You Don't Need To Bother With No Time To Die - No Time To Die (2021) - review

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[@TheDuke013]

A studio with balls need to take over the franchise and bring back the real bond.

[@dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984]

No studio will do this. This is an agenda to change society through corporate culture. And this won't stop until society understands the new value system being imposed. Even if you hate it. Tough fucking shit.

[@tatianaoliveira2191]

THIS! ^ agree Damn, a more faithfull Bond to the Ian Fleming's books but with the charisma and charm of Sean Connery (Like in "Goldeneye" and "Living Daylights") would be great But BOND, not a british version of Jason Bourne Who would play him? No idea... There's great British actors who look the part (tall, dark haired blue eyed caucasian male) - Henry Cavill (he was good in "Man of U.N.C.L.E.) - Sam Heughan (just dye his hair) - Luke Evans - Michael Fassbender (looks like Bond from the Books) - Richard Madden

[@Tom_Hadler]

@@tatianaoliveira2191 lol Sean Connery in Goldeneye

[@furiousstudios4438]

@@tatianaoliveira2191”with the charisma and charm of Sean Connery (like in Goldeneye and Living Daylights) Brosnan: *am I a joke to you?* Dalton: *first time?*

[@vandolmatzis8146]

I am 57 years old and have seen every Bond film on the screen.Thanks for your review straight from the IId .Casino R was the last of the Bonds for me.Hang in there Film Threat.

[@speedracer1945]

Mine as well . I didnt like Mendes 007 films dunno about this film but go to theater

[@ravensthorne4631]

Same. Casino Royale was a breath of fresh air after DAD - and I had high hopes for the series. But from QOS onwards the films have been a mess.

[@Chuck777400]

You weren't born yet when most of the Connery films came out. How did you see every Bond on the big screen? Agree on Casino Royale.

[@vandolmatzis8146]

@@Chuck777400 My father would take us to a local place ,A roadhouse?that showed old movies,so I guess it was on a screen.Somehow I remember being scared in Diamonds are forever.Can remember the baddies were SouthAfrican.This was in the bad old days and I will always associate Bond with real danger.I do remember Thunderball in the cinema though.Sorry for the dates,long ago through the mists of time etc.Peace

[@Gamingnstuff131]

@@ravensthorne4631 they totally botched it after that. Casino Royale was a great reboot but they never capitalized on it’s full potential since. Rushing Quantum Of Solace into production during a writer’s strike was a huge mistake and started the deterioration of this reboot. Skyfall was probably the closest they came to another good movie in this era and they could’ve made stand alone movies after that but they totally ruined things forcing these movies together. They don’t fit together. They spent 15 years spinning their wheels because they didn’t plan this reboot well at all. They need to return to basics and quit making these movies more than they are if they can’t back up these lofty ambitions and hire better writers who can create more consistently good scripts not reliant primarily on gimmicks.

[@ThatJohnKillion1970]

My condolences for those 3 hours you lost.

[@tomburroughes9834]

Brilliant review. Savage, and I totally agree with the cliche of "going rogue". Be nice if Bond turns up to the office, gets briefed on a baddie, goes after baddie, deals with various beautiful women, has a nifty car chase, blows up baddie's lair, and goes of into sunset with a hot woman, and with plenty of un-PC one-liners to make us all have a giggle. It's not rocket science, Babs Broccoli..

[@queengreen007]

The point another reviewer made was exact: James Bond is about escapism and a male fantasy of jetting to exotic locals, meeting beautiful women and getting the bad guy. That's it! It's not complicated. Mess with the formula and hit the dirt as many that lay in the franchise graveyard. Star Trek, Star Wars, Superman etc... Go woke, Go broke. I saw the movie and it was sad bc I know it will be the last 007 movie I watched in a theater. I have not interest in a female 007. Notice how they switched the character set up from a man named James Bond, secret agent. To just 007. That's not what Ian Fleming was writing about. It was about a man with a name, a character...not a number.

[@kilroy920]

Very well said! I remember seeing my first James Bond as a kid and that’s exactly what it was. The good guy gets the bad guy and gets the win at the end of the day. Sure every Bond movie was like that but it’s what makes the movie.

[@pr-tj5by]

@@kilroy920 James Bond wasn't the most iconic character of that genre because he was brooding and gritty, it's because he was a suave, sophisticated, charismatic debonair who had an eye for the ladies over a period of 45 years, he was by far the coolest guy on the planet, then suddenly it all ended in 2006 He's turned into discount Jason Bourne and he's no longer the character that made him iconic, he's suddenly just another action movie character who falls in love with women every 10 minutes He's now nothing more than a generic action character with a cool name and heritage built on the backs of his predecessors

[@FelipeFritschF2]

@@kilroy920 the people demanding these changes hate these movies and won't watch them anyway. Perhaps most ironically of all, the all-important Chinese market avoids these elements altogether.

[@hlmitchel]

@@pr-tj5by Exactly! Everything you said! I'm so glad you didn't use the word "woke garbage," in your correct critique. The far right takes words that expose them (like black lives matter - all lives matter etc. etc) and attempts to reframe it with mocking, condescending pushback to eliminate its power. But yes, the new James Bond is now generic, and actually SENTIMENTAL!? Saying "I love you"? and has "KIDS"? And if it could get worse, he doesn't fight it out to the bitter end but GIVES UP! Blame the writer with 3 names Phoebe Waller-Bridge and the producer Barbara Broccoli for this mess.

