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1983 James Bond moving-picture show directed by Irvin Kershner

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 picture palace poster past 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 Pull a fast one on
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music past Michel Legrand

Production
company

Taliafilm
Distributed past
  • Warner Bros. (U.Southward.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.Yard.)[1]

Release dates
  • 7 October 1983 (1983-ten-07) (U.S.)
  • xv December 1983 (1983-12-fifteen) (U.One thousand.)

Running fourth dimension

 134 minutes
Countries
  • U.k.
  • U.s.a.
Language English
Upkeep $36 million
Box office $160 million[2]

Never Say Never Once again is a 1983 spy motion-picture show directed by Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball past Ian Fleming, which in plow was based on an original story past Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 pic of the same name. Never Say Never Once again was non produced by Eon Productions, but past Jack Schwartzman'due south Taliafilm. The film was executive produced by Kevin McClory, ane 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 final time, marking his return to the graphic symbol 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The pic'due south title is a reference to Connery's reported annunciation in 1971 that he would "never" play that role once more. Equally Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nearly three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included French republic, Spain, the Commonwealth of the bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United kingdom.

Never Say Never Once more was released by Warner Bros. on 7 October 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the interim of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise as more emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the twenty-four hours. 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]

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine grooming exercise, his superior, One thousand, orders Bail to a health clinic outside London to become back into shape. While at that place, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The homo'south confront is bandaged and afterwards Blush finishes her chirapsia, Bond sees the patient using a machine which scans his eye. Bond is seen past Chroma, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, but Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her accuse, a heroin-fond United states Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his right eye to make it match the retinal pattern of the US President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American armed services base in England. While doing 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, roofing SPECTRE's tracks.

Strange Secretarial assistant Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant 1000 to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking downwards the missing weapons. Bond follows a lead to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the pilot'southward sis, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'due south top agent.

Bond is informed past Nigel Small-scale-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo's yacht is now heading for Squeamish, France. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA analogue and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a health and dazzler middle where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an outcome at a casino that evening. At the clemency consequence, Largo and Bond play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing histrion of each turn receives a series of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the corporeality wagered. Afterward losing a few games, Bond ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her brother had been killed on Largo's orders. Bond returns to his villa to find Nicole killed past Blush. Subsequently a vehicle chase on his Q-branch motorbike, Bond finds himself in an ambush 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 Ane" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, and then uses his Q-branch-event fountain pen gun to impale Blush with an explosive dart.

Bail and Leiter attempt to board Largo'south motor yacht, the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bail finds Domino. He attempts to make Largo jealous by kissing Domino in forepart of a two-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo'due south base of operations in North Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her expose by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond afterward escapes from his prison house and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.Due south. Navy submarine. Subsequently the first warhead is institute and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bail and Leiter infiltrate the clandestine facility and a gun boxing erupts betwixt Leiter's team and Largo's men in the temple. In the defoliation, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Just every bit Largo tries to utilise a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun past Domino, taking revenge for her blood brother's death. Bond and so 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 surreptitious amanuensis.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number i, 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 down 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 flick.
  • Bernie Casey as Felix Leiter, Bail'southward CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen every bit "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox as "M", Bail's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, M'southward secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Role 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 Abrupt every bit Lord Ambrose, Strange Secretary who orders One thousand to reactivate the Double-0 department.
  • Prunella Gee every bit Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the dispensary.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy equally Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by 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.[iii] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond flick, to be called Longitude 78 W,[iv] which was afterward abased because of the costs involved.[5] 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 matter was settled in 1963.[4] Afterwards Eon Productions started producing the Bail films, it afterwards made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not brand whatever further version of the novel for a catamenia of ten years post-obit the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[8]

In the mid-1970s McClory over again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production 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 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.[10] 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 film based only on the novel Thunderball, and in one case once again the project was deferred.[eight]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Hugger-mugger Service,[eight] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal problems that withal surrounded the project[10] [three] he decided against 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 result in a 1980 presidential argue with Ronald Reagan.[xi] 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 middle" betwixt his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such as Three Days of the Condor.[ten] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the piece of work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to piece of work on the script; however, Mankiewicz declined equally he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project afterward Irvin Kershner was hired equally manager and Schwartzman began cutting out the "large numbers" from his script to save on the budget.[10] Connery then hired British television writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[11] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script being theirs. This was because of a restriction by the Writers Guild of America.[xiv] Cloudless and La Frenais connected rewriting during the production, often altering it from day to day.[10]

The motion-picture show underwent ane concluding alter in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond over again.[ix] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband's vow[fifteen] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the end credits "Title Never Say Never Over again past Micheline Connery". A concluding endeavor by Fleming's trustees to block the film was fabricated in the Loftier Court in London in the jump of 1983, just this was thrown out by the courtroom and Never Say Never Once more was permitted to proceed.[xvi]

Cast and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had beginning planned the motion-picture show in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bail,[17] although the project came to nothing because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the belatedly 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade press, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play Grand and Richard Attenborough as manager.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bail of the Surreptitious Service was being used and Connery was in the frame again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bond pic, Moonraker.[xviii] By 1980, with legal issues once again causing the project to founder,[19] Connery idea himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sun Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually being in the picture show."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 million ($8 1000000 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 Bond's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such equally the Shrubland's porter referring to Bail's car ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new Thousand having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond'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's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help go far shape for the product.[x]

