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1983 James Bond film directed by Irvin Kershner

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

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

Production
company

Taliafilm
Distributed by
  • Warner Bros. (U.Due south.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.Thou.)[1]

Release dates
  • 7 October 1983 (1983-ten-07) (U.Due south.)
  • 15 December 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.K.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • Us
Language English
Budget $36 million
Box role $160 million[two]

Never Say Never Over again is a 1983 spy movie directed by Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball past Ian Fleming, which in plough was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 flick of the same name. Never Say Never Again was not produced by Eon Productions, but by Jack Schwartzman'southward 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 battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the office of Bond for the seventh and final time, marker his return to the grapheme 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The pic'due south title is a reference to Connery's reported annunciation in 1971 that he would "never" play that role again. Equally Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nearly three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bail who is brought dorsum into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Espana, 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 every bit more than emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the day. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the same twelvemonth.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 amanuensis James Bond, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, M, orders Bond to a wellness clinic outside London to become 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'due south confront is bandaged and later on Blush finishes her beating, Bail sees the patient using a machine which scans his center. Bond is seen by Blush, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to impale him in the clinic gym, simply Bond manages to kill Lippe.

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

Strange Secretarial assistant Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant K to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bond follows a atomic number 82 to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot'due south sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'south top amanuensis.

Bail is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo's yacht is now heading for Nice, France. At that place, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA analogue and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a wellness and beauty eye where he poses every bit an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an event at a casino that evening. At the charity event, Largo and Bail play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing role player of each turn receives a series of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. Later on losing a few games, Bond ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her brother had been killed on Largo's orders. Bond returns to his villa to find Nicole killed by Blush. Afterward a vehicle hunt on his Q-branch motorcycle, Bond finds himself in an deadfall 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, and then uses his Q-branch-event fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter attempt to board Largo'southward motor yacht, the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to brand Largo jealous by kissing Domino in front of a 2-manner mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base in Northward Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her expose by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond after escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bail reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. After the first warhead is institute and defused in Washington, D.C., they runway Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian declension. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the clandestine facility and a gun boxing erupts betwixt Leiter's squad and Largo's men in the temple. In the defoliation, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. But every bit Largo tries to utilise a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother's death. Bond and so defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bail retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret agent.

Bandage [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number i, SPECTRE'southward senior-nigh agent. He is based on the character Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow equally Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the caput of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera every bit Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to chase down and impale Bail. 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 picture.
  • Bernie Casey every bit Felix Leiter, Bond'due south CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who problems specialised equipment to Bail.
  • Edward Fox every bit "M", Bail'south superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, M's secretarial assistant.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Function representative in the Commonwealth of the bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahamas, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek equally Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach equally Lippe, a SPECTRE assassinator who tries to kill Bond at the dispensary.
  • Anthony Precipitous as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretarial assistant who orders K to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the dispensary.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF airplane 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.[three] Fleming had worked with contained producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond flick, to be chosen Longitude 78 West,[4] which was subsequently abased because of the costs involved.[five] Fleming, "ever reluctant to let a proficient thought lie idle",[v] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did non credit either McClory or Whittingham;[6] McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[vii] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it after fabricated a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and and so non make whatsoever 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 over again started working on a projection to bring a Thunderball adaptation to product and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[9] A lawsuit with Eon Productions 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 downward airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Island as staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers nether 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 movie based only on the novel Thunderball, and one time once more the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Undercover Service,[8] simply when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the project[10] [3] he decided against using Deighton'south script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avoid some other lawsuit from Danjaq and afterward McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on lath scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to brand the screenplay "somewhere in the middle" between his campier projects such every bit Batman and his more serious projects such as Three Days of the Condor.[10] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; withal, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon'south Albert R. Broccoli.[xiii] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project later on Irvin Kershner was hired as director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to relieve on the upkeep.[10] Connery so 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 concluding shooting script being theirs. This was because of a restriction by the Writers Order of America.[14] Clement and La Frenais connected rewriting during the production, ofttimes altering it from day to day.[10]

The movie underwent one final change in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[9] Connery'due south married woman, Micheline, suggested the championship Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband'south vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the finish credits "Title Never Say Never Over again by Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming's trustees to block the motion picture was made in the High Court in London in the jump of 1983, simply this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[16]

Cast and coiffure [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had kickoff planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the role of Bond,[17] although the projection came to zilch because of the legal problems involved. When the Warhead projection was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the merchandise press, including Orson Welles for the function of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough equally director.[ix]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Hole-and-corner Service was being used and Connery was in the frame over again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bond motion-picture show, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal problems once more causing the project to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, every bit he stated in an interview in the Sunday Limited: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no idea of actually being in the film."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 million ($viii million in 2020 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percentage of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple contradistinct 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 as the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's car ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new M having no utilize for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond'south age even farther, 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's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to assistance get in shape for the product.[ten]

For the main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Laurels-winning Hungarian picture show Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he however retained his Eon-originated white cat in the film.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[fourteen] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a lilliputian flake of black widow and a little bit of praying mantis."[x] Carrera's performance every bit Fatima Chroma earned her a Golden Earth Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her part in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's married woman, had met up-and-coming extra Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor Firm Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed after Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might brand him more than memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later on parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson's character was added by Clement and La Frenais later on the product had already started in order to provide the picture with a comic relief.[ten] Edward Trick was cast as Chiliad 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 regime services.[ten]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the moving-picture show, but later on meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[x] Quondam Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to straight the picture but declined due to his previous work with Eon.[xxx] 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 and so hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 moving-picture show Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant managing director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit managing director Mickey Moore and production designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[24] [31]

