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1983 James Bail film directed past 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 cinema poster by Renato Casaro
Directed past Irvin Kershner
Screenplay past Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Story by
  • Kevin McClory
  • Jack Whittingham
  • Ian Fleming
Based on Thunderball
by Ian Fleming
Produced by Jack Schwartzman
Starring
  • Sean Connery
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Max von Sydow
  • Barbara Carrera
  • Kim Basinger
  • Bernie Casey
  • Alec McCowen
  • Edward Fox
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music past Michel Legrand

Product
visitor

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

Release dates
  • vii Oct 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.S.)
  • 15 December 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.K.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • U.s.a.
Linguistic communication English language
Budget $36 million
Box office $160 1000000[two]

Never Say Never 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 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 Again was non produced by Eon Productions, merely by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The film was executive produced by Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory retained the filming rights of the novel post-obit a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the role of Bond for the seventh and final time, marking his return to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The moving picture's title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that part once again. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although most three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of 2 nuclear weapons past SPECTRE. Filming locations included French republic, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

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

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bail, 007, fails a routine preparation exercise, his superior, M, orders Bond to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic chirapsia to a patient in a nearby room. The homo's face is bandaged and later on Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a auto which scans his eye. Bail is seen by Blush, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, but Bail manages to kill Lippe.

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

Foreign Secretarial assistant Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 department, and Bond is tasked with tracking downwardly the missing weapons. Bond follows a lead to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot'south sis, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'southward pinnacle amanuensis.

Bond is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Committee that Largo'southward yacht is now heading for Nice, France. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bail 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 event at a casino that evening. At the charity outcome, Largo and Bond play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing role player of each plough receives a serial of electrical shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. Afterwards 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 detect Nicole killed by Blush. After a vehicle hunt on his Q-branch motorbike, Bond finds himself in an deadfall and is eventually captured by Chroma. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bail to declare in writing that she is his "Number Ane" sexual partner. Bail distracts her with promises, and so uses his Q-co-operative-issue fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

Bail and Leiter attempt to lath Largo'due south motor yacht, the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to make Largo jealous past kissing Domino in front end of a two-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo'south base of operations in North Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her expose 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 first warhead is establish and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known equally the Tears of Allah, beneath a desert oasis on the Ethiopian declension. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the 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 2nd warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Just equally 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 then defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never over again to be a surreptitious agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer every bit Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number 1, SPECTRE's senior-well-nigh agent. He is based on the grapheme Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the caput of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera as Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt down and impale Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger equally Domino Petachi, sister of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the film.
  • Bernie Casey as Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen every bit "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 department Quartermaster who problems specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox as "M", Bond's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, Grand's secretarial assistant.
  • Rowan Atkinson equally Nigel Pocket-sized-Fawcett, Foreign Office representative in the Commonwealth of the bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahama islands, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach equally Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to kill Bail at the clinic.
  • Anthony Abrupt equally Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's blood brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Once again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[iii] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond film, to be called Longitude 78 West,[iv] which was subsequently abased considering of the costs involved.[five] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a good thought lie idle",[five] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[6] McClory then took Fleming to the Loftier Courtroom in London for breach of copyright[vii] and the affair was settled in 1963.[4] After Eon Productions started producing the Bail films, information technology later made a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and and so not brand any further version of the novel for a menstruation of x years post-obit the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[8]

In the mid-1970s McClory once again started working on a projection to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to piece of work on a script.[9] A lawsuit with Eon Productions concluded in a ruling that McClory owned the sole rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld, forcing Eon to remove them from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).[10] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Liberty Isle and Ellis Island every bit 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 after accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the projection had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based but on the novel Thunderball, and once over again the projection was deferred.[eight]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the projection under the name James Bail of the Secret Service,[8] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the project[10] [iii] he decided against using Deighton's script. The projection returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the 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" betwixt 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 piece of work on the script; still, 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 "big numbers" from his script to save on the budget.[10] Connery then 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 final shooting script being theirs. This was considering of a brake by the Writers Guild of America.[fourteen] Clement and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, ofttimes altering it from day to mean solar day.[x]

The film underwent one final modify in championship: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[9] Connery'due south wife, Micheline, suggested the championship Never Say Never Once more, referring to her husband's vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by list on the finish credits "Title Never Say Never Over again by Micheline Connery". A last endeavor by Fleming'south trustees to block the film was made in the High Courtroom in London in the spring of 1983, merely this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Over again was permitted to proceed.[16]

Cast and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had get-go planned the pic in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the role of Bond,[17] although the project came to nothing because of the legal problems involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the tardily 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the merchandise press, including Orson Welles for the office of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough equally manager.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Surreptitious Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once more, potentially going head-to-head with the adjacent Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[18] Past 1980, with legal problems again causing the projection to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I get-go worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually being in the flick."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 1000000 ($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 altered the script to include several references to Bond's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that in that location are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, 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's historic period even further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Sea.[10] Connery's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help get in shape for the production.[x]

