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1983 James Bail film directed by Irvin Kershner

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

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

Product
visitor

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

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

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • Us
Linguistic communication English
Budget $36 million
Box office $160 1000000[2]

Never Say Never Once again is a 1983 spy film directed by Irvin Kershner. The moving-picture show is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 film of the same proper name. Never Say Never Once more was not produced by Eon Productions, but by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The motion-picture show was executive produced by Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory retained the filming rights of the novel post-obit a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the part of Bond for the 7th and final time, mark his render to the grapheme 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film'southward title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that office again. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nearly three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an crumbling Bond who is brought dorsum into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never Again was released by Warner Bros. on 7 October 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the acting of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise as more emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the mean solar day. The motion picture was a commercial success, grossing $160 1000000 at the box role, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the same year.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 amanuensis James Bond, 007, fails a routine training do, his superior, One thousand, orders Bond to a health dispensary outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bail witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush 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 machine which scans his middle. Bond is seen past Chroma, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to impale him in the clinic gym, but Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her charge, a heroin-addicted United States Air Strength pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal arrangement run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his correct centre to make information technology friction 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 then, he replaces the dummy warheads of 2 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 by causing his auto to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE's tracks.

Foreign Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 department, and Bond is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bond follows a atomic number 82 to the Bahama islands where he meets Domino Petachi, the airplane pilot'southward sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE's summit agent.

Bond is informed past Nigel Modest-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo'south yacht is now heading for Prissy, France. There, Bail joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a health and beauty centre where he poses every bit 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 effect, Largo and Bond play a three-D video game called Domination; the losing actor of each turn receives a series of electrical shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. Afterwards 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 by Chroma. After a vehicle chase 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 Ane" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-consequence fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter endeavour to board Largo'south motor yacht, the Flight Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to make Largo jealous by kissing Domino in front of a 2-fashion mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations in Due north Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond afterward escapes from his prison house and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. After the outset warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they runway Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, beneath a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter's team and Largo's men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the 2d warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. But equally Largo tries to utilise a spear gun to shoot Bail, he is shot with a spear gun past Domino, taking revenge for her brother'southward death. Bail and so defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bail retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 amanuensis 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer equally Maximillian Largo, a billionaire man of affairs and SPECTRE Number 1, SPECTRE'south senior-most amanuensis. He is based on the character Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera equally Fatima Chroma; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to chase down and kill 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 inverse to Petrescu for the Italian release of the film.
  • Bernie Casey as Felix Leiter, Bond'southward CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen equally "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 department Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Fox as "M", Bond's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, Grand's secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson equally Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Part representative in the Commonwealth of the bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahamas, whom Bail seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach as Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to kill Bond at the clinic.
  • Anthony Sharp as Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders M to reactivate the Double-0 department.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi'southward brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early on 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[three] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bail motion picture, to be called Longitude 78 West,[4] which was after abandoned considering of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a good 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 Court in London for breach of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] Afterwards Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it later made a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and and so non brand whatever further version of the novel for a period of x years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[eight]

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 writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[ix] 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).[10] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Island equally 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 picture based only on the novel Thunderball, and in one case again the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the stop of the 1970s developments were reported on the project nether the proper name James Bond of the Secret Service,[8] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that yet surrounded the project[x] [3] 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 afterward McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the result in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[eleven] Schwartzman brought on lath 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 than serious projects such equally Iii 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; however, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's 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 upkeep.[10] Connery then hired British boob tube writers Dick Cloudless and Ian La Frenais[xi] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script being theirs. This was considering of a restriction by the Writers Order of America.[14] Clement and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, frequently altering it from 24-hour interval to solar day.[10]

The motion-picture show underwent one final modify in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond over again.[9] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the championship Never Say Never Over again, referring to her husband'due south vow[fifteen] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past list on the cease credits "Championship Never Say Never Once more by Micheline Connery". A final effort by Fleming's trustees to block the motion-picture show was made in the Loftier Court in London in the jump of 1983, simply this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to go along.[sixteen]

Bandage and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[17] although the project came to cypher because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the merchandise press, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as managing director.[nine]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going head-to-head with the adjacent Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[18] Past 1980, with legal bug again causing the project 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 film."[twenty] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 million ($8 million in 2021 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percentage of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple contradistinct 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 historic period and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland'south porter referring to Bail's motorcar ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new Yard 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 angling trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Sea.[x] Connery'south casting was formally appear in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help go far shape for the production.[10]

For the main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian motion picture Mephisto.[24] Through the same road came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he yet retained his Eon-originated white cat in the pic.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected old model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[fourteen] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little bit of black widow and a trivial fleck of praying mantis."[ten] Carrera's performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Gilded Globe Honor nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met upwardly-and-coming extra 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 role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might brand him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would afterwards parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson's character was added by Clement and La Frenais afterwards the production had already started in order to provide the picture show with a comic relief.[x] Edward Play a joke on was cast every bit M in lodge to portray the character every bit a young technocrat in dissimilarity to the older portrayal past Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry's budget cuts to government services.[ten]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, simply after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] One-time Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty'south Secret Service, Peter R. Chase, was approached to straight the motion picture 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 so hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including start assistant director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, 2d 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 Flight Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for ii months[14] earlier moving to Nassau, the Bahama islands in mid-Nov[12] where filming took identify at Clifton Pier, which was likewise one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo'due south Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo's transport, 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.[10] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree as well housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took iii 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 additional shooting during the summertime of 1983.[12]

