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

Production
company

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

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

Running fourth dimension

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Language English
Budget $36 million
Box part $160 1000000[2]

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 adjusted in a 1965 motion picture of the same name. Never Say Never Over again was not produced by Eon Productions, but past Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The film was executive produced by 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 office of Bail for the seventh and final time, marking his return to the character 12 years later Diamonds Are Forever. The film'south championship is a reference to Connery'southward reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that office once again. Equally Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nigh three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bail who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of ii nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Commonwealth of the bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

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

Plot [edit]

Later on MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, M, orders Bail to a health clinic outside 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'due south confront is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bail sees the patient using a machine 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 kill Lippe.

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

Strange Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bond follows a lead to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot's sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'south tiptop amanuensis.

Bond is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo'southward yacht is now heading for Prissy, French republic. There, Bail joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a health and beauty centre where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an event at a casino that evening. At the clemency result, Largo and Bail play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing player of each plough receives a serial of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the corporeality wagered. After 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 discover Nicole killed past Blush. Afterward a vehicle chase 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 Ane" sexual partner. Bail distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter attempt to board Largo's motor yacht, the Flight Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to make Largo jealous by kissing Domino in front of a ii-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bail and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo'southward base of operations in Due north Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond afterward escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.Southward. Navy submarine. Afterwards the commencement warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they rails Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, below a desert haven on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter'southward team and Largo'south men in the temple. In the defoliation, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Just as Largo tries to utilise a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother's death. Bond then defuses the nuclear flop underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never once more to exist a secret agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire man of affairs and SPECTRE Number i, SPECTRE'southward senior-virtually 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 changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the film.
  • Bernie Casey equally Felix Leiter, Bond'southward CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who bug specialised equipment to Bail.
  • Edward Trick as "Chiliad", Bond'due south superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem every bit Miss Moneypenny, M'south secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Office representative in the Commonwealth of the bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon every bit Lady in Bahamas, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek equally Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach every bit Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to kill Bond at the clinic.
  • Anthony Sharp as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee every bit 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 brother.

Product [edit]

Never Say Never Over again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[three] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond moving picture, to be called Longitude 78 Westward,[iv] which was later abased because of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a skilful idea lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[6] McClory then took Fleming to the High Courtroom in London for breach of copyright[7] and the thing was settled in 1963.[4] After Eon Productions started producing the Bail films, it subsequently made a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not make any further version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[8]

In the mid-1970s McClory over again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to product and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[9] A lawsuit with Eon Productions 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 earlier taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Island as staging areas for an invasion of New York Urban center through the sewers nether 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 across copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a movie based only on the novel Thunderball, and once more the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the stop of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the 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 notwithstanding surrounded the project[ten] [3] he decided confronting using Deighton'south script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avert some other 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 piece of work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to brand the screenplay "somewhere in the middle" between his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such as Three Days of the Condor.[10] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the piece of 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'south Albert R. Broccoli.[xiii] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project afterward Irvin Kershner was hired every bit manager and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to salvage on the budget.[x] 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 last shooting script beingness theirs. This was considering of a restriction past the Writers Guild of America.[14] Cloudless and La Frenais connected rewriting during the production, frequently altering information technology from day to day.[x]

The picture show underwent one final change in championship: afterwards Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[nine] Connery's married woman, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband'southward vow[15] and the producers best-selling her contribution by listing on the end credits "Championship Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A last endeavor by Fleming's trustees to block the film was made in the High Courtroom in London in the spring of 1983, just this was thrown out past the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[16]

Cast and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had beginning planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the function of Bond,[17] although the projection came to goose egg considering of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead projection was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade printing, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as managing director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame over again, potentially going head-to-caput with the side by side Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[18] Past 1980, with legal issues once again causing the project to founder,[xix] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no idea of actually beingness in the film."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 one thousand thousand ($eight million in 2022 dollars[21]), casting and script blessing, and a per centum of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple contradistinct the script to include several references to Bond'south advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the fourth dimension of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond'southward auto ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new Thou having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond's age even farther, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the Due north Ocean.[10] Connery's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help go far shape for the production.[10]