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

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the moving picture, simply after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] One-time Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to directly the film 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 accomplished success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was so hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 picture Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including offset assistant managing director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, 2d 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 transport, 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 Bahamas in mid-Nov[12] where filming took identify at Clifton Pier, which was too i of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, then owned by Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and chosen 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 as well housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [x] Nearly of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although in that location was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Production on the film was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a good businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer".[32] After the product ran out of coin, 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 tape every bit maxim that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse performance!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts teacher for this pic, broke Connery'due south wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was broken until over a decade subsequently.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman'southward commencement choice to etch the score after being impressed with his piece of work on Star Expedition 2: 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 Bond composer John Barry was invited, but declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Again was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his work as a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the virtually disappointing feature of the moving picture".[24] Legrand besides wrote the master theme "Never Say Never Again", 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"[twoscore] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the vocal, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme song, written past 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 nowadays in Never Say Never Again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen full of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bond Theme" to apply, although no effort was made to supply another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed only not used;[43] instead the moving picture 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 1,550 theatres grossing an October tape $x,958,157 over the four-twenty-four hours Columbus Day weekend[ii] which was reported to be "the all-time opening record of any James Bail film" upwardly to that signal[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.9 million from June that twelvemonth. The motion picture had its UK premiere at the Warner West End cinema in Leicester Foursquare on fourteen Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the upkeep of $36 million.[45] The motion-picture show ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 meg.[46] [47] It was the offset James Bond film to exist 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.[l] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (run into Legacy, beneath), the visitor has released the picture show on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Contemporary reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Again was broadly welcomed and praised by the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Once again was "one of the better Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie too thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more appealing than ever as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a mean solar day older or thicker, and withal outclassing every other exponent of the function, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex activity and violence on the way".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer equally Maximillian Largo "very nearly make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Fourth dimension Out summed up Never Say Never Once again maxim "The action'due south good, 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 right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to exist a fan of Connery'south Bail, saying the pic contains "the best Bond in the business",[56] but nevertheless did not find Never Say Never 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 Dear".[56] Malcolm's master upshot with the moving-picture show was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-office success and the effort to brand graphic symbol as of import as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the aforementioned – up to scratch but not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted motion-picture show ends upward making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French ended that "like an hour-drinking glass full of damp sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness as information technology approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

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

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, maxim she idea that Never Say Never Once more "has noticeably more than humor and character than the Bond films commonly provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[threescore] Maslin too thought highly of Connery in the part, 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."[60] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Again is "one of the best James Bond risk thrillers ever made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its nigh acute and achieved."[61] Arnold went farther, proverb that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bail picture ever made, because information technology clearly surpasses whatsoever predecessors in the surface area of inventive and clever graphic symbol delineation".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott, likewise praised the film, saying that Never Say Never Again "may exist the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a showtime-rate managing director."[62] According to Scott, the director, with high-quality support cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the motion-picture show 3½ out of four stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was different from other Bond films: "For ane thing, there's more of a homo element in the flick, and information technology 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] Cistron Siskel of The Chicago Tribune besides gave the flick 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the pic was "one of the best 007 adventures ever made".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Considering Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced film, it has non been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Once more "be outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, simply as they're absent from MGM'south 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 70% of the reviews equally positive, with an average rating of five.60/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather bromidic and unnecessary, the render of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bond make Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is withal more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Again 16th among all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the picture show three 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 film "is more than miss than hit".[71] The review besides idea that the film was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bail being Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again every bit the ninth best Bond film to that bespeak, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the film "is successful but as a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even by his prime number, 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 picture which has "a hokey, jokey feel, [it] is possibly the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it'southward a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the picture makers couldn't offer him something improve than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was keen to see Sean Connery render as James Bail after a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting bandage was good, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer'due south Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... i of the most complex of Bail'south foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary besides wrote that the "flick is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... Information technology would exist ane of the all-time Bond 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 existence 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 Bail, with McClory announcing the next planned film Southward.P.E.C.T.R.Due east in a February 1984 consequence of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his role as Bond in another picture produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the borderline to purchase the rights to another film for $5 million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to brand some other picture 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 Advertizement, merely the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures caused McClory'south rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and subsequently announced that it intended to brand a series of Bond films, as the company also held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This movement prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to surrender all claims on Bail; McClory still claimed he would proceed with another Bond film,[79] and continued his case against MGM and Danjaq;[lxxx] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'south acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical film accommodation of that novel the same twelvemonth 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 series in the picture show Spectre.

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

Encounter besides [edit]

  • Outline of James Bail

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External links [edit]

  • Never Say Never Once more at IMDb
  • Never Say Never Again at AllMovie
  • Never Say Never Over again at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Never Say Never Again at Box Office Mojo
  • Never Say Never Again at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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