[@pr-tj5by]

@@hlmitchel Daniel Craig is not James Bond, he's a normal action character like Jason Bourne, Bond used to be the guy that every guy wanted to be He fell in love with 2 women and left MI6 twice all in the space of 4 movies, What kind of James Bond is that..... Could you ever imagine Connery, Moore or Brosnan doing anything like that... If you want the Bond from the books then watch the Dalton or Craig Bond, he used to be a charming funny charismatic suave and sophisticated MI6 agent who pumped and dumped super models on his way to killing the bad guy and saving the world, If you don't have all these qualities then how can you possibly still be the Iconic James Bond that every guy wanted to be, it's a complete betrayal of the character Bond isn't an icon for being Joe average serious gritty secret agent with no humour, he was 2 hours of the embodiment of masculine style humour and womanizing Connery set the scene and it was continued through Moore and Brosnan, This is what separated a Classic James Bond from all other action movie characters and why every woman wanted him and everyone guy wanted to be him I love the Jason Bourne movies and have watched them all many times but if Bourne suddenly started chasing the women, developing a sense of humor or began being suave and sophisticated I'd be totally put off the character and that's why I was put off Craig fron the beginning It's why Classic James Bonds like Moore, Brosnan and Connery were Brilliant while Craig as I said previously is nothing more than a generic action character with a cool name and heritage built on the backs of his predecessors.

[@skakirask]

I just rewatched the Brosnan films and really enjoyed all of them (yes, even Die Another Day) for just being simple, fun spy adventure movies. Part of the appeal of the franchise is that new fans can jump in on pretty much any film and "get' it. Eon experimented with (and majorly bungled) the Marvel-style serialization during the Craig era, but still, his best films were the ones that were essentially standalones (Casino Royale and Skyfall), so Eon could do very well if they just reboot the franchise with Henry Cavill and go back to having Bond go on standalone adventures.

[@richardshields1488]

it s a shame babraa brocli has killed her dad s franchise i wonder what CUBBY brocli would make of it

[@AdamIsInTheGulag]

“A new black gay James Bond” it’s not even satirical at this point. The bond franchise was meant to be a reflection of the male fantasy. Cars. Women. Status. Action… Ever since quantum the franchise has been declining and no time to die felt like another depressive craig bond movie. They lost the heart of the franchise. It never took itself too seriously. And then you have writers like Pheobe Waller bridge inject their social politics into the script.. you get an awful result. And that’s not even taking into account the disastrous ending lol

[@hlmitchel]

A black James Bond isn't the problem, mate, but maybe you are? Don't feel dismissed because a BLACK DUDE, is a 007. It doesn't diminish white people. Relax. An alpha male like you doesn't feel threatened by black alpha males. Let women fight each other. Idris Elba is head and shoulders more charismatic than any of the possible, fanboy/fangirl contenders definitely including average wannabe Tom Hardy. I can't stand this new movie because they in essence made a GIRLIE FILM. A chick flick. Teary eyed James Bond saying "I love 30 times," a kid running around in the movie and then having the audacity to have one of the ultimate alpha males in pop culture DIE without even fighting it out to the end. James Bond giving up? That's the problem with this sissified, tele-novella. They even brought in a female writer to "soften James Bond up." Blame the chick with the 3 names, writer, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and writer Neal Purvis, and definitely the Producer Barbara Broccoli

[@richardsmith4187]

I agree and apparently "HM" doesn't like your view of what the Bond franchise was meant to be from the very start, always has been and should continue. BUT .... in these woke times I'm sure the franchise will be screwed up with all the current social views ????? I watched No time to die and gaged for 2 hours and 48 minutes.

[@AdamIsInTheGulag]

@@hlmitchel I find it funny that you say this to somebody who grew up reading classically black alpha characters growing up. I literally grew up with Blade, Luke Cage, spawn, cyborg, storm, Misty, Monica Ramebeau & Black panther. I could go on and on. Nobody is threatened by black male characters. The way you’re framing this is disingenuous and it’s low IQ. Taking classically white characters and giving them a race change to score social political points is lazy and frankly shows how creatively bankrupt Hollywood is. I wouldn’t have a problem if they made a ‘00’ movie and cast Idris Elba.. although I don’t think that would be successful. The pull of the franchise is James Bond (not the universe). If they make James Bond black, I won’t like it.. not because I don’t like black people or I’m threatened by them, however because it’s destroying the groundwork of flemings franchise. I would feel the same ire if they changed a classically black character to Asian or white. Don’t do it. Period. Make new characters or GTFO.

[@hlmitchel]

@@AdamIsInTheGulag Hey there "Adam." Ahhh, yes you're not racist, you have black friends right? You don't have a problem with a black James Bond, mind you, because you grew up reading (how did you say it...) "classically black alpha characters." My dude, sit back down and shut up. I don't argue with idiots. I don't want people to confuse me as one as well.

[@Earthtime3978]

The ONE thing that goes against everything in the universe is a story wherein James Bond actually dies. Yet, this sin was committed . Let independent film makers rise and return the true 007 to film.

[@XMyouth]

I agree. This movie was great until they slapped fans in the face. Why go through all these movies just to see him die? Not bond at all.

[@t7489]

The ONE!? How about him going into daddy mode and being rejected for sex? This movie was pure garbage.

[@Earthtime3978]

@@t7489 Death beats everything!

[@Earthtime3978]

@William Guzman that’s some convoluted shit you came up with

[@Earthtime3978]

@William Guzman I hear you . Still think the facelift idea is outrageous… as in ridiculously ineffective.

