What are we as a society losing if we can’t rely on James Bond to get out of any tough situation? Surely Daniel Craig, Cary Joji Fukunaga and the 007 producers wanted to put some punctuation at the end of this, the more serious, post-9/11 era of James Bond. But I question - and perhaps you do, too - whether it is right. He says goodbye to his one true love (more on that in a bit) and to his obligations to Great Britain and the Free World.
He is blasted to smithereens by missiles on Lyutsifer Safin’s private island, and faces his annihilation with some sadness but also a proper stiff upper lip. James Bond is dead, and no, not in a jokey way like in You Only Live Twice. We did say “with spoilers” at the top of this article, so you have no one to blame but yourself here. Here’s what we couldn’t stop talking about when the picture ended.
It colours outside the lines in ways we haven’t seen before, and this may lead to some consternation. Where No Time to Die sits in the grand ranking of James Bond films is now up to the fans to decide, but one thing is for certain: like the non-Eon Sean Connery picture Never Say Never Again or even the jokey 1967 Casino Royale, Craig’s swansong will forever be remembered as something unique, maybe even a franchise asterisk. His services to Her Majesty are complete, and he’s not coming back as anything other than a flashback.
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