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1983 James Bond film directed past Irvin Kershner

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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 by
  • Kevin McClory
  • Jack Whittingham
  • Ian Fleming
Based on Thunderball
by Ian Fleming
Produced by Jack Schwartzman
Starring
  • Sean Connery
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Max von Sydow
  • Barbara Carrera
  • Kim Basinger
  • Bernie Casey
  • Alec McCowen
  • Edward Fox
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
visitor

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

Release dates
  • vii October 1983 (1983-ten-07) (U.S.)
  • 15 Dec 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.K.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • Great britain
  • United states of america
Language English language
Upkeep $36 meg
Box office $160 million[2]

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy picture show directed by Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 picture show of the same name. Never Say Never Again was non produced by Eon Productions, but by Jack Schwartzman'south Taliafilm. The moving picture was executive produced by Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory retained the filming rights of the novel following a long legal boxing dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the role of Bail for the 7th and final time, marker his render to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film'south title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that function again. Equally Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although most iii years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought back into activity to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons past SPECTRE. Filming locations included French republic, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never Again was released by Warner Bros. on 7 October 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the acting of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise as more emotionally resonant than the typical Bail films of the solar day. The picture show was a commercial success, grossing $160 1000000 at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released before the same twelvemonth.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 amanuensis James Bond, 007, fails a routine training do, his superior, M, orders Bond to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bail witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face is bandaged and afterwards Chroma finishes her beating, Bail sees the patient using a car which scans his middle. Bond is seen by Chroma, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, merely Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her charge, a heroin-addicted 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 operation on his right eye to make information technology 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 cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Chroma murders Petachi by causing his auto to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE's tracks.

Foreign Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking downwards the missing weapons. Bond follows a lead to the Bahama islands where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot's sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'southward top agent.

Bail is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Committee that Largo's yacht is now heading for Squeamish, France. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA analogue and friend, Felix Leiter. Bail goes to a health and beauty centre where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an event at a casino that evening. At the charity event, Largo and Bond play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing player of each turn receives a series of electrical shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. After losing a few games, Bail 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 find Nicole killed by Blush. After a vehicle hunt on his Q-branch motorcycle, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is eventually captured past Blush. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bail to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-co-operative-issue fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter effort to board Largo's motor yacht, the Flight Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to make Largo jealous by kissing Domino in front of a two-style mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo'southward base in N Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal past selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond after escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.Due south. Navy submarine. After the first warhead is establish and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, below a desert haven on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the hugger-mugger facility and a gun battle erupts betwixt Leiter'due south team and Largo'southward men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the 2d warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Only equally Largo tries to use a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun past Domino, taking revenge for her brother'south death. Bond then defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the globe. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 amanuensis 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number one, SPECTRE's senior-most agent. He is based on the character Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow every bit Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the caput of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera as Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt 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 moving-picture show.
  • Bernie Casey every bit Felix Leiter, Bond'south CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who problems specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Flim-flam as "Grand", Bond'south superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, Yard's secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Office representative in the Bahama islands.
  • Valerie Leon equally Lady in Bahamas, whom Bond 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 as Lord Ambrose, Strange Secretary who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee every bit Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy every bit Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF airplane pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's blood brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[iii] 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,[iv] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[five] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a adept idea prevarication idle",[v] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[vi] McClory and so took Fleming to the High Courtroom in London for breach of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] Later on Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it after made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not make any further version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[8]

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to product and, with the working championship Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[9] A lawsuit with Eon Productions 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 before taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Island as staging areas for an invasion of New York Urban center through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[x] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which bars McClory to a film based only on the novel Thunderball, and one time again the projection was deferred.[eight]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the projection under the name James Bond of the Hugger-mugger Service,[8] but 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 order to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the consequence in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to piece of work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to brand the screenplay "somewhere in the heart" between his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such as Three Days of the Condor.[x] 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; however, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was nether a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project after Irvin Kershner was hired every bit managing director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "large numbers" from his script to save on the budget.[10] Connery and so hired British television receiver writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[11] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the concluding shooting script being theirs. This was because of a brake past the Writers Guild of America.[14] Cloudless and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering it from twenty-four hours to day.[10]

The pic underwent ane final change in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[9] Connery's married woman, Micheline, suggested the championship Never Say Never Over again, referring to her husband's vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past list on the end credits "Title Never Say Never Over again by Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming'southward trustees to block the film was made in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to go along.[16]

Cast and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the pic in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the office of Bond,[17] although the project came to null 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 press, including Orson Welles for the office of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough every bit managing director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bail of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame one time again, potentially going head-to-caput with the next Eon Bail film, Moonraker.[eighteen] By 1980, with legal issues once more causing the project to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I beginning worked on the script with Len I had no idea of really being in the moving picture."[twenty] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bail; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 one thousand thousand ($eight million in 2022 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percentage of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the part, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bond's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that in that location are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the picture, such as the Shrubland's porter referring to Bail's automobile ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new Thou having no utilise for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond's historic period even further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish line-fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Sea.[10] Connery'south casting was formally appear in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to assistance get in shape for the production.[10]