Filming [edit]

A large, sleek ship is moored at a quayside

The Kingdom 5KR which acted as Largo'south ship, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[xiv] before moving to Nassau, the Commonwealth of the bahamas in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was too one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo'south Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, 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 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] [10] Most of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although in that location 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 assistant manager David Tomblin.[32] Manager Irvin Kershner was disquisitional of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a skillful businessman, "he didn't have the feel of a picture producer".[32] After the production ran out of coin, Schwartzman had to fund farther product out of his own pocket and later on admitted he had underestimated the amount the picture show would price to make.[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 every bit saying that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this film, broke Connery's wrist while grooming. On an episode of The This night Show with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did non know his wrist was broken until over a decade afterwards.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner'south and Schwartzman's first choice to compose the score later on being impressed with his work on Star Trek Ii: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for almost of the time, wound up unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman later claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bond composer John Barry was invited, but declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Once again was written by Michel Legrand, who equanimous a score similar to his work as a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised every bit "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the near disappointing feature of the picture show".[24] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Once again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the University Honor-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"[40] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

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

Legal substitutions [edit]

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

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bail films were not nowadays 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 use, although no effort was fabricated to supply another melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bail on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Once more opened on 7 October 1983 in 1,550 theatres grossing an Oct tape $10,958,157 over the iv-24-hour interval Columbus 24-hour interval weekend[2] which was reported to be "the all-time opening record of any James Bond moving-picture show" up to that signal[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.9 one thousand thousand from June that yr. The film had its UK premiere at the Warner West End picture palace in Leicester Square on 14 Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 million.[45] The pic ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 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 Once again on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[50] Later Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, beneath), the company has released the film on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Gimmicky reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Again was broadly welcomed and praised past the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Once more was "1 of the meliorate Bonds",[53] finding the motion picture "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie also thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more appealing than always as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times likewise full-bodied on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a day older or thicker, and still outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sexual activity and violence on the way".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer equally Maximillian Largo "very nigh make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Once again saying "The action'south good, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the existent clincher is the fact that Bond is once more than played past a human with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bail, saying the pic contains "the all-time Bail in the business",[56] but nevertheless did non discover Never Say Never Over again whatsoever more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Honey".[56] Malcolm's main outcome with the film was that he had a "feeling that a abiding struggle was going on between a desire to brand a huge box-part success and the effort to make character as of import as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch but not surpassing information technology".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends up making no contribution of its own and inviting dissentious comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "similar an hour-glass full of damp sand, the moving-picture show 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 on part of the film was handled "with wit and style",[58] although he went on to say that the managing director was "hamstrung past Lorenzo Semple'south script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time mag praised the flick and its bandage. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer'south graphic symbol was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bond'south career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is good to meet Connery's grave stylishness in this role once again. It makes Bail's cynicism and opportunism seem the product 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 thought that Never Say Never Once more "has noticeably more than sense of humor and grapheme than the Bond films unremarkably provide. Information technology has a marvelous villain in Largo."[lx] Maslin also idea highly of Connery in the role, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to adapt an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the bill."[sixty] Writing in The Washington Mail service, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Over again is "one of the best James Bond adventure thrillers ever made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is probable to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond picture ever made, because it conspicuously surpasses whatever predecessors in the area of inventive and clever graphic symbol delineation".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Postal service, Jay Scott, also praised the film, saying that Never Say Never Over again "may exist the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a first-rate 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 three½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was dissimilar from other Bond films: "For 1 matter, there'south more of a human element in the motion picture, and information technology comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add together, "in that location was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bail. Good work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the film 3½ out of four stars, writing that the film was "one of the all-time 007 adventures always made".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is non an Eon-produced pic, 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 outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just as they're absent from MGM's megabox. But take my give-and-take for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the picture show remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged seventy% of the reviews every bit positive, with an average rating of 5.sixty/ten. The site's critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more than understated Bond make Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is nonetheless more than positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Once more 16th among all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the moving-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 3 of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to telephone call it quits the first time round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of v out of 10, claiming that the moving picture "is more than miss than hit".[71] The review also thought that the pic was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bond being Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again equally the ninth best Bond flick to that point, subsequently 17 films had been released. Sauter idea the moving picture "is successful only as a portrait of an over-the-loma superhero." He admitted that "fifty-fifty past his prime, Connery proves that nobody does information technology better".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a movie which has "a hokey, jokey experience, [it] is possibly the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "information technology's a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the motion-picture show makers couldn't offering him something better than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was great to run across Sean Connery return equally James Bond afterwards a dozen years".[74] He also idea the supporting cast was skillful, maxim that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the virtually complex of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary also wrote that the "flick is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be 1 of the best Bail films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't work because viewers usually can'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 starting time a series of Bond films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery every bit James Bond, with McClory announcing the next planned film Due south.P.East.C.T.R.Due east in a February 1984 issue of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would non reprise his office as Bail in some other film produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the deadline to buy the rights to another flick for $5 one thousand thousand, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another movie without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to brand some other adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 AD, just the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures caused McClory'southward rights for an undisclosed amount,[iv] and subsequently announced that information technology intended to make a series of Bail films, as the visitor too held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This move prompted a circular of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to give up all claims on Bail; McClory still claimed he would proceed with another Bond pic,[79] and continued his example confronting MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory'south suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'due south conquering of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical moving picture adaptation of that novel the same twelvemonth with Daniel Craig as James Bail. 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 Dec 1997, MGM announced that the visitor had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Again from Schwartzman'south company Taliafilm.[82] [83] The company has since handled the release of both the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the picture.[84] [52]

Come across also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bail

References [edit]

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