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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 movie theater 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 past 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 past Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
company

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

Release dates
  • vii October 1983 (1983-x-07) (U.South.)
  • 15 December 1983 (1983-12-fifteen) (U.Grand.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United states of america
Language English
Upkeep $36 1000000
Box office $160 one thousand thousand[2]

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy moving picture directed by Irvin Kershner. The pic is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 film of the same name. Never Say Never Over again was non produced past Eon Productions, but by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The film 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 later Diamonds Are Forever. The movie's title is a reference to Connery's reported annunciation in 1971 that he would "never" play that part again. As Connery was 52 at the fourth dimension of filming, although most three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

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

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, 1000, orders Bond to a health clinic outside London to get dorsum 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 later Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a machine which scans his heart. Bail is seen by Blush, who sends an assassinator, Lippe, to kill him in the dispensary gym, but Bail manages to kill Lippe.

Chroma and her accuse, a heroin-addicted United States Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal arrangement run past Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an performance on his right eye to make it match the retinal pattern of the Usa President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American military base in England. While doing and then, he replaces the dummy warheads of 2 AGM-86B cruise missiles with alive nuclear warheads; SPECTRE and so steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Blush murders Petachi past causing his car to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE's tracks.

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

Bond is informed past Nigel Minor-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo's yacht is at present heading for Nice, French republic. There, Bail joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a health and beauty centre where he poses 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 clemency event, Largo and Bail play a iii-D video game called Domination; the losing histrion of each turn receives a series of electric 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 brother had been killed on Largo's orders. Bail returns to his villa to observe Nicole killed past Blush. Later a vehicle hunt on his Q-branch motorbike, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is eventually captured by 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-branch-effect fountain pen gun to kill 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 brand Largo jealous past kissing Domino in front of a two-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bail and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations in North Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bail afterwards escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.South. Navy submarine. After the first warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known equally the Tears of Allah, beneath a desert oasis on the Ethiopian declension. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the undercover facility and a gun battle erupts betwixt Leiter's 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 brother'southward death. Bond then 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 equally James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number 1, SPECTRE's senior-about agent. He is based on the graphic symbol Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera as Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt down and kill Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi, sister of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the film.
  • Bernie Casey every bit Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 department Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bail.
  • Edward Play a trick on equally "M", Bond'southward superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, Thou's secretarial assistant.
  • Rowan Atkinson every bit Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Part representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahamas, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach every bit Lippe, a SPECTRE assassinator who tries to kill Bail at the clinic.
  • Anthony Precipitous equally Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 department.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Helm Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi'south brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Once more 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 chosen Longitude 78 West,[4] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a skilful idea lie idle",[five] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[six] McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for alienation of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it afterward made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and so not brand any further version of the novel for a flow 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 production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought author Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[9] A lawsuit with Eon Productions concluded in a ruling that McClory owned the sole rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld, forcing Eon to remove them from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).[10] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle earlier taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Island as staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[10] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based merely on the novel Thunderball, and once again the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the terminate of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bail of the Secret Service,[8] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal problems that however surrounded the project[10] [3] he decided confronting using Deighton'due south script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in club to avert another lawsuit from Danjaq and subsequently McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to 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; even so, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon'southward Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the projection after Irvin Kershner was hired as manager and Schwartzman began cut out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the upkeep.[ten] Connery and then hired British tv set 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 existence theirs. This was because of a restriction by the Writers Guild of America.[14] Clement and La Frenais connected rewriting during the production, often altering it from day to day.[x]

The film underwent 1 final change in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond over again.[nine] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Once again, referring to her husband's vow[15] and the producers best-selling her contribution by list on the end credits "Title Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A terminal effort by Fleming's trustees to block the film was fabricated in the Loftier 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 go along.[sixteen]

Cast and coiffure [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had start planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[17] although the project came to nothing because of the legal 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 function of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough every bit director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Underground Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bail film, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the office, every bit he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I commencement worked on the script with Len I had no thought of really beingness in the picture show."[xx] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 million ($8 meg in 2022 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percentage of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bond'southward advancing years – playing on Connery existence 52 at the time of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the motion-picture show, such equally the Shrubland'southward porter referring to Bond's car ("They don't make them similar that anymore"), the new Grand having no use for the 00 department 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 fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Sea.[10] Connery'southward casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help get in shape for the production.[10]

For the main villain in the picture show, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the pb of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian pic Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow equally Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he nonetheless retained his Eon-originated white cat in the motion picture.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover daughter Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the name coming from i 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 chip of black widow and a fiddling bit of praying mantis."[x] Carrera'due south functioning as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met up-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor Business firm Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed after Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino function. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that as the Leiter office was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might brand him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would subsequently parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson'south character was added by Clement and La Frenais after the production had already started in social club to provide the film with a comic relief.[10] Edward Fox was cast as M in order to portray the grapheme as a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry building's budget cuts to government services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the motion picture, but after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Erstwhile Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Hole-and-corner Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the film merely 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 Back was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 picture Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including get-go banana managing director David Tomblin, managing director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit director Mickey Moore and production designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[24] [31]

