No Time To Die

[HMP]

I tried searching, please, excuse me if I missed the thread on this.

I just finished No Time To Die, the newest James Bond movie, today - it's currently on Amazon Prime

I really liked it. I like Craig as Bond. And I like how it got to, and stayed in, the action quickly.

I liked Rami Malek (sp?) as the bad guy...I like him as an actor, done some cool stuff so far.
Didnt care for the new 007, and hated to see Bond's 'brother' die.

And that beautiful silver Aston...yeah, wow.

 

[MacEntyre]

I didn't like it at all.

Bond fell in love... again. Has a daughter. Failed. Died.

They could have just left Craig's previous movies to be his contribution... they were pretty good. But the last one is not really a Bond movie.

 

[Chuckman]

I love Bond flicks. Seen them all at least a dozen times, but this one just once, and I think I am good with that. I thought it was 'OK'. I do like that they made this Bond more 'human' and vulnerable. I liked the daughter angle. Malik was 'meh' as a baddie. I hated, hated, to see him die.

 

[JRV]

Just watched this last night. Neither the lady nor I understood how or why anything was happening.

So Malek’s villain somehow finds out about a black-ops off-the-books nanobot virus through a double-agent Russian defector, who individually had no connection to anyone or apparent motivation for poisoning anyone? And that coincidentally happens to jive with Malek’s family fascination with poison? And his family somehow has a history with Spectre, but that made him genocidal towards every person that had a DNA sample in a database?

I feel like they wrote the villain arc backwards from an idea of a “modern” threat and struggled to tie it into the existing story with any logical motivations. It’s complete nonsense. Missing the simple days of “bad man wants to radiate gold to make his gold more valuable/seize control of a satellite weapon/burn the identities of MI6 agents.”

And the new 007 literally could not stop taunting the old retired guy the entire time, so that her character arc could be “becomes nice?” What was her motivation for being a jerk to a retired guy prior to him ruining her op?

Lea Seydoux crying and speaking in muffled unsubtitled French the whole movie did not add to the enjoyability of it.

Really hoping the next Bond gets the franchise back to campy, exciting, self-contained stories. Exotic locales, people with punny names, charismatic villains, fun gadgets… no more overarching romance plots between tortured generational trauma victims. We got two of those plots running through five movies.