Production on the film was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production 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 movie producer".[32] After the production ran out of coin, Schwartzman had to fund farther production out of his own pocket and later on admitted he had underestimated the amount the flick would cost to brand.[35] At that place was tension on set between Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism backside the scenes and was on record as saying that the whole product was a "encarmine Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this motion-picture show, broke Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was cleaved until over a decade later on.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner'south and Schwartzman'southward first selection to etch the score after being impressed with his piece of work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for well-nigh 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 Again was written by Michel Legrand, who equanimous a score similar to his work every bit a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised equally "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the most disappointing characteristic of the film".[24] Legrand as well wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had too worked with Legrand on the Academy Award-winning vocal "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 vocal, written past Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but 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 Bond 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 Bail Theme" to use, although no endeavor was made to supply another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed just not 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 Over again opened on 7 October 1983 in 1,550 theatres grossing an October record $ten,958,157 over the 4-24-hour interval Columbus 24-hour interval weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening tape of any James Bond picture" upwardly to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $viii.ix million from June that year. The film had its UK premiere at the Warner West Stop cinema in Leicester Square on 14 Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Once more grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 million.[45] The pic ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.v million.[46] [47] Information technology was the first James Bond pic to exist officially released in the Soviet Union, premiering in the summer of 1990 with a gala in Moscow.[48]

Warner Bros. released Never Say Never Once more on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[50] Afterwards Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, beneath), the visitor has released the moving-picture show on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Contemporary reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Once more 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 better Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie also thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if annihilation, is more highly-seasoned than ever every bit the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking inappreciably a day older or thicker, and still outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex and violence on the mode".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very nearly brand it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Fourth dimension Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying "The action's practiced, the photography fantabulous, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played by a man with the correct stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery'southward Bond, proverb the flick contains "the best Bond in the business",[56] but nevertheless did not observe Never Say Never Again any more than 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 Love".[56] Malcolm's primary 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 endeavor to make graphic symbol as of import as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed upwardly that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch but not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted picture show ends up making no contribution of its ain and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an hour-glass full of damp sand, the film moves with increasing slowness as it approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early office of the motion picture was handled "with wit and manner",[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 picture and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer'south character was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who accept slithered through Bond'southward career".[59] Schickel'southward highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is good to see Connery's grave stylishness in this role again. It makes Bail's cynicism and opportunism seem the production 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 film, saying she thought that Never Say Never Once more "has noticeably more humor and character than the Bond films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin too thought highly of Connery in the office, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to arrange an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the pecker."[lx] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Once again is "one of the best James Bond take chances thrillers ever made",[61] going on to say that "this movie is likely to remain a cherished, savory case of commercial filmmaking at its near astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went farther, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the all-time acted Bail picture ever made, considering it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott, also praised the film, maxim that Never Say Never Over again "may exist the only instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed past a showtime-charge per unit managing director."[62] According to Scott, the director, with high-quality back up cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the motion picture 3½ out of four stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Once more, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was dissimilar from other Bond films: "For one affair, there's more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, equally Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add together, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, by God, is Sean Connery equally Sir James Bond. Good piece of work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune too gave the pic 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the picture 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 complacent male sexist fantasy, where women tin can be only femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced motion-picture show, 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 outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just equally they're absent from MGM's megabox. But take my word for information technology; they're both pretty atrocious".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged lxx% 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 bromidic and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more than understated Bond make Never Say Never Once more 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 amid all Bail films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted boilerplate score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the picture three of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to call information technology quits the first fourth dimension round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Over again a score of v out of 10, claiming that the picture "is more miss than hit".[71] The review also thought that the film was "marred with as well many clunky exposition scenes and non enough moments of Bail beingness Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Once again as the ninth all-time Bond film to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter idea the film "is successful only as a portrait of an over-the-colina superhero." He admitted that "even past his prime number, Connery proves that nobody does it better".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Over again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a film which has "a hokey, jokey feel, [information technology] is possibly the worst-written Bail script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "information technology's a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the film makers couldn't offer him something amend than this fatigued-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was great to see Sean Connery return equally James Bond later on a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting cast was good, proverb that Klaus Maria Brandauer'southward Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the virtually circuitous of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary also wrote that the "movie is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would exist ane of the best Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't work because viewers usually can't tell the hero and villain apart and they know doubles are beingness 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 Bond, with McClory announcing the side by side planned film South.P.E.C.T.R.Eastward in a February 1984 consequence of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his role as Bond in another film produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the borderline to buy the rights to another motion picture for $5 meg, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to brand another film without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to brand 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'south rights for an undisclosed amount,[four] and afterwards appear that it intended to brand a serial of Bond films, every bit the company also held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This move prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to give upward all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would keep with some other Bond film,[79] and continued his case against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's adapt.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'southward acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally immune Eon Productions to brand a serious, not-satirical moving-picture show accommodation of that novel the aforementioned year with Daniel Craig equally James Bond. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the film Spectre.

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

See besides [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

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  • Never Say Never Once more at Box Office Mojo
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