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1983 James Bond film directed by Irvin Kershner

Never Say Never Once more
A poster at the top of which are the words "SEAN CONNERY as JAMES BOND in". Below this is a head and shoulders image of man in a dinner suit. Inset either side of him, are smaller scale depictions of two women, one blonde and one brunette. Underneath the picture are the words "NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN"

British picture palace affiche by Renato Casaro
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Story past
  • Kevin McClory
  • Jack Whittingham
  • Ian Fleming
Based on Thunderball
past Ian Fleming
Produced by Jack Schwartzman
Starring
  • Sean Connery
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Max von Sydow
  • Barbara Carrera
  • Kim Basinger
  • Bernie Casey
  • Alec McCowen
  • Edward Fox
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited past Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
visitor

Taliafilm
Distributed by
  • Warner Bros. (U.S.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.G.)[1]

Release dates
  • 7 October 1983 (1983-x-07) (U.S.)
  • 15 December 1983 (1983-12-fifteen) (U.M.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • Uk
  • United states
Language English
Budget $36 million
Box office $160 million[ii]

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film directed by Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story past Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 moving picture of the aforementioned name. Never Say Never Once again was not produced by Eon Productions, only by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The film was executive produced by Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory retained the filming rights of the novel following a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the role of Bond for the seventh and final time, marking his return to the character 12 years later Diamonds Are Forever. The motion picture'south title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that role again. As Connery was 52 at the fourth dimension of filming, although virtually three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an crumbling Bond who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of ii nuclear weapons past SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Espana, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never Again was released past Warner Bros. on 7 Oct 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the acting of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise equally more emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the day. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box role, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the aforementioned yr.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, K, orders Bail to a health clinic exterior London to go dorsum into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic chirapsia to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face is bandaged and after Chroma finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a machine which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Blush, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to impale him in the clinic gym, merely Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Chroma and her charge, a heroin-addicted United states Air Strength pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organization run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his correct heart to make it friction match the retinal pattern of the US President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American military base in England. While doing then, he replaces the dummy warheads of 2 AGM-86B cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Blush murders Petachi by causing his motorcar to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE's tracks.

Foreign Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 department, and Bond is tasked with tracking downward the missing weapons. Bond follows a lead to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the airplane pilot's sis, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'south pinnacle agent.

Bail is informed past Nigel Small-scale-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo'due south yacht is now heading for Nice, France. There, Bail joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a health and beauty centre where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an effect at a casino that evening. At the charity upshot, Largo and Bond play a three-D video game chosen Domination; the losing player of each turn receives a series of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. Afterward losing a few games, Bond ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her brother had been killed on Largo's orders. Bail returns to his villa to find Nicole killed past Blush. After a vehicle hunt on his Q-co-operative motorbike, Bail finds himself in an ambush and is eventually captured by Blush. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bond to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, and then uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

Bail and Leiter endeavour to board Largo'south motor yacht, the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to brand Largo jealous past kissing Domino in front of a two-fashion mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations in North Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bail after escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bail reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. After the first warhead is establish and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter's team and Largo's men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the 2nd warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Just every bit Largo tries to use a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother's death. Bond then defuses the nuclear flop underwater, saving the world. Bail retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never over again to be a secret agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number i, SPECTRE'due south senior-most agent. He is based on the character Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the caput of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera equally Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to chase down and kill Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger every bit Domino Petachi, sister of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the pic.
  • Bernie Casey every bit Felix Leiter, Bail'southward CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 department Quartermaster who bug specialised equipment to Bail.
  • Edward Play a joke on equally "Yard", Bail's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, K'due south secretarial assistant.
  • Rowan Atkinson equally Nigel Small-scale-Fawcett, Foreign Function representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon every bit Lady in Bahamas, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach as Lippe, a SPECTRE assassinator who tries to kill Bail at the clinic.
  • Anthony Sharp every bit Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders Thou to reactivate the Double-0 department.
  • Prunella Gee as Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy every bit Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF airplane pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's blood brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early on 1960s, post-obit the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[iii] Fleming had worked with contained producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond film, to be chosen Longitude 78 West,[4] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "e'er reluctant to let a good thought lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did non credit either McClory or Whittingham;[half-dozen] McClory and so took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not make whatsoever further version of the novel for a menstruation of ten years post-obit the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[viii]

In the mid-1970s McClory once more started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to piece of work on a script.[9] A lawsuit with Eon Productions ended in a ruling that McClory endemic the sole rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld, forcing Eon to remove them from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).[10] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting downwardly airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Liberty Island and Ellis Isle equally staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[10] The script ran into difficulties subsequently accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a moving picture based only on the novel Thunderball, and once once more the project was deferred.[8]

