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1983 James Bail picture show 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 cinema affiche 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 Trick
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
company

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

Release dates
  • vii October 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.S.)
  • xv December 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.Grand.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United kingdom
  • U.s.
Linguistic communication English
Upkeep $36 million
Box office $160 million[2]

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film directed past Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the 1961 James Bail 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 Once again was not produced by Eon Productions, but by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The film was executive produced past Kevin McClory, 1 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 Bail for the seventh and final time, marker his return to the character 12 years later on Diamonds Are Forever. The film's championship is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that part again. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although almost 3 years younger than incumbent Bail Roger Moore, the storyline features an crumbling Bail who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of ii nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included French republic, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the Britain.

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

Plot [edit]

Subsequently MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine grooming exercise, his superior, Chiliad, orders Bond to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While at that place, Bond 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 subsequently Blush finishes her chirapsia, Bail sees the patient using a auto which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Chroma, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, simply Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her charge, a heroin-addicted The states Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run past Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his right heart 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 so, he replaces the dummy warheads of two AGM-86B prowl missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE then 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'due south tracks.

Foreign Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant Thousand to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bond follows a pb to the Commonwealth of the bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot's sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE's peak agent.

Bond is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British Loftier Commission that Largo's yacht is at present heading for Squeamish, France. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a wellness and beauty centre where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an consequence at a casino that evening. At the charity result, Largo and Bail play a three-D video game chosen Domination; the losing player of each turn receives a series of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the corporeality wagered. Later losing a few games, Bond ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her blood brother had been killed on Largo's orders. Bond returns to his villa to find Nicole killed past Chroma. After a vehicle hunt on his Q-co-operative motorbike, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is eventually captured by Chroma. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bond to declare in writing that she is his "Number I" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter endeavor to board Largo'southward motor yacht, the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to make Largo jealous by kissing Domino in front of a two-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond 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 subsequently escapes from his prison house and rescues her.

Domino and Bail reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. After the offset warhead is establish and defused in Washington, D.C., they rail Largo to a location known every bit the Tears of Allah, beneath a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter's team and Largo's men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the 2d 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's expiry. Bond then defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Commonwealth of the bahamas with Domino, vowing never once more to be a hole-and-corner amanuensis.

Bandage [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bail, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number ane, SPECTRE'south senior-well-nigh amanuensis. He is based on the character Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera equally Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt downwards 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 as Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who problems specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox equally "K", Bond'southward superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, One thousand'due south secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson every bit Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Office representative in the Bahama islands.
  • Valerie Leon every bit Lady in Commonwealth of the 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 kill Bond at the dispensary.
  • Anthony Sharp every bit Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the dispensary.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy every bit Helm 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.[three] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond film, to exist called Longitude 78 West,[4] which was subsequently abandoned considering of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a skillful thought lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did non credit either McClory or Whittingham;[6] McClory and so took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] Subsequently Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, information technology subsequently fabricated a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and and then non make whatever further version of the novel for a period of ten years post-obit the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[8]

In the mid-1970s McClory over again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball accommodation 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 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).[ten] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Freedom 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 but on the novel Thunderball, and once again the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the stop of the 1970s developments were reported on the projection under the proper name James Bail of the Surreptitious Service,[8] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the project[10] [iii] he decided against using Deighton'south script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to piece of work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to 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.[ten] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; nonetheless, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the projection after Irvin Kershner was hired equally director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "large numbers" from his script to save on the upkeep.[ten] Connery then hired British boob tube writers Dick Cloudless and Ian La Frenais[11] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script being theirs. This was because of a brake by the Writers Guild of America.[xiv] Clement and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering it from day to day.[10]

The film underwent one final change in title: afterwards Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond once more.[9] Connery'due south wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Over again, referring to her married man's vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by list on the cease credits "Title Never Say Never Over again past Micheline Connery". A final effort by Fleming's trustees to cake the moving picture was made in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the courtroom and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[sixteen]

Bandage and crew [edit]

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

In 1978, the working championship James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once once again, potentially going head-to-caput with the next Eon Bail picture show, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal issues once more causing the project to founder,[nineteen] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the office, as he stated in an interview in the Sun Limited: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually existence in the film."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 million ($8 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 fourth dimension of filming[22] – and bookish Jeremy Black has pointed out that at that place are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland'south porter referring to Bail'due south motorcar ("They don't brand them like that anymore"), the new M having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond'southward age even further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish line-fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Sea.[ten] Connery's casting was formally appear in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help get in shape for the production.[10]

For the master villain in the motion picture, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian moving picture Mephisto.[24] Through the same road came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he however retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the flick.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected onetime model and Playboy comprehend daughter Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the proper noun 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 picayune bit of black widow and a trivial bit of praying mantis."[10] Carrera'southward performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Aureate Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Extra,[27] which she lost to Cher for her part in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean'southward wife, had met upwards-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed after Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the part of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, proverb that every bit the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bail in his role of Johnny English language in 2003.[29] Atkinson'south graphic symbol was added past Clement and La Frenais later on the product had already started in guild to provide the flick with a comic relief.[10] Edward Fox was cast as K in order to portray the character as a immature technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry'south upkeep cuts to government services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to straight the film, but subsequently meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[x] Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to straight the movie but declined due to his previous work with Eon.[30] 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 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant managing director David Tomblin, 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 as Largo'due south send, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Once more began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[14] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November[12] where filming took identify at Clifton Pier, which was as well one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was really historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed past the yacht Kingdom 5KR, then owned past Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and called the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed past Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[ten] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree as well housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took iii months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [ten] Most of the filming was completed in the leap of 1983, although at that place was some boosted shooting during the summertime of 1983.[12]