For the principal villain in the flick, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian motion picture Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he yet retained his Eon-originated white cat in the flick.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover daughter Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – 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 scrap of blackness widow and a little flake of praying mantis."[x] Carrera's performance equally Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for All-time Supporting Extra,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met up-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed afterwards Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, proverb that equally the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his office of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson's graphic symbol was added by Clement and La Frenais after the product had already started in club to provide the film with a comic relief.[10] Edward Fox was bandage as M in order to portray the character as a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry building'south budget cuts to government services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to directly the film, but after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Sometime Eon Productions' editor and managing director of On Her Majesty'south Hush-hush Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the film but declined due to his previous piece of 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 then hired. A number of the coiffure from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant director David Tomblin, managing director of photography Douglas Slocombe, 2d 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 equally Largo's transport, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Once more began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[14] before moving to Nassau, the Bahama islands in mid-Nov[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo'south Palmyran fortress was actually celebrated Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, and then owned by Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and called the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed past Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[x] Main photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree likewise housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [ten] Well-nigh of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some boosted shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Product on the film was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the product duties with banana director David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was disquisitional of producer Jack Schwartzman, maxim that, while he was a good businessman, "he didn't take 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 on admitted he had underestimated the amount the motion-picture show would toll to make.[35] In that location was tension on set betwixt Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism behind the scenes and was on tape as saying that the whole production was a "encarmine Mickey Mouse performance!"[36]

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

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman'southward showtime choice to etch the score afterward being impressed with his piece of work on Star Expedition II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for about of the time, wound up unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman afterward claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bail composer John Barry was invited, but declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Once more was written past 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 near disappointing feature of the film".[24] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had besides worked with Legrand on the Academy Award-winning song "The Windmills of Your Heed"[40] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] later on Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman besides recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but the song — an unsolicited submission — was passed over, given Legrand's contractual obligations with the music.[42]

Legal substitutions [edit]

The outlines of row upon row of "007 007 007 007 007" fill the screen. A view of countryside, heavily obstructed can be seen in through the gaps.

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bail films were non 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 apply, although no effort was made to supply another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the summit of the opening sequence of Bond on a grooming mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on 7 October 1983 in ane,550 theatres grossing an October record $ten,958,157 over the four-day Columbus Day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening record of any James Bond film" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.9 million from June that yr. The film had its UK premiere at the Warner Due west End movie theatre in Leicester Square on fourteen Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid render on the budget of $36 1000000.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.v million.[46] [47] It was the outset 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 Over again on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[50] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (come 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 by the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, 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 also thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if annihilation, is more appealing than ever every bit the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times likewise concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a 24-hour interval older or thicker, and however outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sexual activity and violence on the style".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very nearly make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed upwards Never Say Never Again maxim "The action'due south expert, the photography first-class, the sets decent; simply the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once again played past a human with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bond, saying the movie contains "the best Bond in the business",[56] only nevertheless did non find Never Say Never Again any 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'south main issue with the film was that he had a "feeling that a abiding struggle was going on betwixt a desire to make a huge box-role success and the effort to make graphic symbol as of import as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch only not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted movie ends upwardly making no contribution of its own and inviting dissentious comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French ended that "similar an hour-drinking glass total of damp sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness every bit it approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early office of the film was handled "with wit and manner",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple's script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time mag praised the film and its bandage. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer's graphic symbol was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who take slithered through Bond's career".[59] Schickel'due south highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is proficient to see Connery's grave stylishness in this function again. Information technology makes Bail's pessimism and opportunism seem the production of genuine worldliness (and earth weariness) as 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 Again "has noticeably more than sense of humor and character than the Bail films usually provide. Information technology has a marvelous villain in Largo."[threescore] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the function, observing that "in Never Say Never Once again, the formula is broadened to arrange an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the bill."[60] Writing in The Washington Mail, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Again is "ane of the all-time James Bond chance thrillers always made",[61] going on to say that "this motion picture is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its nigh acute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond moving picture ever made, considering it clearly surpasses whatever predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The World and Mail, Jay Scott, likewise praised the moving-picture show, saying that Never Say Never Again "may be the just instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a showtime-rate managing director."[62] According 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 Again, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was different from other Bail films: "For i thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and information technology 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 every bit Sir James Bond. Adept work, 007."[63] Factor Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the pic 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the film was "one of the best 007 adventures e'er fabricated".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced film, it has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again "be exterior the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this listing, just every bit they're absent from MGM's megabox. Merely take my discussion 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 every bit positive, with an average rating of 5.60/x. The site'south critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more than understated Bail make Never Say Never Once more 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 amongst 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 generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the flick three of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was maybe wise to call information technology quits the first fourth dimension round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Once again a score of five out of 10, claiming that the movie "is more miss than hit".[71] The review also thought that the moving picture was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and non enough moments of Bond being Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Amusement Weekly rated Never Say Never Over again every bit the ninth all-time Bond pic to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the film "is successful only as a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even past his prime number, Connery proves that nobody does it improve".[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 peradventure 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 meliorate than this fatigued-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "information technology was keen to run into Sean Connery render equally James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He too thought the supporting cast was skillful, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... i of the most circuitous of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary too wrote that the "movie is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be ane of the all-time Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't piece of work because viewers normally tin't tell the hero and villain apart 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 as James Bail, with McClory announcing the next planned film S.P.E.C.T.R.E in a February 1984 consequence of Screen International.[75] When Connery appear that he would non reprise his part as Bond in another moving picture produced past Schwartzman three weeks earlier the borderline to purchase the rights to another film for $five million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make some other 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 Advertising, but the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory's rights for an undisclosed amount,[iv] and subsequently announced that information technology intended to brand a serial of Bail films, as the company also held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This movement prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to give up all claims on Bond; McClory notwithstanding claimed he would proceed with another Bail film,[79] and continued his case against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's adjust.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'due south conquering of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, not-satirical film adaptation of that novel the same twelvemonth with Daniel Craig every bit James Bond. Ultimately, McClory'southward heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the pic Spectre.

On four December 1997, MGM announced that the company had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Once more from Schwartzman'southward 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 as well [edit]

  • Outline of James Bail

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