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1983 James Bail film directed by Irvin Kershner

Never Say Never Over again
A poster at the top of which are the words "SEAN CONNERY as JAMES BOND in". Below this is a head and shoulders image of man in a dinner suit. Inset either side of him, are smaller scale depictions of two women, one blonde and one brunette. Underneath the picture are the words "NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN"

British cinema 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 past Jack Schwartzman
Starring
  • Sean Connery
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Max von Sydow
  • Barbara Carrera
  • Kim Basinger
  • Bernie Casey
  • Alec McCowen
  • Edward Fox
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
company

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

Release dates
  • seven October 1983 (1983-ten-07) (U.Southward.)
  • fifteen December 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.Chiliad.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • Britain
  • United States
Linguistic communication English language
Budget $36 million
Box role $160 meg[2]

Never Say Never Over again is a 1983 spy film directed past Irvin Kershner. The motion picture is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball past Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story past Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 motion picture of the aforementioned name. Never Say Never Over again was non produced by Eon Productions, merely past Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The flick 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 function of Bond for the seventh and final time, marker his render to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The picture's title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that role again. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although virtually iii years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought dorsum into action to investigate the theft of 2 nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included French republic, Spain, the Bahama islands and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

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

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine preparation do, his superior, M, orders Bond to a wellness clinic outside London to go back into shape. While at that place, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Chroma giving a sadomasochistic chirapsia to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a auto which scans his heart. Bond is seen by Chroma, who sends an assassinator, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, simply Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her charge, a heroin-addicted United states of america Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal system run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an functioning on his right eye to make it match the retinal pattern of the United states 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 then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Blush murders Petachi by causing his car to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE's tracks.

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

Bond is informed by Nigel Pocket-sized-Fawcett of the British High Committee that Largo's yacht is at present heading for Squeamish, French republic. At that place, Bond 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 charity outcome, Largo and Bail play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing player of each plough receives a series of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. Afterward losing a few games, Bail 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 by Blush. After a vehicle hunt on his Q-branch motorbike, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is eventually 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. Bail distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen gun to impale Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter attempt to board Largo'south 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 of a two-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bail and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo'south base of operations of operations in Due north Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond subsequently escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bail reunite with Leiter on a U.South. Navy submarine. Later the first warhead is institute and defused in Washington, D.C., they rails Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian declension. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter'due south squad and Largo'southward men in the temple. In the defoliation, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bail 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 and so defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to exist a clandestine agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery equally James Bond, MI6 amanuensis 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number i, SPECTRE'due south senior-almost amanuensis. He is based on the graphic symbol Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera equally Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt 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 inverse to Petrescu for the Italian release of the film.
  • Bernie Casey every bit Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who problems specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox every bit "M", Bail'due south superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, Chiliad'southward secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Pocket-sized-Fawcett, Strange Office representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahamas, whom Bond 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 clinic.
  • Anthony Sharp as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the dispensary.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used past SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's brother.

Production [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 Bail pic, to be chosen Longitude 78 West,[4] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[five] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a proficient idea lie idle",[five] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did non credit either McClory or Whittingham;[6] McClory then took Fleming to the High Courtroom in London for breach of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it later fabricated a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, then not make any farther version of the novel for a flow 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 production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought author Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[9] A lawsuit with Eon Productions ended in a ruling that McClory endemic the sole rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld, forcing Eon to remove them from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).[x] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting downwardly airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Island as staging areas for an invasion of New York Metropolis through the sewers nether Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[ten] The script ran into difficulties later on accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a pic based only on the novel Thunderball, and once again the projection was deferred.[8]

Towards the finish of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bail of the Secret Service,[viii] just when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that all the same surrounded the projection[10] [3] he decided confronting using Deighton's script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in order to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to make the screenplay "somewhere in the eye" between his campier projects such every bit Batman and his more serious projects such every bit Iii Days of the Condor.[ten] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; nevertheless, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon'south Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project after Irvin Kershner was hired equally director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the budget.[ten] Connery then hired British television writers Dick Cloudless and Ian La Frenais[11] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script beingness theirs. This was because of a brake past the Writers Society of America.[fourteen] Clement and La Frenais connected rewriting during the production, oft altering it from day to twenty-four hours.[10]

The film underwent ane concluding modify in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[ix] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her hubby's vow[fifteen] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by list on the end credits "Title Never Say Never Over again past Micheline Connery". A last attempt by Fleming'due south trustees to block the moving picture was fabricated in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to continue.[16]

Cast and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the function of Bond,[17] although the project came to nothing because of the legal problems 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 as director.[9]

In 1978, the working championship James Bail of the Hush-hush Service was being used and Connery was in the frame again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bond flick, Moonraker.[xviii] Past 1980, with legal bug again causing the projection to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually being in the pic."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 million ($viii million in 2021 dollars[21]), casting and script approving, and a percentage of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bail's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the fourth dimension 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 every bit the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's auto ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new M having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize 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 Sea.[10] Connery'due south casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help go far shape for the product.[10]

