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

Product
company

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

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

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United kingdom
  • United States
Language English
Budget $36 million
Box office $160 meg[ii]

Never Say Never Once again is a 1983 spy flick 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 past Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adjusted in a 1965 film of the aforementioned name. Never Say Never Once more was not produced by Eon Productions, but 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 following a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the role of Bond for the seventh and terminal time, marking his return to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film's title is a reference to Connery's reported proclamation in 1971 that he would "never" play that role once again. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nearly iii years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an crumbling Bond who is brought back into activity to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons past SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Kingdom of spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never Once 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 solar day. The movie was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box part, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released before the same year.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bail, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, Grand, orders Bond to a health dispensary exterior London to get back into shape. While at that place, Bail witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic chirapsia to a patient in a nearby room. The human'southward face is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a machine which scans his eye. Bail is seen by Blush, who sends an assassinator, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, but Bond manages to impale Lippe.

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

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

Bond is informed by Nigel Minor-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo'south yacht is at present 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 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 charity event, Largo and Bond play a three-D video game called Domination; the losing player of each turn receives a series of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the corporeality wagered. Later on losing a few games, Bail ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her blood brother had been killed on Largo'south orders. Bond returns to his villa to find Nicole killed by Chroma. Afterward a vehicle hunt on his Q-co-operative motorcycle, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is somewhen captured past Chroma. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bail to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bail distracts her with promises, so 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. Bail finds Domino. He attempts to make Largo jealous by kissing Domino in front end of a two-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations in North Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal past selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond subsequently escapes from his prison house and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. After the first warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known equally the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun boxing erupts between Leiter'southward squad and Largo's men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the 2d warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Just as Largo tries to apply a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother's decease. Bond then defuses the nuclear flop underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret amanuensis.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 amanuensis 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire man of affairs and SPECTRE Number 1, SPECTRE's senior-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 chase downwardly and impale Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger every bit Domino Petachi, sis of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the flick.
  • Bernie Casey as Felix Leiter, Bond'due south CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who problems specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox equally "M", Bond's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, Yard's secretarial assistant.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Office representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahamas, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek equally Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach as Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to kill Bond at the clinic.
  • Anthony Sharp equally Lord Ambrose, Strange Secretarial assistant who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy equally Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's brother.

Product [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[3] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond film, to be called Longitude 78 Due west,[4] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[v] Fleming, "always reluctant to permit a practiced thought lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[half-dozen] McClory so took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[seven] and the matter was settled in 1963.[iv] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and so not make whatever 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 again started working on a projection to bring a Thunderball accommodation 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).[10] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting downward 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 beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a flick based but on the novel Thunderball, and one time over again the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project nether the name James Bond of the Undercover Service,[8] merely when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that yet surrounded the project[10] [3] he decided against using Deighton'southward script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in lodge to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and afterward McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the consequence in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to brand the screenplay "somewhere in the center" between his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such equally Three Days of the Condor.[10] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; nonetheless, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[xiii] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project afterwards Irvin Kershner was hired as director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to salvage on the upkeep.[10] Connery then hired British television set 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 because of a brake by the Writers Guild of America.[14] Cloudless and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering information technology from day to day.[ten]

The film underwent 1 final change in championship: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[9] Connery's married woman, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her hubby's vow[xv] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past listing on the finish credits "Championship Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming's trustees to block the film was fabricated in the High Court in London in the jump of 1983, but 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 first planned the moving-picture show in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[17] although the project came to nada considering of the legal problems involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the tardily 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade press, including Orson Welles for the role of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play Thousand and Richard Attenborough as director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame in one case once more, potentially going head-to-head with the adjacent Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[18] Past 1980, with legal issues once again causing the projection to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, equally he stated in an interview in the Dominicus Express: "When I commencement worked on the script with Len I had no thought of really being in the motion-picture show."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $iii million ($8 million in 2021 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percentage of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the function, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bail'south advancing years – playing on Connery beingness 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'southward porter referring to Bail's auto ("They don't brand them similar that anymore"), the new Grand having no use for the 00 department and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bail's age even further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Bounding main.[x] Connery's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to assist make it shape for the product.[ten]

For the primary villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian motion-picture show 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 moving-picture show.[26] For the femme fatale, managing director Irvin Kershner selected one-time model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early on scripts of Thunderball.[14] Carrera said she modeled her operation on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a picayune bit of black widow and a little fleck of praying mantis."[x] Carrera's performance equally Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Earth Award nomination for Best Supporting Extra,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean'southward wife, had met upwardly-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed after Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that every bit the Leiter part was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might brand 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 character was added by Clement and La Frenais subsequently the production had already started in society to provide the movie with a comic relief.[10] Edward Fox was cast as 1000 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'due south upkeep cuts to authorities services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to directly the film, just after coming together Donner decided he disliked the script.[ten] Quondam Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Chase, was approached to straight the film 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 Back was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 picture Raiders of the Lost Ark were too appointed, including first assistant managing director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, 2d unit of measurement 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 send, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for 2 months[14] before moving to Nassau, the Bahama islands in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also ane of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's ship, the Flight Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, so 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.[x] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree too housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [10] Most of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Production on the flick was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with banana 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 feel of a film producer".[32] After the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund farther production out of his ain pocket and subsequently admitted he had underestimated the amount the motion picture would cost to make.[35] In that location was tension on set 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 equally saying that the whole production was a "encarmine Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this film, broke Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The This evening 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's showtime choice to compose the score after being impressed with his work on Star Trek Ii: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the fourth dimension, wound up unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman later claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bail composer John Barry was invited, but declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Once again was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his work equally a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised equally "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the well-nigh disappointing feature of the film".[24] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Once more", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the Academy Laurels-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"[40] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but the song — an unsolicited submission — was passed over, given Legrand's contractual obligations with the music.[42]