[@AvalonTracks]

Agreed. It's the end of an era. Not only they've killed Bond in No Time to Die but they literally killed the legend, the saga, the franchise. It was such a bad movie (poor script, poor direction) that I'm not going to bother to see who's going to be the next 007

[@PerfectTroy1]

It was all downhill after Casino Royale. Real fans want the "real" Bond, but society is too sensitive for that.

[@cockshield]

Sod society! Bond needs to shock people again.

[@thunderwarrior1759]

We should have known this movie was going to be bad..after the director said those “rapist” lines about Sean Connery’s. To me,this was the Last Jedi of the Bond series

[@Dr_LK]

ridiculous... jb deserved to retire and set off to the sunset with his family... he deserved it after all these years! and also jb must be a good feel movie with a hero that is beyond normal abilities... been watching bond since most of you have been alive, and this movie left me with a sour taste in my mouth... also the reasons and motivations of the villain not very clear... he could have been amazing but came through so limp... too many cooks (writers) spoil the broth :(

[@ieuanhunt552]

they should have ended like The Dark Knight Rises. Where they have a fake out death for James Bond then we get a post credit scene of him drinking coffee at a beautiful Italian cafe.

[@XMyouth]

I couldn't agree more. Poor writing.

[@afmoas]

i m sure they had considered an ending like this: sure, bond was infected with the nanobots programmed to kill madeline and his daughter upon touch. so he will never have them and had to send them away safe. but he also saves the world by getting the missiles to destroy the factory and somehow, as only bond could, escapes and lives to fight another day. this way it does not mess with the bond continuity and exim and might just pave the way for a future storyline in which a reunion w his family might just be possible. WHY DIDN'T THEY GO THIS WAY??

[@z-rex6068]

@@ieuanhunt552 Yeah that would’ve been great

[@mikedavis9130]

Last proper decent Bond film Goldeneye and that was a long time ago now.

[@gokhanersan8561]

Well said.

[@simonpayne8252]

Thats true.. but CR was pretty good despite Russian henchman bond

[@ivanivez7456]

@@simonpayne8252 Casino Royale is a brilliant film but it didn't feel like a Bond film. It felt more like Bourne

[@peterb.7448]

Grace Jones as May Day? Yes!!! Lasagna Lynch as 007? No thanx...

[@flynnjp19]

Before going in, I knew this was going to be the last Bond film I see in a theater, and turns out I was right, will never feel comfotable with the ending

[@rembo183]

This is the worst Bond film. I hated the ending, it made no sense, if the franchise is going to continue. A gay female Bond is probably next. I would like to see the classic James Bond return in the future. Sometimes if it’s not broken don’t fix it.

[@ivanivez7456]

I hate the ending too. They're gonna reboot with next actor

[@cinemike8207]

I agree that Ana de Armas was criminally under used. I know this review mentions that her character added nothing and I say that's only true because of how limited she was. In what little we do get of her though, I thought she was fantastic and that's the real problem. In just 10 minutes, her charming performance and chemistry with Bond out shined Lea Seydoux. I think Seydoux is a good actress but she just doesn't have the chemistry with Craig necessary to make me believe that he'd give up everything for her. Ana breathed some life into her sequence and it was just frustrating to get rid of her so soon when she could have been up there with the greatest Bond girls of all time.

[@NerdGirlUK]

I absolutely loved the Cuba section of the film with Ana. Paloma was my favourite character in it! I'd love to see her return. As a long time fan who has seen every Bond film multiple times I absolutely hated the ending. I will not be seeing it again.

[@cinemike8207]

@@NerdGirlUK Yeah unfortunately with the way that they ended this, I'm not sure if they can bring Ana de Armas back. From what I hear, it seems like they are rebooting the universe with a new Bond next time. I guess that doesn't mean that they can't use her again because Maud Adams was used twice, once in The Man With The Golden Gun and then again as Octopussy. Same thing with Joe Don Baker in The Living Daylights and then being brought back to play Wade in Goldeneye. Using the same actor has been done before in this series so there's always hope. I doubt though that it would be the same character and that's a shame. I really like Paloma as well. She kind of stole the show in her sequence. I'm a huge Bond fan too by the way and I marathon through all of the movies close to every year. So high five for us lol.

[@LukeLovesRose]

Skippable? I'd say that's an understatement when James Bond dies

[@hlmitchel]

Attention: This new Bond movie was SENTIMENTAL TRASH. Daniel Craig is very good in it. The Production is great. But....They hired a girl writer to SOFTEN BOND and let me tell you, THIS MOVIE IS HORRIBLE AND OVERLY SUGARY!!! It's A girlie film! Meant to sensitize Bond. It de-emasculated Bond and de-mystified him in all the wrong ways. This movie's last hour was no better than a day time tele-novella. I liked the new 007 woman, only because 1. SHE WAS CHARASMATIC 2.) WAS NOT A SCRAWNY, 95 pound white girl, scissor kicking her way around MEN TWICE HER SIZE. THIS GIRL WAS BEEFY. 3.) The movie didn't emphasize her. But What they did to Bond was absolutely despicable. NEWSFLASH: THEY KILLED HIM and HE DIDN'T EVEN PUT UP A FIGHT!!! The REAL BOND FIGHTS TILL THE END!!!! The PRODUCERS AND WRITERS SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH A CRIME. The limp waisted millennials that like this movie: Are beta males.

[@XMyouth]

Totally agree. This movie left me shocked and disappointed. Terrible writing by people who don't understand the essence of the character or were paid enough to assassinate him literally.

[@thetragicyouth]

"They hired a girl writer to SOFTEN BOND" - No, they didn't: they hired her to make the female characters stronger (as both Phoebe Waller Bridge and Lashana Lynch have pointed out in numerous interviews).

