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Never Say Never Once 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 by Irvin Kershner
Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Story past
  • 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 Play a trick on
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
company

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

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

Running fourth dimension

 134 minutes
Countries
  • Uk
  • The states
Language English
Budget $36 million
Box office $160 million[ii]

Never Say Never Once more 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 picture of the same name. Never Say Never Again was not produced by Eon Productions, merely past Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The moving-picture show 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 part of Bail for the seventh and terminal fourth dimension, marking his render to the grapheme 12 years later Diamonds Are Forever. The film'south title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that role once again. As Connery was 52 at the fourth dimension of filming, although nearly 3 years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought dorsum into activeness to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Espana, the Bahama islands and Elstree Studios in the U.k..

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

Plot [edit]

Afterwards MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, Thousand, orders Bail to a health dispensary outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Chroma giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's confront is bandaged and after Chroma finishes her beating, Bail sees the patient using a automobile which scans his heart. Bond is seen past Blush, who sends an assassinator, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, but Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her charge, a heroin-fond United states of america 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 centre to make it match the retinal pattern of the The states President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American war machine base in England. While doing and so, he replaces the dummy warheads of two AGM-86B cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE so steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Blush murders Petachi by causing his car to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE's tracks.

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

Bond is informed past Nigel Pocket-sized-Fawcett of the British High Committee that Largo'due south yacht is at present heading for Nice, France. In that location, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA analogue and friend, Felix Leiter. Bail goes to a health and beauty center where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed past her that Largo is hosting an event at a casino that evening. At the charity issue, Largo and Bail play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing player of each turn receives a serial of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. Subsequently losing a few games, Bail ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her brother had been killed on Largo'southward orders. Bond returns to his villa to discover Nicole killed by Blush. Afterward a vehicle chase on his Q-branch motorbike, Bail finds himself in an deadfall and is somewhen captured by Blush. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bond to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen gun to impale Chroma with an explosive sprint.

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-manner mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo'south base of operations 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.Southward. Navy submarine. After the first warhead is plant and defused in Washington, D.C., they track 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 betwixt Leiter'south team and Largo'due south men in the temple. In the defoliation, Largo makes a getaway with the 2nd warhead. Bail catches and fights Largo underwater. Just as Largo tries to utilize a spear gun to shoot Bail, 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 Commonwealth of the bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number ane, SPECTRE'due south senior-most 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 downwardly and kill Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi, sis 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, Bail'south CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen equally "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox as "M", Bond's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, One thousand's secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Office representative in the Commonwealth of the bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahamas, whom Bail seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach as Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to kill Bond at the dispensary.
  • Anthony Sharp as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretarial assistant who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee equally Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF airplane pilot used past SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's brother.

Product [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early on 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[3] Fleming had worked with contained producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond picture, to be called Longitude 78 West,[4] which was later abased because of the costs involved.[v] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a good idea prevarication 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 Court in London for breach of copyright[7] and the thing was settled in 1963.[four] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it later on made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not make whatsoever farther version of the novel for a menstruum of x years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[8]

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to product 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).[10] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Island as staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers 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 project had gone across copyright restrictions, which bars McClory to a film based only on the novel Thunderball, and once once more the projection was deferred.[8]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the proper noun James Bail of the Hole-and-corner Service,[8] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal bug that nevertheless surrounded the project[10] [3] he decided against using Deighton's script. The projection returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avoid some other lawsuit from Danjaq and afterwards McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the consequence in a 1980 presidential fence 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 centre" between his campier projects such as Batman and his more than 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 nether a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project after Irvin Kershner was hired as director and Schwartzman began cut out the "big numbers" from his script to relieve on the budget.[10] Connery then hired British television writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[xi] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the last shooting script being theirs. This was because of a restriction by the Writers Guild of America.[14] Cloudless and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, frequently altering it from mean solar 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 Bail once more.[9] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her married man's vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past listing on the stop credits "Title Never Say Never Once again by Micheline Connery". A concluding endeavour past Fleming's trustees to cake the film was made in the Loftier Court in London in the jump of 1983, only this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Once more was permitted to keep.[16]

Cast and crew [edit]

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

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once over again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bail pic, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the projection to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the office, equally he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of really being in the picture."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $three meg ($viii 1000000 in 2020 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percent 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 being 52 at the time of filming[22] – and bookish 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's motorcar ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new M having no use for the 00 department 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 angling trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the Due north Body of water.[10] Connery's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to assistance go far shape for the product.[ten]