Production on the movie was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[32] Manager Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, maxim that, while he was a skilful 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 flick would price to make.[35] At that place was tension on ready 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 tape every bit proverb 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 training. On an episode of The Tonight Bear witness with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was broken until over a decade afterward.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman'south get-go choice to compose the score after being impressed with his work on Star Expedition Ii: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for about of the fourth dimension, wound up unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman later 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 again was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score like to his work as a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the near disappointing characteristic of the film".[24] Legrand also wrote the primary theme "Never Say Never Once more", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the Academy Honour-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 too recorded a potential theme song, written past Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but 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 Bond films were not present in Never Say Never Once more for legal reasons. These included the gun butt 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 another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed just not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the tiptop 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 1,550 theatres grossing an Oct record $ten,958,157 over the 4-day Columbus Twenty-four hours weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening tape of any James Bond motion-picture show" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $viii.9 million from June that year. The moving-picture show had its U.k. premiere at the Warner West End cinema in Leicester Foursquare on 14 Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid render on the budget of $36 million.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 million.[46] [47] Information technology was the first James Bond picture show to exist officially released in the Soviet Matrimony, premiering in the summer of 1990 with a gala in Moscow.[48]

Warner Bros. released Never Say Never Again on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[l] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (come across Legacy, below), the company has released the film on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Contemporary reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Again was broadly welcomed and praised by the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Limited, said that Never Say Never Again was "one of the better Bonds",[53] finding the 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 anything, is more appealing than ever equally the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times likewise concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking inappreciably a day older or thicker, and still outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex and violence on the mode".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer every bit Maximillian Largo "very near brand it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Over again saying "The action's practiced, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the existent clincher is the fact that Bond is once more than played by a human being with the correct stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to exist a fan of Connery'south Bond, proverb the film contains "the best Bond in the business concern",[56] just yet did not find Never Say Never Once more any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm'southward main issue with the moving picture was that he had a "feeling that a abiding struggle was going on between a desire to brand a huge box-office success and the effort to brand character every bit important every bit stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch only 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 "like an hr-glass full of damp sand, the picture show moves with increasing slowness as it approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll idea the early part of the film was handled "with wit and mode",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple'south script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the film and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer's grapheme was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who take slithered through Bail'southward career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is good to see Connery's grave stylishness in this role 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 humor and character than the Bail films commonly provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the part, observing that "in Never Say Never Once more, the formula is broadened to arrange an older, seasoned homo of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the neb."[sixty] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Again is "one of the all-time James Bond hazard thrillers e'er fabricated",[61] going on to say that "this picture show is probable to remain a cherished, savory instance of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Over again is the best acted Bail picture ever made, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the expanse of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott, also praised the film, maxim that Never Say Never Again "may exist the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a first-rate director."[62] Co-ordinate to Scott, the director, with high-quality support cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the flick iii½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bail plot", was different from other Bail films: "For 1 thing, there'southward more than of a man chemical element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, equally Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, by God, is Sean Connery equally Sir James Bond. Good work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the moving picture three½ out of 4 stars, writing that the film 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 person sexist fantasy, where women can exist merely femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Over again is non an Eon-produced motion-picture show, it has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967'south Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this listing, simply as they're absent from MGM's megabox. Simply take my discussion for it; they're both pretty awful".[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'south disquisitional consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the render of both Sean Connery and a more than understated Bail brand Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is even so more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Once more 16th amongst all Bail films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the moving picture has a weighted boilerplate score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film three of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to telephone call it quits the get-go time circular".[seventy] IGN gave Never Say Never Over again a score of v out of 10, claiming that the pic "is more miss than striking".[71] The review also thought that the film was "marred with also 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 all-time Bond movie to that signal, subsequently 17 films had been released. Sauter idea the moving picture "is successful simply as a portrait of an over-the-loma superhero." He admitted that "even past his prime, Connery proves that nobody does it 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 "it was great to run into Sean Connery return as James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting bandage was good, proverb that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... ane of the most complex of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary besides wrote that the "film is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be one of the best Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't work because viewers usually tin can't tell the hero and villain apart and they know doubles are being used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Over again was intended to outset a series of Bail films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bond, with McClory announcing the side by side planned film Southward.P.East.C.T.R.E in a Feb 1984 issue of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his role as Bail in another motion-picture show produced by Schwartzman 3 weeks before the deadline to purchase the rights to some other film for $5 1000000, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make some other film without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to make some other adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 Advertising, merely the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory's rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and later announced that it intended to make a serial 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 Bail; McClory still claimed he would proceed with another Bond film,[79] and continued his example against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's conquering of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, not-satirical film accommodation of that novel the same yr with Daniel Craig equally James Bond. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the picture Spectre.

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

Run across also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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