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1983 James Bond film 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 picture palace poster past 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 by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Product
company

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

Release dates
  • 7 October 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.Southward.)
  • 15 December 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.K.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • U.s.
Language English
Upkeep $36 million
Box office $160 1000000[2]

Never Say Never Once again is a 1983 spy film directed by Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in plow was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 film of the same proper name. Never Say Never Once again was not produced by Eon Productions, merely by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The picture was executive produced past Kevin McClory, ane 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 role of Bond for the seventh and last time, marking his return to the graphic symbol 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The motion picture's title is a reference to Connery's reported announcement in 1971 that he would "never" play that function once again. Equally Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although near 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, Spain, the Commonwealth of the bahamas and Elstree Studios in the U.k..

Never Say Never Again was released past Warner Bros. on 7 October 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the acting of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise every bit more emotionally resonant than the typical Bail 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 before the same year.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, One thousand, orders Bond to a health dispensary exterior London to get dorsum into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Chroma giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face is bandaged and after Chroma finishes her beating, Bail sees the patient using a automobile which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Chroma, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, but Bond manages to impale Lippe.

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

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

Bail is informed by Nigel Small-scale-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo's yacht is now heading for Dainty, France. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a wellness and dazzler centre where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an upshot at a casino that evening. At the charity event, Largo and Bond 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. Subsequently losing a few games, Bail ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her brother had been killed on Largo'south orders. Bail returns to his villa to find Nicole killed past Blush. After a vehicle chase on his Q-co-operative motorbike, Bail finds himself in an ambush and is eventually captured past Blush. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bond to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-effect fountain pen gun to impale Chroma with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter attempt to board Largo's 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 end of a two-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bail and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations in Due north Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond after escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. After the starting time warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they runway Largo to a location known equally the Tears of Allah, beneath a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun boxing erupts between Leiter's team and Largo'southward men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Simply 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's death. Bond and so defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahama islands with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number 1, SPECTRE's senior-almost agent. He is based on the character 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 inverse to Petrescu for the Italian release of the pic.
  • Bernie Casey as Felix Leiter, Bail's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen equally "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who bug specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox as "M", Bond'due south superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, 1000's secretarial assistant.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Pocket-size-Fawcett, Foreign Role representative in the Bahama islands.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahamas, whom Bail seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach as Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to impale Bond at the clinic.
  • Anthony Abrupt as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders Yard to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy every bit Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's blood brother.

Product [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early on 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[3] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond film, to be called Longitude 78 West,[4] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[five] Fleming, "always reluctant to permit a good idea lie idle",[v] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[half dozen] McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for alienation of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[iv] After Eon Productions started producing the Bail films, it subsequently fabricated a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, so non make whatsoever farther version of the novel for a menses of ten years post-obit 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 accommodation to production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[nine] A lawsuit with Eon Productions ended in a ruling that McClory owned the sole rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld, forcing Eon to remove them from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).[10] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Liberty Isle and Ellis Isle equally staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[ten] The script ran into difficulties later accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based simply on the novel Thunderball, and once once more the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the stop of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the proper name James Bond of the Secret Service,[8] just when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal problems that still surrounded the project[10] [3] he decided against using Deighton's script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in guild to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and later McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[xi] 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 middle" betwixt his campier projects such equally Batman and his more than serious projects such every bit Three Days of the Condor.[10] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; however, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project later on Irvin Kershner was hired as director and Schwartzman began cut out the "large numbers" from his script to save on the budget.[x] Connery then hired British television set writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[xi] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the last shooting script being theirs. This was considering of a restriction by the Writers Gild of America.[fourteen] Clement and La Frenais connected rewriting during the production, often altering it from day to twenty-four hours.[10]

The film underwent one terminal change in title: subsequently Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[9] Connery'south wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Once again, referring to her husband's vow[xv] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past listing on the finish credits "Championship Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A last attempt by Fleming'south trustees to block the film was made in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, simply this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Over again was permitted to keep.[16]

Cast and coiffure [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the motion-picture show 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 Grand and Richard Attenborough every bit managing director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bail of the Undercover Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once more, potentially going caput-to-head with the adjacent Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[18] Past 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the part, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually beingness in the film."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bail; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 million ($8 one thousand thousand in 2022 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's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[22] – and bookish Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of historic period and disillusionment in the film, such equally the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond'due south automobile ("They don't make them similar that anymore"), the new M having no apply for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bail's historic period fifty-fifty further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish angling 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 product.[x]

For the master villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian moving-picture show Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he still retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the picture.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy comprehend girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[fourteen] Carrera said she modeled her operation on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little fleck of black widow and a little bit of praying mantis."[10] Carrera's performance as Fatima Chroma earned her a Gilded Globe 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 upward-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed later on Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino office. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, maxim that as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might brand him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would afterward parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson'south grapheme was added by Cloudless and La Frenais after the production had already started in guild to provide the film with a comic relief.[ten] Edward Fob was cast as M in order to portray the character every bit a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal past Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry's budget cuts to authorities services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the motion picture, merely after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Undercover Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to directly the film merely declined due to his previous work with Eon.[thirty] Irvin Kershner, who had previously worked with Connery on A Fine Madness (1966), and had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was then hired. A number of the coiffure from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were as well appointed, including first assistant director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit manager Mickey Moore and product 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'due south ship, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Once again 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 ane of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo'southward Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo'due south 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 by Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[10] Principal 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 health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [10] Most of the filming was completed in the bound of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summertime of 1983.[12]