Towards the finish of the 1970s developments were reported on the project nether the name James Bond of the Secret Service,[8] simply when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that all the same surrounded the project[10] [three] he decided against using Deighton's script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in gild to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential contend with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to brand the screenplay "somewhere in the middle" between his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such every bit Three Days of the Condor.[10] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the piece of work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to piece of work on the script; however, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was nether a moral obligation to Eon'south Albert R. Broccoli.[xiii] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project afterwards Irvin Kershner was hired as manager and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the budget.[10] Connery then hired British television writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[xi] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script being theirs. This was considering of a restriction by the Writers Guild of America.[fourteen] Clement and La Frenais continued rewriting during the product, often altering it from day to twenty-four hours.[10]

The film underwent one concluding change in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond over again.[9] Connery's married woman, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Over again, referring to her husband'due south vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past list on the end credits "Title Never Say Never Once again by Micheline Connery". A last attempt by Fleming'south trustees to block the film was made in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[16]

Bandage and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the moving-picture show in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[17] although the project came to nothing because of the legal problems involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the merchandise printing, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play Thou and Richard Attenborough equally managing director.[9]

In 1978, the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame over again, potentially going head-to-head with the adjacent Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[eighteen] By 1980, with legal problems over again causing the project to founder,[19] Connery idea himself unlikely to play the part, as he stated in an interview in the Sun Express: "When I get-go worked on the script with Len I had no thought of really beingness in the film."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bail; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $three million ($eight meg in 2020 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a per centum of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bond'south advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Blackness has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland'south porter referring to Bond's car ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new M having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bail'south age even further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish line-fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the Due north Sea.[x] Connery'due south casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help go far shape for the production.[10]

For the principal villain in the flick, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[24] Through the same road came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he still retained his Eon-originated white cat in the film.[26] For the femme fatale, managing director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the name coming from one of the early on scripts of Thunderball.[14] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little bit of black widow and a little bit of praying mantis."[10] Carrera'southward performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her part in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met up-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor Business firm Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed after Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, proverb that every bit the Leiter part was never remembered by audiences, using a blackness Leiter might make him more than memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson'south character was added by Clement and La Frenais afterward the production had already started in guild to provide the film with a comic relief.[10] Edward Fox was cast as M in order to portray the character equally a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry building's budget cuts to regime services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, but after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[ten] Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Clandestine Service, Peter R. Chase, was approached to straight the motion-picture show but declined due to his previous piece of work with Eon.[30] Irvin Kershner, who had previously worked with Connery on A Fine Madness (1966), and had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 pic Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including offset assistant manager David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit managing director Mickey Moore and product designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[24] [31]

Filming [edit]

A large, sleek ship is moored at a quayside

The Kingdom 5KR which acted as Largo's send, the Flight Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[14] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also i of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was really historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo'due south transport, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, then owned by Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and chosen the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed by Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[10] Main photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands wellness spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [x] Most of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Production on the film was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant manager David Tomblin.[32] Manager Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a good businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer".[32] After the production ran out of coin, Schwartzman had to fund farther product out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would cost to make.[35] There was tension on gear up between Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism backside the scenes and was on tape as saying that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this film, bankrupt Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Evidence with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did non know his wrist was broken until over a decade afterward.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman'south beginning option to compose the score after being impressed with his piece of work on Star Trek Two: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the time, wound upward unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman later on claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bail composer John Barry was invited, but declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Once more was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his work equally a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the nearly disappointing feature of the moving picture".[24] Legrand also wrote the primary theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the University Award-winning vocal "The Windmills of Your Mind"[40] — and was performed past Lani Hall[24] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme vocal, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but the song — an unsolicited submission — was passed over, given Legrand's contractual obligations with the music.[42]

Legal substitutions [edit]

The outlines of row upon row of "007 007 007 007 007" fill the screen. A view of countryside, heavily obstructed can be seen in through the gaps.