Filming [edit]

A large, sleek ship is moored at a quayside

The Kingdom 5KR which acted equally Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer

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

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

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts teacher for this film, broke Connery'southward wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Evidence 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'southward and Schwartzman's first selection to compose the score later existence impressed with his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the fourth dimension, wound up unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman after 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 nearly 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 Mind"[40] — 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 vocal, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but the song — an unsolicited submission — was passed over, given Legrand's contractual obligations with the music.[42]

Legal substitutions [edit]

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

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bond films were non present in Never Say Never Once again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen total of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no attempt was made to supply some other melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[43] instead the picture opens with the credits run over the height of the opening sequence of Bail on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on seven Oct 1983 in 1,550 theatres grossing an October record $10,958,157 over the four-solar day Columbus Mean solar day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the all-time opening record of any James Bond film" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 'south $8.9 meg from June that year. The film had its United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland premiere at the Warner Westward End movie theatre in Leicester Square on 14 December 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Once more grossed $160 1000000,[45] which was a solid render on the budget of $36 1000000.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.five million.[46] [47] Information technology was the offset James Bail film to exist officially released in the Soviet Union, premiering in the summertime 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 visitor has released the picture on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Gimmicky reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Again was broadly welcomed and praised by the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Again was "one of the better Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is well-baked and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie too thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more highly-seasoned than ever as the stylish 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 still 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 as Maximillian Largo "very nigh brand it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed upward Never Say Never Once again saying "The activeness'southward good, the photography first-class, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played past a homo with the correct stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bail, saying the film contains "the best Bond in the business organisation",[56] only nevertheless did non find Never Say Never Again whatever more than enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm's main event 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 effort to make character as important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch but not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted motion picture ends upwardly making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "similar an hour-drinking glass full of damp sand, the moving picture moves with increasing slowness as it approaches a dislocated climax in the Farsi Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early on part of the film 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 magazine praised the film and its bandage. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer'due south character was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Chroma, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bond's career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the render of Connery, observing "it is good to run across Connery's grave stylishness in this role over again. It makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the production of genuine worldliness (and world weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, saying she idea that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more than humor and character than the Bond films commonly provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also idea highly of Connery in the role, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to suit an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the bill."[lx] Writing in The Washington Postal service, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Once again is "one of the all-time James Bond chance thrillers always made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and achieved."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond picture e'er made, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the surface area of inventive and clever graphic symbol delineation".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott, likewise praised the film, saying that Never Say Never Again "may be the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a first-charge per unit director."[62] According to Scott, the managing director, with high-quality back up cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the motion picture 3½ out of four stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bail plot", was different from other Bond films: "For i thing, there'due south more of a human being element in the picture, and information technology comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "at that place was never a Beatles reunion ... only here, by God, is Sean Connery every bit Sir James Bail. Good work, 007."[63] Cistron Siskel of The Chicago Tribune besides gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the movie was "one of the best 007 adventures ever fabricated".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Over again is not an Eon-produced film, it has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967'due south Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again "exist exterior the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just as they're absent from MGM's megabox. Just take my word for it; they're both pretty atrocious".[66] Retrospective reviews of the picture remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged 70% of the reviews as positive, with an average rating of 5.60/10. The site's disquisitional consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bond make Never Say Never Once 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 film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the motion picture 3 of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was peradventure wise to call it quits the kickoff time circular".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of v out of 10, claiming that the film "is more miss than hitting".[71] The review also idea that the film was "marred with besides many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bond beingness Bail".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Amusement Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the ninth best Bail flick to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the film "is successful merely equally a portrait of an over-the-colina superhero." He admitted that "even by his prime, Connery proves that nobody does information technology better".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Once 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 "information technology was great to come across Sean Connery return every bit James Bond later a dozen years".[74] He as well thought the supporting cast was good, proverb that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the most circuitous of Bond'due south foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary as well wrote that the "film is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be i of the best Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When volition filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't piece of work because viewers usually can't tell the hero and villain apart and they know doubles are existence used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Again was intended to kickoff a series of Bond films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bail, with McClory announcing the next planned picture show S.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 every bit Bond in another film produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the deadline to purchase the rights to some other film for $5 million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to brand some other pic without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to make another adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 AD, but the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures caused McClory's rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and subsequently appear that it intended to make a series of Bond films, as the company as well held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This movement prompted a circular of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to surrender all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would proceed with some other Bail film,[79] and connected his case confronting MGM and Danjaq;[lxxx] On 27 Baronial 2001 the court rejected McClory's adapt.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical picture adaptation of that novel the same year with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the film Spectre.

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

Encounter also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bail

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