For the chief villain in the moving-picture show, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 University Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he withal retained his Eon-originated white cat in the flick.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the proper noun coming from one of the early on scripts of Thunderball.[14] Carrera said she modeled her functioning on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little bit of black widow and a little scrap of praying mantis."[10] Carrera's operation as Fatima Chroma earned her a Golden World Award nomination for All-time Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met upward-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 office. For the part of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, maxim that as the Leiter office was never remembered past audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson'south grapheme 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 Fox was cast every bit M in order to portray the graphic symbol as a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry's budget cuts to government services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, but after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Onetime Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Underground Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to straight the film just declined due to his previous piece of work with Eon.[thirty] 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 too appointed, including first banana manager David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second 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'south ship, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[fourteen] earlier moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was as well one 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, and so endemic 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.[10] Chief photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree also 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 jump of 1983, although there was some boosted shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Product on the picture show was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the product duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a good man of affairs, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer".[32] Later the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund farther production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would cost to make.[35] There was tension on prepare 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 every bit maxim that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

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

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman'south first pick to compose the score later being impressed with his work on Star Expedition 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 Bond composer John Barry was invited, but declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Once again was written past Michel Legrand, who equanimous a score similar to his work as a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised equally "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the about disappointing feature of the film".[24] Legrand also wrote the principal theme "Never Say Never Over again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had likewise worked with Legrand on the University Award-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 besides recorded a potential theme vocal, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, only the song — an unsolicited submission — was passed over, given Legrand'south 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 there was no "James Bond Theme" to apply, although no effort was made to supply some other melody.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the pinnacle of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on 7 Oct 1983 in 1,550 theatres grossing an October record $ten,958,157 over the four-day Columbus Day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening record of whatever James Bond film" up to that indicate[44] surpassing Octopussy 'south $8.9 million from June that twelvemonth. The pic had its United kingdom premiere at the Warner West Finish movie theater in Leicester Square on 14 Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid render on the upkeep of $36 meg.[45] The motion picture ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.five one thousand thousand.[46] [47] Information technology was the showtime James Bond film to exist officially released in the Soviet Matrimony, premiering in the summer of 1990 with a gala in Moscow.[48]

Warner Bros. released Never Say Never Again on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[50] Afterward Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, below), the company has released the film on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Gimmicky 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 "one of the amend Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is well-baked and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie likewise thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more appealing than e'er every bit the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is dorsum, looking hardly a day older or thicker, and even so outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex and violence on the fashion".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very about make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Fourth dimension Out summed up Never Say Never Once more saying "The activity's proficient, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once again played by a homo 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 Bond in the business",[56] but nevertheless 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 Russian federation with Beloved".[56] Malcolm'southward main issue with the film was that he had a "feeling that a abiding struggle was going on betwixt a desire to brand a huge box-function success and the effort to brand grapheme as important every bit stunts".[56] Malcolm summed upwardly that "the mix remains obstinately the same – upward 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 damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French ended that "similar an hour-glass total of damp sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness as 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 mode",[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 Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bond'south career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is good to see Connery's grave stylishness in this role over again. Information technology makes Bail's pessimism and opportunism seem the product of 18-carat worldliness (and world weariness) every bit opposed to Roger Moore'southward mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the motion-picture show, maxim she thought that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more humour and character than the Bond films commonly provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the role, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to accommodate 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 all-time James Bail risk thrillers ever made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is probable to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, proverb that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond moving-picture show ever fabricated, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The World and Mail, Jay Scott, also praised the film, saying that Never Say Never Once more "may be the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed past a first-rate director."[62] Co-ordinate to Scott, the director, with loftier-quality back up cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was dissimilar from other Bond films: "For one thing, in that location'due south more of a human element in the flick, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "in that location was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Adept work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the moving-picture show iii½ out of four stars, writing that the film was "i of the best 007 adventures ever fabricated".[64]

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

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Considering 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's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Over again "be exterior the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, but as they're absent from MGM's megabox. Merely take my word for information technology; they're both pretty awful".[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 render of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bond brand Never Say Never Once more a watchable retread."[67] The score is nonetheless more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Over 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 film three of a possible v stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to call it quits the first time round".[seventy] 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 likewise thought that the film was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and non enough moments of Bond existence Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Amusement Weekly rated Never Say Never Once more equally the 9th all-time Bond film to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter idea the motion-picture show "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 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, [information technology] is perhaps the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major disappointment that, having lured dorsum the original 007, the moving-picture show makers couldn't offer him something better than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "information technology was great to run across Sean Connery return as James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting cast was good, maxim that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the most circuitous of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "brand lasting impressions."[74] Peary also wrote that the "picture 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 autonomously and they know doubles are being used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Again was intended to starting time a series of Bond films produced past Schwartzman and starring Connery equally James Bail, with McClory announcing the adjacent planned moving picture Southward.P.East.C.T.R.Due east in a February 1984 upshot of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his office as Bond in another picture produced past Schwartzman three weeks before the borderline to purchase the rights to another film for $5 million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another moving-picture show without a bargain 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, only the moving picture was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory'south rights for an undisclosed amount,[iv] and afterwards announced that it intended to make a series of Bond films, as the company besides 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 give upward all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would proceed with another Bond film,[79] and continued his case confronting MGM and Danjaq;[eighty] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory'southward suit.[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 moving picture accommodation of that novel the same year with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Ultimately, McClory'southward heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the pic Spectre.

On 4 December 1997, MGM announced that the company had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Again from Schwartzman'southward 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 too [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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  • Never Say Never Again at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Never Say Never Again at Box Office Mojo
  • Never Say Never Again at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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