"You have to do the work to make the female characters more than just contrivances," director Cary Joji Fukunaga told the Hollywood Reporter.
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Teaming up in Cuba with a fresh young operative, Paloma – Ana de Armas ( Knives Out), oozing enough sass and style to suggest her own spinoff series – Bond pursues a turncoat Russian scientist (David Dencik) at a cocktail bash, where half of SPECTRE gets wiped out.
( Supplied: Universal)īefore you can shout "No, time to die!", SPECTRE henchmen arrive to deliver their boss's violent regards, and there's a car chase that ends in an incredibly tense moment between Bond and Madeleine – the threat of betrayal hanging in the air like so much machine-gun fire.įive years later, SPECTRE goons raid a bio-weapons lab and steal a deadly virus with the potential to wipe out millions – welcome back to the 'escapism' of blockbuster cinema – and Bond, kickin' it in the Caribbean, gets a visit from his old CIA pal Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), who warns him their old nemeses are afoot.
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"We have all the time in the world," he reassures her, although the callback to On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) – the only movie where Bond got hitched, with fatal results – isn't exactly a comfort to the viewer.īond (then played by Sean Connery) married Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama) as part of a disguise in You Only Live Twice. No Time to Die finds Bond and Madeleine enjoying their European retirement, even if he still hasn't quite gotten over Vesper Lynd (Eva Green, cameoing as a headstone), the late MI6 operative who double-crossed him and broke his heart, and she's haunted by the memory of the kabuki-masked killer that tried to murder her family as a child. (Of all the many, many women in his life, is it any wonder that Bond ended up falling for a shrink?) When we last saw Bond, he'd tossed his Walther PPK into the Thames like some rom-com princess and was driving off into the sunset – albeit in the Aston Martin DB5 – with Dr Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), psychiatrist daughter of a high-ranking SPECTRE assassin. No Time to Die, the long-delayed 25th entry in the nearly 60-year-old spy series, might not fulfil the cultural reset promised by Craig's debut, Casino Royale (2006), but it's a big, brawny blockbuster that swings for the bleachers, sending him off with a resounding – and unexpectedly emotional – kiss and a bang.Ĭraig finished filming Spectre with a broken leg: "I had to question myself: Was I physically capable of doing ?" he told The New York Times. Who can you trust in a world where there are no longer heroes and villains, where data is as deadly as missiles? Across Daniel Craig's 15-year tenure as James Bond (the longest reign of any actor, though both Sean Connery and Roger Moore each made more films), he's gone from rebooted, post-9/11 blunt instrument to a more familiar, high-espionage agent for the age of global surveillance – an identity crisis endemic to a franchise that's variously shaken, stirred and shamelessly serviced the expectations of its generations-spanning audience.Įven Craig seemed exhausted by the end of his fourth mission, the back-to-business Spectre (2015): "I'd rather slash my wrists," he replied when asked if wanted to make another Bond film.
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