Phoebe. Waller. Bridge. She's been involved in the scripts for two iconic character, Indiana Jones and James Bond, and in both attempted to kill them off and have female replacements. Both epically failed.
It seems she’s very anti men and her influence is all over Bond and Barbara Broccoli. Mike Wilson is none the wiser frankly The whole film Was very rushed and the main characters were killed off …bloody stupid
PWB is a typical over-privileged Nepo baby. She got work because her family is already fabulously wealthy. But she thinks that she earned it and therefore real lead characters should be like her. It's a typical self-insert by someone who doesn't know real people or how they think, and just wanted men to be replaced by 'strong female diverse leads" at every turn. Rubbish.
Eon painted themselves into a corner with this film. Killing Bond was the dumbest fucking move they could make and it looks like they haven't got a clue how to get out of the bind they find themselves in.
It's not a bind you just do another film with a different actor, 2006 made it clear Daniel Craig was a reboot bond, they've not done the soft but impossible timeline thing since Die Another Day. Daniel Craig bond became double o seven in Casino Royal and died in No Time to Die, the next bond might be another reboot (I hope it isn't) or he might just show up completing a new mission with aplomb goes to see M for his next mission and does that with zero explanation. it's only you bloody geeks that cry about it.
@ivanivez7456 This is why some Bond fans are pissed they killed him off. Unless they say it was a really bad dream and Bond is still strapped to Blofeld's torture chair in SPECTRE with those drills messing up his cognitive ability. Or he didn't really die and the missiles blew him in the ocean? But yea they wrote themself in a bind
I'll tell you what went wrong, Broccoli given too much power and influence to Craig, waiting till HE was ready to shoot the next movie, and allowing the character to be killed off.
Bond didn’t have to die. Could’ve just retired. He looked old and tired anyway. Would’ve been good to pass on the baton and maybe even have Craig do a cameo in the new film congratulating the new Bond
Amazon needs to find a way to get rid of her. It annoys me to no end that they lost Nolan because she won't give up the reigns. NTTD has shown that EON is creatively bankrupt and needs to be shoved aside.
James Bond died CRYING and holding a dolly named "Dou Dou." Humiliating. Now some unsolicited, but respectful advice for Dr. Reel: the AI voice narrator of this video is terrible. Use your own voice. TH-cam is about authenticity.
Bruh you hate yourself lol this movie was great I just watched it and I've seen em all. Every single one. Guess what? It's the best one and y'all will be eating your words in a couple years when you go back and watch it again
The could simply show the Russians or Chinese getting first to the island,being a military base bond could have fallen it to a hard fox hole , The Russians or Chinese find him, dig him out save his life, place bond in isolation, And find a way of controlling the nano bot virus, they carry out plastic surgery as bond was burned ,And while he is imprisoned,He escapes, And start getting flash backs to his memory, result bond did not die , has a new face, And the Russians or Chinese have gain access to the nano bot virus , cue start of new bond 🤔🙉🙈🙊
@@DrReelTV Originally Danny Boyle (Director) was signed on to the film back in 2016, and in his script James Bond , was to die, however the way his charter died , would have been very different to how it ended in No Time To Die , it's one of the few things not removed from Danny Boyles original script. Development on the film began in 2016. Danny Boyle was originally attached to direct and co-write the screenplay with John Hodge. Both left in August 2018 due to creative differences, and Fukunaga was announced as Boyle's replacement one month later.
^^This^^ it was too long, No sense of humor, she was never happy in Spectre or NTTD. Watching 007 should be fun, not a chore. I will also say they take way too long to make these. Cruise is bangin out Missions every year - year and a half, that are more entertaining and fun to watch.
The problems began when Craig was cast, and the Bond series changed from being escapist entertainment to serious spy drama. Craig does not have the charm and charisma of his predecessors. He looks more like a bouncer at a nightclub than a spy. And he should NEVER have been allowed to kill 007 off. It might be years before a new Bond film is made.
Couldn’t agree more Babs staunchly defended her decision to cast Craig . It was abit like Brexit either you loved him or were greatly disappointed in his casting. I simply don’t see Bond in any of his films !
@@danielsiljeholm well it could work, as I've always seen Craigs bond as nothing more than a glorified wannabe 007, where he actually acts far more like 006, and it be easy enough to imagine it being a dream where bond wonders how 006 would have faired in his place and continued on with his life
Agree with everything in this. Movie was great until the opening credits, then the wheels came off. Spectre was the ideal send off for Craig. They should have recast after that.
It simply demonstrated that EON and all involved really didn't understand the original James Bond character that Ian Fleming created or the Bond that audiences love.