[@cockshield]

@@thetragicyouth Meh, there's been much stronger female characters before those two.

[@hlmitchel]

@@thetragicyouth You're not a fan of James Bond, you're just riding some kind of gossipy wave. No one needs to hear about your take on "female characters" in James Bond. Go watch "the View" if you want gossip, drama and sentimentality. Go watch a tele-novella or an American Rom com that you have a collection of (Don't you just love dreamy Hugh Grant? LOL. Says pent up, horny housewives.) So Please do everyone a favor and shut up. For once.

[@searchterminatorseed2301]

Casino Royale & QoS are both a step above the rest - they have a distinct gritty style and a cohesive story which isn’t forced or contrived.

[@ReligionOfSacrifice]

I have a top 300 favorite movies list, and only three of them before this one made the list, but I am not sure where to put this latest as I watched it with an autistic boy who had to go to the bathroom twice and he sits for awhile. What I do know is that it made the list and was better than the other two by Daniel Craig, but I am not sure if it beat "Goldeneye." 140) 007: Goldeneye (1995) 191) 007: Quantum of Solace (2008) 249) 007: Skyfall (2012) So what I can say is that Daniel Craig made the top 200 for sure. I think it is going to fall out above 140 and making this the best series of James Bond ever

[@Abeyratne]

My name is bond. Woke bond.

[@liamcoyle6458]

Malik is not a convincing villan.

[@RobertK1993]

I think he is more sinister then Blofeld and Silva.

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

To all my fellow Bond fans out there, remember one famous movie trope: “If they don’t show you the dead body, he could have still survived and not really be dead”! Maybe at the last moment, he jumped inside a refrigerator! INDY survived a nuclear blast this way, (Cringe)!! Speaking of cringe, prepare for Indiana Jones to receive the same treatment in his last movie!! Damn, Harrison Ford will have the record with TWO ICONIC characters killed off in remakes by shitty, woke movies! (And I thought “Crystal Skull” killed of that franchise)!

[@rogerdsmith]

Living in Texas as part of the great unwashed, we have a saying, “I’ve seen farm ponds that have better film on it.”

[@Apexjuha]

Seems like every new TV crime series has a strong hero woman and a weak man. We are being pushed to accept new values by the ”elite” who think they know better what is good for us. We are living the era of narratives. But, women will instinctively love masculine strong men and men will love beautiful cute women they can protect. Nobody dreams of feminist beta-men let alone wheezel like yes-men. Nobody dreams of Maggie Thatcher. She was a strong woman but most men dream of women who need protection, who are lovely to touch and look at, who love to take care of children and home. You can scream water is dry but the truth will not change.

[@cockshield]

So much truth here! When the wokerati call the classic, masculine white male "outdated". It isn't true, but they wish so hard that it was.

[@RobertoGaspar69]

Absolutely agree with you!! Everything on point! To me the movie starts to fall apart right after the opening action scene, and from there they are not able to put a great deal in character development. The main villain here should have more screen time and more dialogues and dwell more into his character and why he became what he is. The rest is a festival cliches out of time and totally stupid. They bought Spectre just to kill him in the most stupid way, The movie is devoid of soul, fun and spy plots. Bond is male fantasy about fast cars, shooting bad dudes and laid with gorgeous women! Exotic places and a lot of class. Simple as that. You cannot kill Bond. Also the black woman as 007 is a total waste, she doesn’t even have an action sequence where we could understand why she is a top secret agent and more importantly a 007. The end was brutal and show the lack of humor, grit and intelligent writing on the movie, Casino Royale was the good one from this tragic attempt of a saga. Gad had all the elements that made us fans. Connery still my favorite.

[@gwem1979]

You sir are an absolute delight. Wasting ana de amras is a crime isn’t it, especially as you point out she is portrayed in advertising as an important character. Like you i enjoyed casino royle and skyfall, can barely remember quantum of solace but i really disliked spectre and i had no interest in no time to die because skyfall is a good way to end craigs tenure as bond.

[@captainmzungu2505]

Most brilliant movie review evah. I love the not-looking-at-the-camera style. It gives it a “I’m on the couch at my therapist” look. Great job mate!

[@RoopaDudleyPaintings]

I am not white or a male but I feel EXACTLY the same way about the female characters as Batcho. I cannot believe that I waited almost two years to see this movie where James Bond DIES. wtf. I have always been a huge fan of this new Bond because my husband looks like his doppleganger and I find my husband really desirable. Anyway - it was boring and un James Bond like movie. Hardly any classic Bond music during the chase or smart one liners. No Casino scene. He drank BEER..wtf..everywhere he went he made a blunder. I mean the villain was more respectable to have let the baby go and died remaining behind when he could have simply fled and died doing what he truly believed in. I say it was a huge let down. I now appreciate Pierce Brosnan's 007 movies way more. He lived up to that Classic 007.

[@dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984]

The worse element, if you can call it that, was this notion of a Bond series having an over tiring story arc that just makes you want to yawn like a bored cow in a field munching on the cud and being milked continually until it's death. This film was re-edited for a good reason, and it shows in the film. Female 007 was a totally pointless side character in the new re-edited movie. But served a purpose to feed the agenda when the original film was being prepared for it's intial release. The only sole purpose of this film was to destroy the old Bond to bring in the new Bond, that will probably reflect the new values of gender neutrality. Heterosexuality will be the enemy of the new improved Bond. Sick and twisted, but that just reflects what's driving the corporations who help produce this screwy psychological mind bending shit.

