With Casino Royale, Martin Campbell established a more grounded James Bond, rooting the spy in the real world as much as that was possible. It worked like a charm and Daniel Craig silenced all those who doubted his chops to be James Bond. Marc Forster kept the vibe of the "new" Bond in the worst Bond movie of Craig series. When I say worst I don't mean a bad movie, just one that's not quite on par with the rest. Sam Mendes made Skyfall and Spectre, my two favorite movies of the series that stand shoulder to shoulder with the amazing Casino Royale, all while adding his own brilliant Mendes touch to the Bond universe.
No time to die sends Daniel Craig off with a bang. His series will be a memorable one and it successfully brought James Bond into the modern world. My biggest regret is that one of the greats, either Campbell or Mendes, couldn't helm this project. I feel they would have done a far more memorable job of allowing Craig to take a box than Cary Joji Fukunaga did.
No time to die is all over the place, tries to be too many movies wrapped into one. Ana de Armas, Jerrfrey Wright, Rami Malek, Ben Whishaw and Cristoph Walth were atrociously underused. It had just dawned on me that, had it been possible, it should have been a two part movie. The first should have given Bond and Madeline time to become what this movie tries to sell them as, two broken people who have successfully mended one another. Ending the first movie on the "betrayal" would have hurt even more. The reunion in the "sequel" would have had more weight behind it. Seydoux and Craig's talent sold it in the little time they had in this movie, they would have made it spectacular given more time. The weight of the last five minutes of this movie would have had far more impact on the audience. As it is, only the fact that it is Daniel Craig's last Bond movie that lends itself to the emotional conclusion.
Fare thee well, mister Craig. You were a great Bond.
Review by SwaggerBlockedParent2021-11-10T16:22:26Z
With Casino Royale, Martin Campbell established a more grounded James Bond, rooting the spy in the real world as much as that was possible. It worked like a charm and Daniel Craig silenced all those who doubted his chops to be James Bond. Marc Forster kept the vibe of the "new" Bond in the worst Bond movie of Craig series. When I say worst I don't mean a bad movie, just one that's not quite on par with the rest. Sam Mendes made Skyfall and Spectre, my two favorite movies of the series that stand shoulder to shoulder with the amazing Casino Royale, all while adding his own brilliant Mendes touch to the Bond universe.
No time to die sends Daniel Craig off with a bang. His series will be a memorable one and it successfully brought James Bond into the modern world. My biggest regret is that one of the greats, either Campbell or Mendes, couldn't helm this project. I feel they would have done a far more memorable job of allowing Craig to take a box than Cary Joji Fukunaga did.
No time to die is all over the place, tries to be too many movies wrapped into one. Ana de Armas, Jerrfrey Wright, Rami Malek, Ben Whishaw and Cristoph Walth were atrociously underused. It had just dawned on me that, had it been possible, it should have been a two part movie. The first should have given Bond and Madeline time to become what this movie tries to sell them as, two broken people who have successfully mended one another. Ending the first movie on the "betrayal" would have hurt even more. The reunion in the "sequel" would have had more weight behind it. Seydoux and Craig's talent sold it in the little time they had in this movie, they would have made it spectacular given more time. The weight of the last five minutes of this movie would have had far more impact on the audience. As it is, only the fact that it is Daniel Craig's last Bond movie that lends itself to the emotional conclusion.
Fare thee well, mister Craig. You were a great Bond.