For the master villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 University Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[24] Through the aforementioned route came Max von Sydow every bit 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.[14] 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 fiddling bit of praying mantis."[x] Carrera's performance as Fatima Chroma earned her a Golden Earth Laurels nomination for Best Supporting Extra,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean'due south wife, had met upwardly-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed afterwards Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino part. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, proverb that every bit the Leiter function was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others bandage included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson's grapheme was added by Clement and La Frenais after the product had already started in society to provide the motion-picture show with a comic relief.[10] Edward Fox was cast as One thousand in order to portray the character as a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry'southward budget cuts to regime services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the motion-picture show, but after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[x] Former Eon Productions' editor and manager of On Her Majesty'south Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the moving picture but declined due to his previous work with Eon.[xxx] Irvin Kershner, who had previously worked with Connery on A Fine Madness (1966), and had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was and then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were besides appointed, including beginning assistant managing director David Tomblin, managing director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit director 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 as Largo's transport, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Once more began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[xiv] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also ane of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo'southward 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 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.[x] Main photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree besides 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] Most of the filming was completed in the leap of 1983, although in that location was some boosted shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Production on the moving picture was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the product duties with assistant manager David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was disquisitional of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a good businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer".[32] Later the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and afterwards admitted he had underestimated the amount the flick would cost to make.[35] In that location was tension on gear up between Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism backside the scenes and was on record as saying that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse functioning!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts teacher for this moving-picture show, bankrupt Connery'due south wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Bear witness with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did non know his wrist was broken until over a decade later on.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman's first choice to compose the score subsequently being impressed with his work on Star Trek Two: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the time, wound upwardly unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman afterwards claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bond composer John Barry was invited, simply 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 most disappointing feature of the film".[24] Legrand also wrote the primary theme "Never Say Never Over 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"[xl] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] afterwards Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the vocal, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, just 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 barrel sequence, where a screen total of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bail Theme" to use, although no effort was made to supply another melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[43] instead the moving-picture show 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 Again opened on seven October 1983 in 1,550 theatres grossing an Oct record $10,958,157 over the iv-day Columbus Day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening record of any James Bond movie" upwardly to that indicate[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.nine million from June that year. The film had its U.k. premiere at the Warner W End cinema in Leicester Square on fourteen Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 million.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 one thousand thousand.[46] [47] It was the kickoff James Bail 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 Over again on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[fifty] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (meet Legacy, below), the company has released the movie 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 past the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Again was "one of the improve Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie also idea that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if annihilation, is more appealing than ever equally the fashionable resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a day older or thicker, and still outclassing every other exponent of the function, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sexual activity and violence on the manner".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very nearly make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Fourth dimension Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying "The action'south practiced, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bail is again played by a human being with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery'due south Bail, saying the moving picture contains "the best Bond in the business concern",[56] just withal did not find Never Say Never Again whatever 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 Beloved".[56] Malcolm's main event with the picture was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a want to make a huge box-office success and the effort to make grapheme as important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch but not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends up making no contribution of its own and inviting dissentious comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "similar an hour-drinking glass full of damp sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness equally it approaches a confused climax in the Farsi Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early on role 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 motion-picture show and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer'south character was "played with silky, neurotic amuse",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who take slithered through Bail's career".[59] Schickel'southward highest praise was saved for the render of Connery, observing "it is skillful to see Connery's grave stylishness in this function again. Information technology makes Bond's pessimism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and world weariness) equally opposed to Roger Moore'southward 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 Once more "has noticeably more than humor and grapheme than the Bail films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[sixty] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the role, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to adjust 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 Over again is "one of the best James Bond adventure thrillers always fabricated",[61] going on to say that "this flick is likely to remain a cherished, savory instance of commercial filmmaking at its nigh acute and achieved."[61] Arnold went farther, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond motion picture ever fabricated, considering it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the expanse of inventive and clever grapheme depiction".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Postal service, Jay Scott, as well praised the movie, maxim that Never Say Never Again "may exist the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed past a start-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 film three½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Once again, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was unlike from other Bail films: "For i thing, there's more than of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add together, "in that location was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, past God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Good piece of work, 007."[63] Cistron Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the motion-picture show 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the motion-picture show was "ane of the best 007 adventures ever made".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because 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'due south Casino Royale and Never Say Never Once again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, but as they're absent from MGM's megabox. Merely take my discussion 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 as positive, with an average rating of 5.lx/x. The site's critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bail make Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is nevertheless more than positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Again 16th amongst 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 mostly favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film three of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to call it quits the kickoff time round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of 10, claiming that the film "is more miss than hit".[71] The review also idea that the film was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bond being Bail".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the ninth all-time Bond moving picture to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter idea the flick "is successful only every bit a portrait of an over-the-colina superhero." He admitted that "even by his prime, Connery proves that nobody does information technology better".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never 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 Bail script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "information technology'southward a major thwarting that, having lured back the original 007, the film makers couldn't offering him something meliorate than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was great to see Sean Connery return equally James Bail after a dozen years".[74] He as well thought the supporting cast was skilful, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the about complex of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "brand lasting impressions."[74] Peary also 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 can't tell the hero and villain apart and they know doubles are being used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Again was intended to starting time a serial of Bail films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bond, with McClory announcing the next planned film S.P.East.C.T.R.E in a Feb 1984 event of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his function every bit Bail in another film produced by Schwartzman iii weeks before the deadline to purchase the rights to some other motion picture for $5 meg, 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 another adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 Advertizing, simply the flick was somewhen scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory'southward rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and later on appear that it intended to brand a serial of Bail films, as the visitor also held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This move prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to surrender all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would proceed with another Bond moving-picture show,[79] and continued his case against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the courtroom rejected McClory'south suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'south conquering of the rights to Casino Royale finally immune Eon Productions to brand a serious, non-satirical picture adaptation of that novel the same year with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the visitor to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the film Spectre.

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

See too [edit]

  • Outline of James Bail

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