[@MaMastoast]

I absolutely agree with your point about giving the Craig films some epic arc which is entirely personal to bond was a major flaw.. But I don't really think the female 007 was a significant issue in this movie at all... I mean we'll see where they go from here, but the film would not have been any better without her in it, she wasn't the problem.. the problem is that Bond is never allowed to be 007 to begin with in these movies. It's always some vendetta or personal quest.. Just let the man do his job. I was sitting in the last third of No time to Die, wondering why this was a bond movie to begin with.

[@stuartwebster829]

Great review…you nailed it,film is an over hyped shocker

[@kevinmatzke2299]

Just got home from the theatre. Almost fell asleep halfway through the movie and I love Bond omg! This woke stuff is more of the plot than James Bond. Very disappointed don’t go. I’ll be dead in another 20 years change it then. Can’t some things that work stay the same please? Fuck

[@NFawc]

Yep, 24 times over 60yrs the writers carefully and respectfully passed Bond and the canon on. BUT these writers decided THEY get to kill off Bond, thus pi$$ing over the legacy handed down to them A lazy arrogant cheap ending! Perfectly in keeping with current times!

[@mmoly-cj4bd]

Thanks for the review. At 64 I think I'll pass on this flick. Was a huge Bond fan but no longer. Couldn't sit through 2 hours and 42 minutes regardless. Can't wait for your review of Tom Cruise in Topgun Maverick when that flick comes out. I hate Tom Cruise and it appears they did some rewrites in that one as well. One can only hope he gets blown to bits as well.

[@dotsloops7486]

Don’t just skip it! Don’t see it please!!! Garbage movie that will just make you angry….terribly boring

[@gf2915]

It was rubbish. Bland, forgettable characters, no sense of danger or of fun. Everything put together professionally of course, but with no heart, no distinct personality. Made and acted by anonymous drones. Compare Malek's villain to Christopher Lee's for example.

[@richardravarino4161]

I HATE that they killed Bond. Yes, its shocking. Yes, it brings a finality to the Craig era... But what about the Connery, Moore, Lasanby, Dalton and Brosnan era. James Bond SURVIVED every previous incarnation. Allowing the next actor to play Bond without an asterisk. It truly is the Han Solo factor. Yeah, let's kill off Han and then introduce a movie where we kill off one of the biggest heroes of the franchise and then have him die cowardly - THEN, introduce a spinoff, that could become a whole line of spinoff movies, featuring the character we killed off!!! Hollywood is in REAL trouble when they start killing off our heroes. Our heroes deserve a certain form of immortality, because when you kill them off and keep going, telling more stories of them... Its kind of like there is something in our head that we just can't help, going "Why are you still telling stories of that loser?"

[@James-cn8lo]

Agreed, this movie had the potential to be top 10 WITHOUT THAT ENDING. But because of that ending, it's all for nothing

[@ivanivez7456]

It was Craig's idea for Bond to be killed. He's got such a big ego. It's like he was subliminally saying he's better than the previous actors and bigger than the franchise. He's an arrogant prick

[@aarondcruz3443]

You are giving off such strong INTJ vibes and I'm loving it! 😂😂😂 Thanks. Saved me the trouble of watching that movie..

[@renekauts8323]

The first 3 Daniel Craig movies were barely "tolerable" to me. And yes, Spectre(2015) & NTTD(2021) are the worst James Bond movies ever-ever-ever!!!

[@EthanKnight97]

James Bond just another iconic male character destroyed by modern Hollywood. Too much "toxic masculinity" for this brave new world.

[@NoosaHeads]

Don't waste your time. This is a "woke" Bond movie, with some angry, sullen, arrogant black woman playing 007 (yes, really). Bond has - apparently - fathered a child to the French love interest (Seydoux), who gets kidnapped by the pineapple complexion villain. (Played ridiculously and unconvincingly by Rami Malek) Bond gets killed in the end, by ordering a strike by British warships on the villains lair in the Russian/Japanese islands. (Where he is). I'm glad he got blown up. I was getting fed up with the social engineering in bond films. Apart from anything else, it was a confused story that goes way beyond "suspending your belief". This is the worst Bond movie by far and I wish I could get back the 2hrs 45 minutes I wasted, watching it. This is a seriously bad film.

[@ivanivez7456]

SPOILERS I didn't mind Bond fathering a child. Bond had a child in one of the Ian Fleming books. But Bond dying? That's a no from me

[@comeonman1100]

Bond made Craig. Craig didn't make Bond. Craig whined about doing the films. His reward? Creative control to satisfy his ego.

[@dirufanboy1971]

"No Time To Die." Bond: *Dies.*

[@LeonWick526]

Exactly. Can you spell fucked up?

[@CardiffOneOne]

@@LeonWick526 Probably can't spell "spoiler" either. 🙄

[@deziduke1]

They were telling us what they wanted to do to mankind. The dark side always has to let us know but not going to happen. God wins

[@adamskhan]

If the only thing left of your channel was this review and your little Imperial Walker, you'd still have more panache than the last 3 movies combined

[@KillingTimeWithNorman]

BEST review of this film I've seen yet.

[@hawkeye98]

Amen brother. Absolute shit show. Thanks to the me too and womens empowerment movements for f ing up a great franchise.

[@MG007.]

I consider "No Time to Die" to be non-existent so it will not be part of my collection. To me Spectre is the last 007 Film Daniel Craig did.

[@jeanettejohnson7315]

Spectre was boring.

[@MG007.]

@@jeanettejohnson7315 It's still better than this woke bullshit

[@Gamingnstuff131]

Skyfall was the last one he did for me. Spectre was also extremely disgraceful to this series.