Legal substitutions [edit]

The outlines of row upon row of "007 007 007 007 007" fill the screen. A view of countryside, heavily obstructed can be seen in through the gaps.

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bail films were not present in Never Say Never Once more for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen full of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no endeavor was made to supply another melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a preparation mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on 7 Oct 1983 in ane,550 theatres grossing an Oct record $10,958,157 over the 4-day Columbus Day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening tape of any James Bail motion-picture show" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.9 1000000 from June that twelvemonth. The picture had its UK premiere at the Warner West Finish movie theatre in Leicester Square on fourteen Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 meg,[45] which was a solid render 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 first James Bail motion picture to be officially released in the Soviet Matrimony, 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.[50] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, below), the company has released the motion picture 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 Over again was "one of the better Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is well-baked and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie also thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more than appealing than always as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also full-bodied on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a mean solar day older or thicker, and still outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sexual activity and violence on the mode".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very nigh get in all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Once more saying "The activeness's skilful, the photography splendid, the sets decent; but the existent clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played by a homo with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to exist a fan of Connery's Bail, saying the film contains "the best Bond in the business organisation",[56] only withal did not notice Never Say Never Again any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm's main upshot with the picture was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-part success and the effort to make grapheme equally important 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 ends up making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an hour-drinking glass full of damp sand, the motion-picture show moves with increasing slowness equally it approaches a confused climax in the Persian 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 director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple's script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the motion-picture show and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer's 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's career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the render of Connery, observing "it is skillful to encounter Connery'south grave stylishness in this role again. It makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and world weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the motion-picture show, proverb she thought that Never Say Never Over again "has noticeably more humor and character than the Bail films normally provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the part, 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 beak."[sixty] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Again is "i of the best James Bond adventure thrillers ever made",[61] going on to say that "this flick is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its almost acute and achieved."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bail movie e'er made, because it clearly surpasses whatever predecessors in the surface area of inventive and clever graphic symbol delineation".[61]

The critic for The World and Postal service, Jay Scott, likewise praised the picture, maxim that Never Say Never Once more "may exist the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a first-rate director."[62] According to Scott, the director, with high-quality back up bandage, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the moving picture iii½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bail plot", was different from other Bail films: "For 1 thing, there'south more than of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, every bit Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "at that place was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Good work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the motion picture three½ out of 4 stars, writing that the film was "i of the best 007 adventures e'er made".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Over again is non an Eon-produced picture show, it has non been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967'south Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, merely equally they're absent from MGM's megabox. But accept my word for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the pic remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged seventy% of the reviews as positive, with an average rating of five.60/10. The site's disquisitional consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bond make Never Say Never Once again a watchable retread."[67] The score is however more than 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 by and large favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film three of a possible v stars, observing that "Connery was mayhap wise to call information technology quits the first time round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Once more a score of 5 out of 10, claiming that the flick "is more miss than hit".[71] The review as well thought that the moving-picture show was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and non enough moments of Bond being Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again equally the ninth best Bond film to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the film "is successful only equally a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even past his prime, Connery proves that nobody does it better".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Once again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a film which has "a hokey, jokey feel, [information technology] is possibly the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the pic makers couldn't offer him something better than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was slap-up to see Sean Connery return as James Bail subsequently a dozen years".[74] He as well thought the supporting cast was good, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer'southward Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... ane of the most complex of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary also wrote that the "film is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be one of the best Bail films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't piece of 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 start a series of Bond films produced past Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bail, with McClory announcing the next planned film South.P.E.C.T.R.East in a February 1984 consequence of Screen International.[75] When Connery appear that he would not reprise his role as Bond in another pic produced by Schwartzman three weeks earlier the deadline to purchase the rights to another flick for $5 million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another film without a bargain from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to make another adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 AD, but the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory'due south rights for an undisclosed corporeality,[iv] and subsequently appear that it intended to make a serial of Bond films, every bit the company too held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This motion prompted a circular of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to surrender all claims on Bond; McClory nevertheless claimed he would go along with another Bond film,[79] and continued his case against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory'south arrange.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical film adaptation of that novel the aforementioned year with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Ultimately, McClory'south heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, assuasive the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the moving-picture show Spectre.

On 4 Dec 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 film.[84] [52]

See as well [edit]

  • Outline of James Bail

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External links [edit]

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

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