit]

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

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[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 West,[4] which was afterward abandoned considering of the costs involved.[five] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a skilful 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 High Courtroom in London for breach of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] Afterward Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently made a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and and so not brand any further version of the novel for a menstruum of 10 years post-obit the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[viii]

In the mid-1970s McClory over again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to piece of work on a script.[nine] A lawsuit with Eon Productions ended in a ruling that McClory owned the sole rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld, forcing Eon to remove them from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).[x] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting downwardly airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle earlier taking over Freedom Island and Ellis Island every bit staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased past Paramount Pictures in 1978.[ten] The script ran into difficulties subsequently accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based just on the novel Thunderball, and one time over again the project was deferred.[eight]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project nether the proper noun James Bond of the Secret Service,[eight] only when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal problems that withal surrounded the project[10] [iii] he decided against using Deighton'southward script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avoid some other lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[eleven] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to make the screenplay "somewhere in the eye" betwixt his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such equally 3 Days of the Condor.[x] 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 as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project after Irvin Kershner was hired as director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the budget.[ten] Connery then hired British television writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[11] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script being theirs. This was because of a brake past the Writers Order of America.[fourteen] Cloudless and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering it from twenty-four hours to day.[x]

The moving-picture show underwent i terminal change in title: subsequently 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 championship Never Say Never Again, referring to her hubby's vow[xv] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the end credits "Title Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A last attempt past Fleming's trustees to block the pic was fabricated in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the courtroom and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[16]

Cast and coiffure [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the role of Bond,[17] although the project came to zippo because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade printing, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as managing director.[9]

In 1978, the working championship James Bond of the Cloak-and-dagger Service was being used and Connery was in the frame over again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[xviii] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, equally he stated in an interview in the Dominicus Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually beingness in the film."[xx] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bail; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $three meg ($8 meg in 2020 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percentage of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the function, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bail'south advancing years – playing on Connery beingness 52 at the time of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that in that location are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's automobile ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new M having no use for the 00 department and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond's age even further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the N Ocean.[ten] Connery'southward casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to assistance get in shape for the production.[10]

For the main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the atomic number 82 of the 1981 University Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[24] Through the aforementioned route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he however retained his Eon-originated white cat in the moving picture.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected erstwhile model and Playboy comprehend daughter Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one 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 fleck of black widow and a lilliputian bit of praying mantis."[10] Carrera's operation as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Honor nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean'southward married woman, had met up-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House 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, saying that as the Leiter role was never remembered past audiences, using a black Leiter might brand him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would afterward parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson's graphic symbol was added by Clement and La Frenais after the product had already started in guild to provide the film with a comic relief.[10] Edward Fox was cast as M in society 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, but later meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[x] One-time Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty'due south Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the film but declined due to his previous work with Eon.[thirty] 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 so hired. A number of the coiffure from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were likewise appointed, including first banana director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit manager 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 transport, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Once more began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[fourteen] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-Nov[12] where filming took identify at Clifton Pier, which was also ane 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, and 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.[ten] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cave, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [x] Most of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summertime of 1983.[12]

Production on the film was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with banana managing director David Tomblin.[32] Managing director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, proverb that, while he was a skillful man of affairs, "he didn't accept the experience of a film producer".[32] After the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the film 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 saying that the whole production was a "encarmine Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this picture show, 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 broken until over a decade later.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman'due south outset 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 about of the time, wound up unavailable co-ordinate to Kershner, though Schwartzman afterwards claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bail composer John Barry was invited, only 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 motion-picture show".[24] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the University Award-winning vocal "The Windmills of Your Mind"[twoscore] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the vocal, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, simply 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 utilize, although no effort was made to supply some other melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed only not used;[43] instead the motion picture opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bail on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on 7 Oct 1983 in 1,550 theatres grossing an October tape $x,958,157 over the four-24-hour interval Columbus 24-hour interval weekend[2] which was reported to exist "the best opening record of whatever James Bond film" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.9 million from June that year. The moving picture had its Great britain premiere at the Warner Westward End movie theater in Leicester Square on 14 Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Once again grossed $160 meg,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 million.[45] The motion-picture show ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.v million.[46] [47] It 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 Again on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[50] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, below), the visitor has released the moving-picture show 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 more was "one of the better Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie too thought that "Connery has lost none of his amuse and, if anything, is more appealing than e'er as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is dorsum, looking hardly a day older or thicker, and even so outclassing every other exponent of the part, 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 equally Maximillian Largo "very well-nigh make information technology all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Over again saying "The action's adept, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the existent clincher is the fact that Bond is once more than played by a human with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bail, maxim the flick contains "the all-time Bail in the concern",[56] but nevertheless did not find 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 Russian federation with Beloved".[56] Malcolm'south main effect with the picture show was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-office success and the endeavor to make graphic symbol as important equally stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – upward to scratch but non surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends upward making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French ended that "like an hour-drinking glass total of damp sand, the picture 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 movie was handled "with wit and style",[58] although he went on to say that the manager was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple's script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time mag praised the moving 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 have slithered through Bail'due south career".[59] Schickel'due south highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is skilful to run across Connery's grave stylishness in this office once more. It makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and world weariness) equally opposed to Roger Moore'southward mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the moving-picture show, proverb she thought that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more humor and character than the Bail films ordinarily provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the part, 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, proverb that Never Say Never Once more is "one of the best James Bail adventure thrillers always made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its nigh acute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went farther, proverb that "Never Say Never Once again is the best acted Bail moving picture ever made, considering it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character depiction".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail service, Jay Scott, likewise praised the film, saying that Never Say Never Again "may be the but instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a first-rate director."[62] According to Scott, the director, with high-quality back up cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the flick 3½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a bones "Bond plot", was unlike from other Bond films: "For one matter, there'due south more of a human chemical element in the picture show, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "at that place was never a Beatles reunion ... only here, past God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Good piece of work, 007."[63] Factor Siskel of The Chicago Tribune likewise gave the film three½ out of 4 stars, writing that the film was "one of the best 007 adventures ever made".[64]

Colin Greenland reviewed Never Say Never Again for Imagine magazine, and stated that "Never Say Never Over again is a complacent 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 film, information technology has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Once again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, only every bit they're absent-minded from MGM's megabox. But accept 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 equally positive, with an average rating of 5.60/x. The site'south disquisitional consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bail make Never Say Never Once again a watchable retread."[67] The score is withal more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Again 16th among all Bail films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the motion-picture show has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film three of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to call it quits the first fourth dimension round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of 10, challenge that the film "is more than miss than hit".[71] The review besides idea that the film was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and non plenty moments of Bond being Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Once more as the 9th best Bond motion-picture show to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the film "is successful only every bit a portrait of an over-the-loma 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 Over again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a film which has "a hokey, jokey feel, [it] is possibly the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the film makers couldn't offer him something better than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was great to encounter Sean Connery render as James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting bandage was good, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the well-nigh 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 volition filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't piece of work considering viewers usually can't tell the hero and villain autonomously and they know doubles are being used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Over again was intended to get-go a series of Bail films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bail, with McClory announcing the next planned moving-picture show S.P.East.C.T.R.E in a February 1984 consequence of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his role equally Bond in another film produced by Schwartzman three weeks earlier the deadline to purchase the rights to another film for $5 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 another adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 Ad, but the picture show was somewhen scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory's rights for an undisclosed corporeality,[4] and later on appear that it intended to brand a series of Bond films, as the visitor also 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 give up all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would proceed with another Bond moving-picture show,[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'southward acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical film adaptation of that novel the same year 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 series in the film Spectre.

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

See too [edit]

  • Outline of James Bail

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