[@deanchur]

You mentioned Q's line about "He'll be here soon", and how that can be easily dubbed out. How about Felix's character? Was he integral to the story? Having lived in China, I'm interested by the edits that happen in movies to appeal to the Chinese market. Future films won't cater to the Chinese audience so much (if at all) due to how risky China is becoming for foreign companies,, but NTTD was made before all that happened.

[@aumdeoli4902]

Perhaps it is because Ben Whishaw himself is gay, so they decided the character should be too.

[@brendan722002]

Spectre was the last James Bond movie in my view.

[@yulejbaylock7642]

Il go for skyfall masterpiece Ending

[@Onmysheet]

Ana De Armas's character is the best thing to come out of this movie. She was the best Bond girl we got since Vesper. After she leaves that's when the film derails, with predictable outcomes. It's not the directing it's the terrible story and writing.

[@ronmosely8355]

I think Mr Beene wrote the script.

[@francisolojo1351]

Why the call did they have to f**cking kill bond.

[@c123bthunderpig]

First time to visit your website, so glad I did, not only did you save me the ticket money, we can't tell the truth in the USA about how we feel. Only thing that might be satisfying is seeing the Aston Martin, and that's not worth almost a three hour wait., Based on trailers I've been frustrated with all the characters they threw into to this one and still didn't catch who the mother of Bonds daughter was. I'm an old Sean fan anyway, so I'm way behind the curve with this Craig Bond. With several tours in Vietnam , Seans Bond was not that fictional, we had similar gadgets and real bad guys.Craig's Bond was always melancholy. The two Red series were actually more entertaining I know you'd die watching the satire of the Flint movies and Avengers with Dean Martin - a bit juevenile but at the time fun. Thanks for saving me some money.

[@CarlosGomes-en6xx]

I don't even understand the point of the movie... I mean, there's not bottom storyline, specifically about the villain that reappears to Madeleine but for what?!...

[@gabriel0961]

There's no point. People are ignoring the lack of plot because director hide it behind smookescreen of drama.

[@Potomacstud]

Worst movie ...No it's time to die James Bond will return as the corpse who haunts you ..a paranormal genre

[@somerandomvertebrate9262]

There haven't been any Bond movies since the 1980's. The world has long since become too revolting for Bond to exist.

[@joerotchell2902]

King in the castle, king in the castle. I have a chair, I have a chair

[@joekauffman9690]

Qu: James Bond, it looks like you’ve got something to say, do you?? James Bond: yes I certainly do…… I have to go now, my homeworld needs me!! James Bond died when he was heading to his home planet, somebody told me not to watch this movie, don’t waste your time, he said the movie was a woke trainwreck and said it was the worst Bond movies he ever saw, he told me why did the movie sucked and explained to me what happens, he said this movie pushes a political agenda, he said the plot in this movie made no sense, the development and writing was rushed, had no heart, was very bad and they killed James Bond off, I was like, thanks for saving my hard earned money and my hours of my time, I had no interest seeing this movie anyway and I don’t deserve to be subjected to these terrible movies. I deserve better. I’ve stopped going to the movies ages ago, they stopped making movies that were entertaining, funny, scary, memorable or that, it’s no longer fun anymore, they try to push woke identity politics into their movies, they don’t deserve my money and patronage, thanks for doing this video

[@captainmzungu2505]

Batcho, Had to wait until today, November the 11th, for the last 007 to come out. I thought of your review while getting my popcorn and said to myself “why am I doing this?” Three elements ruined it for me…before the film even started no less: -There was an ad from the Queensland government (I’m in Queensland, Australia) to encourage people to get vaccinated. I felt like screaming: “A REAL PANDEMIC DOESNT NEED ADVERTISING.” -It was followed by one of these new Volvo ads, the ones pushing catastrophic global warming as a punchline. Like buying an electric car is good for the planet. When will people realise that electric cars are worse for the environment due to the mining of rare earth elements? -To top it all off, after the opening scene, Billie Eilish (the biggest woke globalist opportunist ever) started singing in the opening credit. I gave this three hour long bad film 30 minutes…then I walked out. An absolute waste of time.

[@thepolymathacademy4891]

Felix should have survived, but we think he is dead, and then at the end when we all think all is lost, felix comes in on some a team shizz and airs him out of that base.

[@samwoo86]

This is a big bummer hearing from you :( especially since the last bond film wasn’t all that good and the fact Rami Malek is one of favorite actors from Mr Robot :(((

[@frankb821]

Overall, the Craig era was a bleak, dour experiment in deconstructing a confused, wreck of a man. Basically, the antithesis of what Bond was created to be. It didn't help that Craig has the charisma of a basketball. It is clear that EON has no regard for the very fans whom they claim to cherish

[@Archetti62]

To say it's not an impressive series is a serious understatement! For me the fist problem was the casting of James Bond. And one of the many reasons that No Time to Die fails is that too many cooks (writers) spoil the broth and the main reason for this is that they gave the actor far too much power so he had a hand at sacking Danny Boyle and bringing in the woke SJW female writer to absolutely kill the script.

[@thetragicyouth]

"and bringing in the woke SJW female writer to absolutely kill the script." - that's just rightwing bullshit. She was brought in to flesh out the female characters and add some jokes, nothing more - both she, Craig and Lynch have repeatedly said so, yet you've all swallowed the rightwing anti-woke idiocy and regurgitate it obediently.

[@Archetti62]

@@thetragicyouth Yep tragic! Your type just can't stand anyone with an opinion that goes against your fatuous beliefs. Thank God it's just for now.

[@Abeyratne]

I had a bad feeling when Daniel Craig was casted as bond. Especially when they were goning to reboot it.