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bail films were non present in Never Say Never Again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen total of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bail Theme" to use, although no endeavor was made to supply some other tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Once again opened on vii October 1983 in one,550 theatres grossing an October tape $10,958,157 over the four-mean solar day Columbus Day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening record of whatever James Bond film" up to that bespeak[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.9 million from June that year. The film had its United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland premiere at the Warner West Stop cinema in Leicester Square on 14 Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 million.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.five one thousand thousand.[46] [47] It was the first James Bond pic to be officially released in the Soviet Union, premiering in the summer of 1990 with a gala in Moscow.[48]

Warner Bros. released Never Say Never Once more on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[l] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, below), the company has released the moving-picture show on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Contemporary reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Again was broadly welcomed and praised past the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Once more was "ane of the better Bonds",[53] finding the picture "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is well-baked and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie also thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if annihilation, is more than highly-seasoned than ever every bit the fashionable resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a day older or thicker, and notwithstanding outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex and violence on the way".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer equally Maximillian Largo "very nigh make information technology all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying "The action's good, the photography splendid, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bail is again played by a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to exist a fan of Connery's Bail, proverb the film contains "the best Bond in the concern",[56] but nevertheless did not observe Never Say Never Again any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Dear".[56] Malcolm'south main issue with the film was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-office success and the endeavour to brand grapheme every bit important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed upwardly that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch but not surpassing information technology".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends up making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an hour-glass full of damp sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness every bit it approaches a confused climax in the Western farsi Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early part of the picture show was handled "with wit and manner",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple's script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the film and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer'due south character was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bail'southward career".[59] Schickel'south highest praise was saved for the render of Connery, observing "information technology is good to see Connery's grave stylishness in this role once more. It makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of 18-carat worldliness (and globe weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the picture show, saying she thought that Never Say Never Once more "has noticeably more than humor and character than the Bail films normally provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[sixty] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the role, observing that "in Never Say Never Once more, the formula is broadened to arrange an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the beak."[sixty] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, proverb that Never Say Never Once again is "one of the all-time James Bail adventure thrillers ever made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is likely to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and achieved."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the best acted Bond picture ever made, because information technology clearly surpasses any predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott, besides praised the film, saying that Never Say Never Once again "may exist the merely instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a first-rate managing director."[62] Co-ordinate to Scott, the director, with loftier-quality back up cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a bones "Bail plot", was different from other Bail films: "For one thing, there'southward more than of a human element in the movie, and information technology comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, equally Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add together, "in that location was never a Beatles reunion ... but here, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Skillful work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune as well gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the pic was "1 of the best 007 adventures ever made".[64]

Colin Greenland reviewed Never Say Never Again for Imagine mag, and stated that "Never Say Never Over again is a complacent male sexist fantasy, where women can exist only femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is non an Eon-produced motion picture, it has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967'south Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again "be exterior the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just as they're absent from MGM'southward megabox. But take my word for it; they're both pretty awful".[66] Retrospective reviews of the movie remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged 70% of the reviews as positive, with an average rating of 5.60/ten. The site's critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bail brand Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is still more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Once again 16th amid all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the moving-picture show has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating more often than not favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film three of a possible 5 stars, observing that "Connery was maybe wise to call it quits the first fourth dimension circular".[seventy] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of x, claiming that the picture "is more miss than hit".[71] The review too idea that the motion picture was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bond existence Bail".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Once more every bit the ninth best Bond film to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter idea the film "is successful just equally a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even by his prime, Connery proves that nobody does it meliorate".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a moving picture which has "a hokey, jokey feel, [it] is possibly the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it'due south a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the film makers couldn't offer him something ameliorate than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was swell to see Sean Connery return as James Bond later on a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting cast was good, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the most complex of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary also wrote that the "film is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would exist ane of the best Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When volition filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't work considering viewers unremarkably tin can't tell the hero and villain autonomously and they know doubles are being used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Again was intended to start a series of Bond films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bond, with McClory announcing the side by side planned movie S.P.E.C.T.R.East in a February 1984 event of Screen International.[75] When Connery appear that he would not reprise his role as Bond in another movie produced by Schwartzman iii weeks before the deadline to purchase the rights to another flick for $five million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another film without a bargain from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory appear plans to make another adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 Advertisement, but the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory'southward rights for an undisclosed amount,[four] and subsequently announced that information technology intended to make a series of Bond films, every bit the company as well held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This move prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-courtroom, forcing Sony to surrender all claims on Bail; McClory still claimed he would proceed with some other Bond flick,[79] and continued his case against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 Baronial 2001 the court rejected McClory's adapt.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM'southward acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical film adaptation of that novel the aforementioned year with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Ultimately, McClory'due south heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the visitor to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the picture Spectre.

On iv December 1997, MGM announced that the visitor had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Again from Schwartzman's visitor Taliafilm.[82] [83] The company has since handled the release of both the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film.[84] [52]

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