For the main 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 even so retained his Eon-originated white cat in the motion-picture show.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from 1 of the early on scripts of Thunderball.[xiv] Carrera said she modeled her operation on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little bit of blackness widow and a lilliputian flake of praying mantis."[10] Carrera'south operation equally Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for All-time Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean'due south married woman, had met up-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 role. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a blackness Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others bandage included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later on parody Bond in his office of Johnny English language in 2003.[29] Atkinson's graphic symbol was added past Clement and La Frenais after the production had already started in order to provide the film with a comic relief.[10] Edward Trick was cast as One thousand in order to portray the character every bit a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry'south upkeep cuts to government services.[x]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the motion picture, merely after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Old Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty'southward Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to straight the movie merely 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 Dorsum was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 movie Raiders of the Lost Ark were too appointed, including beginning assistant director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, 2d unit of measurement 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 every bit Largo'south transport, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never 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 place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo'southward ship, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, and 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.[10] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree likewise housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands wellness spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [x] Most of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some boosted shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Product on the film was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant managing director David Tomblin.[32] Manager Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a proficient man of affairs, "he didn't have the experience of a picture 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 pic would cost to make.[35] In that location was tension on ready betwixt Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism behind the scenes and was on record as maxim that the whole product was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

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

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner'due south and Schwartzman'southward get-go selection to compose the score later being impressed with his piece of work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for virtually of the time, wound up unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman afterward 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 nearly disappointing feature of the pic".[24] Legrand also wrote the chief 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 Listen"[40] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme song, written 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 Bail films were not present 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 in that location was no "James Bond Theme" to utilize, although no effort was made to supply another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed just non used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the pinnacle of the opening sequence of Bond on a grooming mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on seven October 1983 in 1,550 theatres grossing an October tape $10,958,157 over the 4-day Columbus Day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening tape of any James Bond film" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.9 meg from June that year. The film had its UK premiere at the Warner West End cinema in Leicester Square on fourteen 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] It was the starting time James Bail motion-picture show to be officially released in the Soviet Union, premiering in the summertime 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.[50] Later Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, below), the company 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 Again was "i of the better Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie also thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more than highly-seasoned than e'er as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking inappreciably a day older or thicker, and withal outclassing every other exponent of the office, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex and violence on the way".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very near make information technology all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying "The activity's practiced, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played by a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery'south Bail, proverb the film contains "the best Bail in the business",[56] but even so did non discover Never Say Never Again any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very well-nigh to matching Dr. No or From Russian federation with Love".[56] Malcolm'south principal issue with the movie was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-role success and the effort to brand character as important every bit stunts".[56] Malcolm summed upwardly that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch merely 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 damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French ended that "like an hour-glass full of damp sand, the movie moves with increasing slowness every bit it approaches a dislocated climax in the Farsi Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early part of the film was handled "with wit and style",[58] although he went on to say that the managing 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 grapheme was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bond's career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the render of Connery, observing "information technology is good to come across Connery'south grave stylishness in this role again. It makes Bail'southward cynicism and opportunism seem the production of 18-carat worldliness (and world weariness) every bit opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the moving picture, saying she thought that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more than humor and character than the Bond films commonly provide. Information technology has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the office, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to conform an older, seasoned man 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 Once more is "one of the best James Bond take chances thrillers always made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond picture ever made, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the surface area of inventive and clever graphic symbol delineation".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott, too praised the film, saying that Never Say Never Again "may be the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a get-go-rate director."[62] According to Scott, the managing director, with high-quality support bandage, 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 different from other Bond films: "For one thing, there's more of a man element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... but hither, by God, is Sean Connery equally Sir James Bond. Proficient piece of work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the moving-picture show three½ out of iv stars, writing that the film was "one of the best 007 adventures always made".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced film, it has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967'southward Casino Royale and Never Say Never Over again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just every bit they're absent from MGM's megabox. But take my word for it; they're both pretty atrocious".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged 70% of the reviews as positive, with an average rating of 5.60/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 Bond brand Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is still more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never 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 moving-picture show three of a possible 5 stars, observing that "Connery was perchance wise to call it quits the first time round".[lxx] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of v out of 10, claiming that the movie "is more than miss than hit".[71] The review also idea that the pic was "marred with besides many clunky exposition scenes and non plenty moments of Bail being Bail".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Amusement Weekly rated Never Say Never Again every bit the 9th all-time Bond film to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the pic "is successful only as a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even past his prime, Connery proves that nobody does information technology improve".[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, [information technology] is possibly the worst-written Bail script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the film makers couldn't offering him something better than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was great to see Sean Connery render every bit James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting cast was good, maxim that Klaus Maria Brandauer'due south Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... 1 of the nearly complex of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary besides wrote that the "movie is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be one of the all-time Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't work considering viewers normally tin't tell the hero and villain apart and they know doubles are beingness used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Again was intended to outset a serial of Bond films produced past Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bail, with McClory announcing the next planned picture show Southward.P.E.C.T.R.Due east in a Feb 1984 consequence of Screen International.[75] When Connery appear that he would non reprise his role equally Bond in some other film produced by Schwartzman 3 weeks before the deadline to purchase the rights to another motion picture for $5 million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another picture without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to make another accommodation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 AD, but the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory's rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and afterward announced that information technology intended to make a serial of Bond films, as the company also held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This motility prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to give up all claims on Bond; McClory even so claimed he would proceed with another Bond film,[79] and continued his instance against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 Baronial 2001 the court rejected McClory'south suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'due south acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical film adaptation of that novel the same yr 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 Once 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 movie.[84] [52]

See also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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  • Never Say Never Over again at Box Role Mojo
  • Never Say Never Once again at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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