[@diogocatalano9557]

Craig is a henchman pretending to be James Bond. Amazingly lots of people accepted this bad joke.

[@Abeyratne]

@@diogocatalano9557 He and his movies are are not pleasant. Made for another segment of people..Casino Royale was okay. Others were shit.

[@diogocatalano9557]

@@Abeyratne I hated Casino Royale also. Boring, pretensious and stupid. Craig is disgusting as Bond.

[@lonehunter4213]

Thamks for your review!.. "I'm not going to bother with this film"

[@ducky63]

You don’t ‘have’ to review anything.

[@erikdolnack2737]

I still haven't seen the new James Bond movie, "No Time to Die". I don't even know if I will? I kinda' don't care. I am so fed up with woke entertainment today. Old movies from the past are always a million times better than today's politically-correct Me Too garbage. Daniel Craig is my least favorite Bond actor.

[@DTDA84]

All of the people who have reviewed this film seem to all have the same things in common * Monotone Voice * Sat in front of some form of Sci-Fi/Comic Book Action Figure in a bedroom or spare room that definitely has a single bed with unwashed bedsheets. * Some angry/whiny rant featuring repetitive combinations of the words "Woke, Woman, Black, Gay, Progressive"

[@anthonylynch4737]

Can't watch it here in Melbourne Australia here yet it sucks.

[@stuartwebster829]

Luck you…the film sucks!

[@anthonylynch4737]

@@stuartwebster829 Bummer for Love Craig as Bond !

[@ottohonkala6861]

It seems like they had the film done.....and then the pandemic came and they started re-editing......it's very bizarre editing.....nitpicking a few unimportant scenes and memories, and completely abandoning most other plot twists....its very disjointed.

[@triplr3777]

I can't watch it because of rami malek. He looks cringe

[@KEMET1971]

Rami knew it was Bond's kid

[@theproject568]

I have to say that I like your style of critique, as it’s blunt and not filled with SJW propaganda bullshit. I agree wholeheartedly about this movie, particularly as to the direction of the franchise in the future. The James Bond character is just one more victim in a long line of targets for the woketard, liberal pansies. A lot of people might take your statement about the “gay, black female” as a joke, but where are the limits with anything anymore? How far down the road is the moment when they stick Bond’s ass in a dress instead of a tuxedo for the next dinner party scene and have him flirt with the male guests? Looking at this film from a broader perspective, it’s actually pretty frightening to see how it embodies the changing values of society and the world, definitely not for the better. Nothing is sacred or honorable in Hollywood or films anymore. Damned be the person who rises up and speaks out against it, as they, as you stated, will be branded a racist or some other card-playing label utilized by the woketards. Seeing as how Bond was slowly becoming more and more emasculated, they probably did him a favor by killing him off. God only knows what the hell he would be like in the next few films, had this rendition of the character survived. Great review and thanks for speaking it like it is. I also found Ana de Armas to be quite gorgeous and was sad to see her small bit of a role end so soon. Oh gracious me, here I am a straight, White male, professing my attraction for a female. I sure hope that didn’t ruffle any woketard feathers.

[@dy7an45]

Going to watch it Friday, hopefully I like it. Once again great video!

[@thebocaphotographer]

YOU NAILED IT

[@nicks1451]

As a gay man, I can’t tell you how insulting it is to be represented by the token gay character. I’m not a fucking check mark on some pencil-pusher’s diversity quota clipboard. I’m a human being. If I’m not an integral part of a story, I’m okay not being in it. If you want to add me, well thank you. I appreciate your love, but please make me and who I am matter to the story. It’s that simple.

[@Itchieban1Ebony]

You know this is the first time this has ever happened to me in a James Bond film ( and I hope it's the last ) But I fell a sleep on this James Bond film ! , who falls to sleep on a James Bond film ? Now I have to ask myself a question ? , was it DC and this soap opera way of playing Bond for 5 films , or is it me , well the only way to tell is when and if there is a new JB . He's dead , but : ""James Bond will return " I don't think I care anymore .

[@pr-tj5by]

In my opinion Daniel Craig is not James Bond, he's a normal action character like Jason Bourne, Bond used to be the guy that every guy wanted to be He fell in love with 2 women and left MI6 twice all in the space of 4 movies.... What kind of James Bond is that..... Could you ever imagine Connery, Moore or Brosnan doing anything like that... If you want the Bond from the books then watch the Dalton or Craig Bond, he used to be a charismatic suave and sophisticated bebonair with an eye for the ladies who killed the bad guy and saved the world, If you don't have all these qualities then how can you possibly still be James Bond anymore.... Bond isn't an icon for being Joe average gritty secret agent with no humor Connery set the scene and it was continued through Moore and Brosnan, This is what separated him from all other action movie characters and why every woman wanted him and everyone guy wanted to be him I love the Bourne movies and have watched them all many times but if Bourne suddenly started chasing the women, developing a sense of humor or began being suave and sophisticated I'd be totally put off the character and that's why I was put off Craig fron the beginning It's why Moore, Brosnan and Connery were brilliant and Craig is nothing more than a generic action character with a cool name and heritage built on the backs of his predecessors

[@ivanivez7456]

I agree. The Craig films feel more like Jason Bourne than the James Bond we know and love. I hope with Craig's successor they make the first Bond film since 2002. Even the Kingsman films feel more like Bond than Craig's ones

[@pr-tj5by]

