Rent No Time to Die (2021)
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2h 36min
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- Synopsis:
- Daniel Craig returns one last time as James Bond, starring alongside Oscar winner Rami Malek in 'No Time To Die'. Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
- Actors:
- Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, David Dencik, Dali Benssalah, Lisa-Dorah Sonnet, Coline Defaud, Mathilde Bourbin, Hugh Dennis, Priyanga Burford, Joe Grossi
- Directors:
- Cary Joji Fukunaga
- Producers:
- Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
- Writers:
- Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga
- Others:
- Mark Taylor, Chris Corbould, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, James Harrison, Tom Cross, Jonathan Fawkner, Oliver Tarney, Simon Hayes, Charlie Noble, Paul Massey, Finneas O'Connell, Elliot Graham, Linus Sandgren, Billie Eilish, Joji Fukunaga, Mark Bakowski, Joel Green
- Aka:
- Bond 25
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Action & Adventure, The Best of James Bond Films
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/12/2021
- Run Time:
- 163 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description, English Dolby Atmos, Italian Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing, Italian
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/12/2021
- Run Time:
- 163 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Atmos, Italian Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing, Italian
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (15) of No Time to Die
Good entertainment re-packaged for our PC age - No Time to Die review by Philip in Paradiso
As most J Bond films, this is good entertainment, but the plot is both implausible and predictable, and the story a bit shallow. D Craig is an ageing Bond brought out of semi-retirement in order to save the world. There are plenty of action scenes and pyrotechnics, and that is about it.
J Bond is a faithful lover who does not even think of sleeping around: even Ana de Armas is unable to lead him astray (and, in fact, shows little interest in him)! J Bond's romantic focus is Lea Seydoux, who has a tendency to look as if she has been sucking on bitter lemons for the past few days and is not enjoying any of it. When J Bond is brought out of retirement, he realizes that a new '007' has been appointed: Nomi (black British actress Lashana Lynch). So, we have a bit of virtue signalling thrown in for good measure: the ageing, straight white man is due to be replaced by a robust and super-fit black woman. (There is no indication, sadly, of her sexual preferences, however.)
This is a James Bond for the politically correct 21st century, without too many surprises, except one, towards the end, that one will not reveal. If you like Bond films, you will enjoy this one too. It is not bad, but it is not outstanding either, somehow.
10 out of 13 members found this review helpful.
Tedious - No Time to Die review by KB
I was bored for most of this long film . After about an hour i could have easily have ejected the dvd as i didn't really care what happened & after that every now and again i was looking at the film time to see when it was going to end .
There are a few one liners but they don't work as Craig has no sense of humour playing Bond and the lines aren't funny anyway and i also found the story a bit bemusing .I didn't notice too much product placement which was good .
Craig isn't convincing playing Bond and hasn't been right in the role .
6 out of 7 members found this review helpful.
Times up - No Time to Die review by HM
Great opening sequence and then the usual tired stuff. New 007 is a woman and of course she is black. Then there is a slip of a girl a bit dipsy but becasue it says so in the script she suddenly becomes a Ninja slaughtering bad guys and turning into an athlete. Totally the opposite of her actual character. What to do with women in action films? Make then into fake men of course! Bad guys cannot shoot straight and jump out from cover to be convenietly shot. In fact the shoot up sequences are pure video game nonsense.
Craig is too old for this now and should have been retired 2 movies ago. No sexual frission between the characters, Bond has been imasculated. Q is an Asian so there we are: Black, Asian and action woman. The British Army needs these women, we would have sorted Helmand Province out no problem. What a load of Woke rubbish. This version of Bond is dead in the water. Retire the character altogether if it cannot be done properly.
5 out of 6 members found this review helpful.
Critic review
No Time to Die (aka Bond 25) review by Mark McPherson - Cinema Paradiso
James Bond has certainly gone through a lot of changes with the Daniel Craig run. We saw a much sterner approach to the business of spy missions in Casino Royale. We saw that bitterness at losing the girl carry over into Quantum of Solace, establishing more of a serialized nature for this series of films. We saw his organization undergo some massive restructuring in Skyfall, where key characters would bite the dust. Spectre, sadly, was more of a return to form as Bond beats back on Blofeld. Thankfully, No Time To Die pulls out just a few more subversions before Craig bows out of the Bond title.
The film picks up where the last one left off with Bond trying to go on a romantic getaway with Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux). Their vacation is cut short when Bond finds himself still being targeted by Spectre despite having successfully imprisoned the leader of Blofeld. Keen enough to notice the pattern, Bond decides to ditch his entire lifestyle. The secret agent missions, the loyalty to queen and country, and the romance with a girl who will most certainly die or split at some point. Bond rejects the title 007.
Naturally, since this happens early in the film, Bond finds that he can’t stay away forever. There’s a three-way battle underway between MI6, Spectre, and some unknown terrorists that is resulting in conspiracies and double-crosses. This is clearly a mission for the man with the most quotable name delivery, even though he no longer works for MI6. Of course, Bond can’t run from the past and, unlike previous Bond pictures, this bitter past is addressed and tackled head-on as Bond goes on another adventure.
For the more traditional Bond fans, relax, all the familiar tropes are still here. Bond still gets into thrilling stunts, as when he races around the crowded corners of a mountain town with a motorcycle, making ridiculously dangerous jumps. The toys are back once more as Bond’s indestructible car lays waste to Spectre hostiles with its headlight-hidden miniguns. There’s a one-shot Bond girl as well (Ana de Armas) who looks good in a dress. Though she does more butt-kicking than making out with Bond. In fact, their meet-cute situation doesn’t lead to a sex scene.
So, yes, this is perhaps the most subversive of Bond films but that’s kinda been the march of the Craig era thus far. Traits that were once disposable in Bond movies have now become part of a long-running narrative. Remember that girl who bit the dust in the first Craig Bond movie of Casino Royale? He hasn’t forgotten her and that death still haunts him about the future the spy can have. Remember Blofeld from Spectre? His presence still lingers and plays an important role in Bond’s return for vengeance. Nobody is safe either as returning characters may not survive every dangerous encounter.
The most controversial call may be Bond’s replacement for Nomi (Lashana Lynch). She takes on the title of 007 and treats Bond’s departure with bitterness, filling shoes that were once that of the greatest spy in MI6. Nomi slyly states that MI6 wouldn’t just retire a number and it is just a number as the two of them later admit when they learn to work with each other. Also, Bond gets the title back soon after so calm down, Bond traditionalists.
The weakest part of the picture is by far the villain. Rami Malek tries his best to play a terrorist mastermind who specializes in bioweapons and seems to take inspiration from the Japanese. But he can’t do much when his character is only meant to calmly ramble in simple villain platitudes of cleansing the world and getting rid of the evils that he deems as such. Bond at one point states that the villain is just one in a long line of angry men. In the Bond villain line, he’s seated more towards the back, perhaps behind that dude who wanted to manipulate the media in Tomorrow Never Dies.
No Time To Die does have just enough twists to warrant a fitting end for Bond. Enough risks are taken so that it’s more than just the same old James Bond movie. However, so much of it comes so boldly telegraphed that it’s almost predictable where the somber finale is headed towards. It’s a solid James Bond movie in this regard and is sure to occupy the middle portion of everyone’s list on the best of the Craig era for the iconic spy character.