Production on the pic was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the product duties with banana manager David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, proverb that, while he was a expert businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer".[32] After the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would price to make.[35] There was tension on set between Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism behind the scenes and was on record as proverb that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse performance!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this pic, broke Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The This night Evidence 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 starting time choice to compose the score after being impressed with his work on Star Trek Ii: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the time, wound up unavailable co-ordinate to Kershner, though Schwartzman later claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bail composer John Barry was invited, merely declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Again was written past Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his piece of work as a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the almost disappointing feature of the film".[24] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Once more", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the Academy Award-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"[xl] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] afterwards 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, 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 not present in Never Say Never Once more for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen full of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly in that location was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no effort was made to supply some other melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed just not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Once more opened on 7 October 1983 in one,550 theatres grossing an October record $x,958,157 over the four-twenty-four hour period Columbus Day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the all-time opening tape of whatever James Bond movie" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $viii.9 million from June that year. The film had its United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland premiere at the Warner Due west Stop movie house in Leicester Square on xiv Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Once more grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 1000000.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 million.[46] [47] It was the first James Bond motion-picture show to be officially released in the Soviet Matrimony, premiering in the summertime of 1990 with a gala in Moscow.[48]

Warner Bros. released Never Say Never Once more on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[50] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, beneath), 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 Over again was broadly welcomed and praised by the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Limited, said that Never Say Never Again was "one of the better Bonds",[53] finding the moving picture "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie too idea that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if annihilation, is more than highly-seasoned than ever every bit the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times besides full-bodied on Connery, maxim that: "Connery ... is dorsum, looking hardly a day older or thicker, and withal outclassing every other exponent of the function, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sexual practice and violence on the way".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very nearly brand it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying "The activeness's good, the photography first-class, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is one time more than played by a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bond, maxim the film contains "the all-time Bond in the business organization",[56] but nevertheless did not discover Never Say Never Again any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very about to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Honey".[56] Malcolm's main issue with the film was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a want to make a huge box-part success and the try to make character every bit of import every bit stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – upwards to scratch but not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends up making no contribution of its ain and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an hour-glass full of damp sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness as it approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll idea the early role of the picture was handled "with wit and style",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple'southward script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Fourth dimension mag praised the film and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer's character was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bond'due south career".[59] Schickel'south highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "information technology is skilful to see Connery's grave stylishness in this office again. It makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and globe weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the motion picture, saying she thought that Never Say Never Over again "has noticeably more humor and grapheme than the Bond films normally provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[lx] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the part, observing that "in Never Say Never Once more, the formula is broadened to accommodate an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the beak."[60] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Over again is "ane of the all-time James Bail run a risk thrillers e'er made",[61] going on to say that "this picture show is likely to remain a cherished, savory case of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went farther, saying that "Never Say Never Once more is the all-time acted Bond picture ever made, because it conspicuously surpasses whatsoever predecessors in the expanse of inventive and clever graphic symbol delineation".[61]

The critic for The World and Mail, Jay Scott, as well praised the film, proverb that Never Say Never Once again "may be the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a beginning-rate manager."[62] According to Scott, the manager, with loftier-quality back up bandage, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the moving picture 3½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Once again, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was different from other Bond films: "For i thing, there'south more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "at that place was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Good work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune too gave the film iii½ out of four stars, writing that the film was "i of the best 007 adventures always fabricated".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Over again is non an Eon-produced picture show, 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 Over again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, merely as they're absent-minded from MGM's megabox. But take my word for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged lxx% of the reviews equally positive, with an average rating of 5.lx/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 brand Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is still more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Once more 16th among all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on fifteen critics, indicating more often than not favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the moving picture 3 of a possible 5 stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to call it quits the first fourth dimension round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of five out of ten, claiming that the film "is more than miss than hit".[71] The review also thought that the film was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bond existence Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Once more equally the ninth best Bond film to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the picture show "is successful only as a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even by his prime number, Connery proves that nobody does information technology amend".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Over again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a picture which has "a hokey, jokey experience, [information technology] is possibly the worst-written Bail script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the film makers couldn't offering him something ameliorate than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "information technology was great to see Sean Connery return as James Bond afterward a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting cast was good, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the most complex of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary also wrote that the "moving-picture show is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be 1 of the best Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When volition filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't work because viewers commonly can't tell the hero and villain autonomously and they know doubles are being used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Over again was intended to starting time a series of Bond films produced past Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bond, with McClory announcing the next planned film S.P.E.C.T.R.Eastward in a February 1984 effect of Screen International.[75] When Connery appear that he would non reprise his function as Bail in another picture show produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the deadline to purchase the rights to another film for $5 million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another film 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 acquired McClory's rights for an undisclosed corporeality,[4] and subsequently announced that it intended to make a series of Bond films, equally the company also held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This move prompted a circular of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to give up all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would continue with another Bond film,[79] and continued his case against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to brand a serious, not-satirical film adaptation of that novel the aforementioned year with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Ultimately, McClory'due south heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon serial in the movie Spectre.

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

Run into also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bail

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