@@ivanivez7456 Craig's Bond was still tortured over a girl he met for 2 weeks 15 years ago (ridiculous for James Bond), he became Iconic because he was a charming, funny, suave, sophisticated, charismatic playboy MI6 agent who pumped and dumped super models on his way to saving the world over a period of 45 years, he didn't resign from MI6 like Craig and Dalton did (at least Dalton resigned over revenge instead of falling in love like a damp squid) and he was by far the coolest guy on the planet, then suddenly it all ended in 2006, the last 5 (so called Bond films) were nothing more than a running soap opera You can't be the coolest guy on the planet if you're always miserable and keep resigning all the time cos you keep falling in love Bond died the day Brosnan handed in his Walther PPK & LTK

[@ivanivez7456]

@@pr-tj5by I agree. Tbh I blame the producers. When Craig was cast in the role they shyed away from the Bond formula and took too much influence from the Bourne films. Bare in mind the first Bourne film was released the same year as Die Another Day in 2002. As a result the Bond franchise lost it's identity in the Craig era. Bond was never meant to be dark and realistic. That's what the Bourne films are for. I hope with the next actor they make the Bond films fun again. 2015's Kingsman: The Secret Service proved that a Roger Moore Bond film still works in the 21st century so there's no excuse.

[@pr-tj5by]

@@ivanivez7456 Yeah I agree, I love the Bourne movies but it's a completely different character and if you try to copy it then you just come off as a cheap rip off Personally I think the only time he was good was the first hour of Spectre where he tried to go back to Classic Bond but he ruined it by falling in love AGAIN lol

[@hyrot1]

"Too Lame to Cry"

[@mercenaryknight5419]

I loved Casino Royale and Skyfall and quite enjoyed Spectre. Quantum Of Solace and this, nope. As far as I am concerned Spectre (2015) was the ending to the Daniel Craig 007 era. Also I personally see the ending of Spectre as James doing what he said he would do earlier and get Madeleine out of town which is the most James Bond 007 thing to do. I just do not see them making it together.

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

Rami is a good actor. I’ve heard some complain his acting was bad, but he was given very little to work with, and was following the director’s version of how to play it! Instead, this movie focused more on melodramatic soap opera, rather than creating an interesting villain, another flaw of this movie! It still might not have “saved” it, but would have made it better if Safin had more scenes and more developed character!

[@thejamesbondshow9754]

You're bloody hilarious😂😂😂😂😂

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Worst Bond film ever.

[@taki384]

I Think the producer Barbara Broccoli was so much in love with Daniel Craig that she sacrificed the fans to give her guy Daniel the best Goodbye but she just blew up the JB. fans too! so will the next JB.007 be Agent Rupaul ! or maybe there will be another Casino Royal with Woody Allen as JB. or bring in John Wick.

[@tdvols]

I totally agree!! I have already renamed this to No Time To Watch!! pathetic what they did to this film!!!!Felix dies!Bond dies! And Q is Gay !! The Villain was abysmal!!!What a script!!

[@jorgereyna1796]

Great review man, I'm going to take your advice and skip this

[@peternixon4408]

I thought it was OK, but agree with all of the criticisms here. I felt the villain was very poorly developed and the film was way too long. I thought the opening action was great, but too much was predictable. Also the casting of Hugh Dennis was weird and jars with the gritty nature.

[@peternixon4408]

In my opinion it's better than Spectre but not as good as Casino Royale.

[@batchoyt]

omg i completely forgot about him showing up

[@emperorpronddaltuma3674]

You left out that it was obvious Daniel Craig was drunk throughout most of this movie.

[@reuvengershon6625]

Please don't break that lovely AT- AT , or as we used to call them ATAT.

[@reuvengershon6625]

Subbed. Enjoyed your joint video on the Carrie trailer too.

[@batchoyt]

@@reuvengershon6625 thanks buddy, and don't worry, I'd never hurt the AT-AT

[@reuvengershon6625]

@@batchoyt Haha. Remnants of a better film making era.

[@baraka99]

Skyfall for me is the best Bond movie ever done. Subjective taste.

[@alfredvalrie5541]

I completely agree, and the reductive take “It’s the Dark Knight!” really really irks me.

[@ravensthorne4631]

Skyfail was the beginning of the end of the Bond franchise. That's when the series turned into a soap opera

[@danielyoung6630]

new 007 vs EQUALIZER ROBIN MCCALL. no question EQUALIZER BETTER!!!

[@thewalrusman2796]

I just saw it today and I was so glad you mirrored my thoughts on rami malek, he was a great choice for a villain, but he did nothing and wasn't fleshed out in the film

[@thomasgilsfeldt9003]

I completely agree with you - The Craig era, with the exception of Casino Royale, has made regular action movies out of an otherwise unique row of films, and apart from the name of the character,´they feature, they're more like Fast and the Furious or Mission Impossible with Bond as Vin Diesel. They are killing the franchise, and if the Craig era has taught us anything, it's that it takes more than an Aston Martin and some Martinis to make Bond, Bond.

[@ivanivez7456]

I agree. To me the Craig films feel more like Jason Bourne than the James Bond we know and love. I hope with Craig's successor they make the first Bond film since 2002. Even the Kingsman films feel more like Bond than the Craig's ones

[@Agent77X]

Love your review of NTTD!

[@German_1]

Let's rename it " kid gives a blistering review, but yet plays with star war toys on the air"

[@francisolojo1351]

Got to like the English'ness in this guy....

[@fiero11]

Yep, I lost almost all interest in Dr Who after David Tenent died and was replaced with the new Dr. Wasn't the same after that.

[@akaski777]

Worst JB film ever . I’m not a big fan of JB movies but at least are fun .. the director wants feeding to the sharks 🦈