For the primary villain in the pic, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he still retained his Eon-originated white cat in the picture.[26] For the femme fatale, managing director Irvin Kershner selected onetime model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the proper noun coming from i of the early scripts of Thunderball.[fourteen] Carrera said she modeled her functioning on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a picayune fleck of blackness widow and a little bit of praying mantis."[10] Carrera'south performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean'south wife, had met up-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 as the Leiter office was never remembered past audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others bandage included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would subsequently parody Bail in his function of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson'south character was added by Cloudless and La Frenais afterwards the production had already started in guild to provide the pic with a comic relief.[x] Edward Fox was cast as Thou in gild to portray the character equally a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal past Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry's budget cuts to government services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the flick, but after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Former Eon Productions' editor and managing director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the film but declined due to his previous work with Eon.[30] Irvin Kershner, who had previously worked with Connery on A Fine Madness (1966), and had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Dorsum was and then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant managing director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit director Mickey Moore and production designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[24] [31]

Filming [edit]

A large, sleek ship is moored at a quayside

The Kingdom 5KR which acted equally Largo's ship, 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 Bahamas in mid-Nov[12] where filming took identify at Clifton Pier, which was likewise one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually celebrated Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo'due south send, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, then owned by Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and chosen the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed by Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[x] Master 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] [ten] Nigh of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summertime of 1983.[12]

Production on the movie was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[32] Managing director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, proverb that, while he was a good businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a flick producer".[32] After the production ran out of coin, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and afterwards admitted he had underestimated the amount the film 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 tape as saying that the whole production was a "encarmine Mickey Mouse performance!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this film, broke Connery'due south 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'southward and Schwartzman's first choice to compose the score later on being impressed with his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the time, wound upwards unavailable co-ordinate to Kershner, though Schwartzman after claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bond composer John Barry was invited, only declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Once again was written by Michel Legrand, who equanimous a score like to his work every bit a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised every bit "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the nearly disappointing feature of the moving-picture show".[24] Legrand too wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Over again", which featured lyrics past Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the Academy Award-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"[40] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] later 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, just the song — an unsolicited submission — was passed over, given Legrand'due 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 Over again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen total of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no endeavour was made to supply some other tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed simply non used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bail on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on 7 October 1983 in one,550 theatres grossing an October record $10,958,157 over the four-day Columbus 24-hour interval weekend[2] which was reported to exist "the best opening record of whatsoever James Bail film" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 'due south $8.9 meg from June that year. The motion picture had its UK premiere at the Warner W Stop cinema in Leicester Square on 14 Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 1000000,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 meg.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.v 1000000.[46] [47] It was the first James Bail film to be officially released in the Soviet Marriage, 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.[fifty] After 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 Over again was broadly welcomed and praised past the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Limited, said that Never Say Never Again was "1 of the better Bonds",[53] finding the motion picture "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 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 hardly a day older or thicker, and withal outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex and violence on the manner".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer equally Maximillian Largo "very nearly make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying "The action'south good, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the existent clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played past a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bond, saying the motion picture contains "the best Bond in the business organization",[56] but nevertheless did not detect Never Say Never Once more any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very virtually to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Dear".[56] Malcolm'due south main issue with the film was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a want to make a huge box-office success and the effort to brand graphic symbol as of import every bit stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch just non surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted picture show ends up making no contribution of its own and inviting dissentious comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an 60 minutes-drinking glass full of damp sand, the motion-picture show moves with increasing slowness every bit it approaches a confused climax in the Western farsi Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early role of the motion picture was handled "with wit and way",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple's script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the film and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer'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 Bail's career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is good to run into Connery's grave stylishness in this role once again. Information technology makes Bond'south pessimism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and globe weariness) every bit opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, saying she thought that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more humor and character than the Bond films usually 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."[lx] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Again is "one of the best James Bond adventure thrillers ever made",[61] going on to say that "this pic is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went farther, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond film ever made, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott, besides praised the film, maxim that Never Say Never Over again "may be the only instalment of the long-running serial that has been helmed by a offset-rate director."[62] Co-ordinate to Scott, the director, with high-quality support cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the film three½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was unlike from other Bond films: "For one affair, there's more of a homo element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "at that place was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, by God, is Sean Connery equally Sir James Bond. Skilful work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune likewise gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the pic was "one 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 conceited male sexist fantasy, where women can be merely femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Once more is not an Eon-produced pic, information technology has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again "exist exterior the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, only as they're absent from MGM'south megabox. Just take my word for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged 70% of the reviews as positive, with an boilerplate rating of 5.60/10. 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 make 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 film 3 of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to call it quits the beginning time round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of 10, claiming that the film "is more than miss than hit".[71] The review also idea that the film was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bond being Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the ninth best Bail moving-picture show to that point, later on 17 films had been released. Sauter idea the film "is successful but 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 perchance the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it'south a major thwarting that, having lured dorsum the original 007, the film makers couldn't offer him something amend than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was not bad to see Sean Connery return as James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He besides thought the supporting cast was good, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the most complex of Bail's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary as well wrote that the "movie is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... Information technology would exist one of the best Bond 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 by Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bail, with McClory announcing the adjacent planned film S.P.E.C.T.R.Eastward in a Feb 1984 effect of Screen International.[75] When Connery appear that he would not reprise his role as Bond in another film produced by Schwartzman three weeks earlier the borderline to purchase the rights to another film for $five million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another motion-picture show without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to make another adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 AD, but the motion picture was somewhen scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory'southward rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and subsequently announced that it intended to make a series of Bond films, as the company likewise 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 up all claims on Bond; McClory still 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'southward suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'due south acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to brand a serious, not-satirical picture adaptation of that novel the aforementioned yr with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Ultimately, McClory'south heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the visitor to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon serial in the film Spectre.

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

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