The issue I had with Craig movies is that they took themselves a bit too seriously and tried too hard to create linkages between them all. The greatness of bond comes from being able to pick them up at any stage and watch them with the most basic understanding. Just watched thunderball for the first time in a while today. It is still a great movie
I liked that Craig brought a more realistic, gritty bond who’s more vulnerable and human. They explored a bit of his psyche with him coping with vesper’s death etc. He has the physicality and the fights are good. The writing for his character isn’t exactly bad but the movie itself like the plot is kinda meh. And I feel like Craig looks too much of a brute than a smooth charming spy
Craig was a Bond for the generation at that time, and he was great. His action needed to be competitive with other films happening at that time. But yes your point about linking storylines between films is risky because you are only then catering for the people that watched the one previously. Bond films do need to be more standalone, and there's a lot that can learned from Craig movies. Loved Casino Royale and Skyfall, watched them many times. Let's see what the future holds
Ana was amazing. Her chemistry with Craig was amazing. That part of the movie was truly 007. But alas we will never see Ana again as she has drifted into John Wick world where I think she will be astounding
@DrReelTV That is sad, I was hoping she would return in future Bond films, but what with killing Bond in NTTD it is probable the whole Craig time-line will wind up being treated as a separate universe and just ignored in the following films.
Anna De Armas was by far the best thing in the film, far too good to be allowed to stay !!! The next film should completely ignore this dogs dinner of a film and invisible plot - all except for Anna - who should surely be invited back to play a starring role, an obvious choice as a partner for the next generation Bond and the return of panache, sex appeal and humour. I won’t hold my breath.
James Bond has always been about escapism, alpha male, beautiful woman, glamour and an evil villain. Ok, no real problem with bringing it into the 21st century, but when you have try hard black women who add nothing to the plot except ticking a box, you know you have a problem. For me it took away everything JB is and should be.
The woke see Bond as classic “toxic masculinity.” “Male, pale, and stale.” They destroy everything they touch. But hey, who cares what about the “Bond fans.”
Its the same problem Disney is having with "updating" their classic movies. The core of those stories do not work with "modern" movie making ideals. Just leave them alone. Make something new. Elsa did it, and Inside Out, and The Taming of The Dragons, and Moanna, and a dozen others. You try to make old stories modern all you do is ruin the old stories. If they are outdated, stop telling them. If they are timeless, just make them good. Trying to turn Snow White into a boss bitch feminist doesnt make Snow White good, it makes feminists stupid.
I walked out after about 15 minutes. I ended up seeing it on free Tv. Once was enough. When Bond is blown off his feet by the bomb at Vespa's grave should have been the ending ... They lost it with the writing & that's getting PW Bridge in. Her style of writing stands out rather than blends in because of diversity ticking - they didn't have a clear idea of what they were doing and they were trying to shoehorn a theme through the Craig movies as if they are doing television. It worked with Casino & QoS because it felt like one story over the two films.
Craig decided he was the greatest bond ever and couldn't be replaced and decided he could kill off the character by being a producer. Absolute ego trip. I find his bond films unmemorable after Casino Royale.
It’s okay if you think that but let’s not pretend like 007 films before Casino Royale weren’t on average objectively worse, and in many cases just pure trash. At worst Craigs Bond films were boring (Quantum of solace, Spectre), at worst Brosnan and Roger Moore’s Bond films were pure dog sh**.
@@BiggerBadderBrian I had to watch them to figure out that pre-Daniel Craig bond films sucked, didn’t I? How can I have an opinion on something I’ve not watched?
I'm so sick of the "slashing wrists" quote. It was taken out of context. Daniel Craig was asked if he was ready to do the next film immediately after finishing Spectre. He said it jokingly... he later compared it to asking a woman immediately after giving birth if she's ready to have another baby. He was exhausted after finishing Spectre.
This is true, so I never give him any crap for that quote. I would've said the same thing under similar circumstances. But I did otherwise get the sense that Craig didn't want the role in the first place (Barbara Broccoli basically wouldn't take no for an answer) and I don't get the sense he ever enjoyed it while he was there. I don't care who the next Bond is, so long as that guy wants the job.
Yeah, recently when asked who he thinks will be the next Bond he's like "I don't care" He never cared for the role lmao. And he's the worst Bond ever too. He looks like a Bond villain instead. And he should count his blessings tbh. What did he do before Bond?drama films and some small parts in movies like Road to Perdition or Tomb Raider? I gotta be honest i didn't know the guy when he was announced. It was only later that i randomly recognized him in some older films like The Jacket.
Craig and Seydoux's chemistry was never there. Not like the strong 1 Craig had with Eva Green which was impressive. I thought the movie was too WOKE and it effeced Bond's usefulness as a character.
It wasn't THAT woke. It would've been woke had Nomi said "the world's moved on from straight white men commander" Or Q said "He's coming over in 20 minutes... yes James I said he, do you have a problem with that you bigoted relic?"
It’s ultimately just the unfortunate hole that the Craig era dug itself into. Every other Bond actor added new things to the series without destroying the core of the character, but because of how Bourne-style spy stories were becoming popular Craig reset the character and made his world completely different. It was fine at first, but by the end we have a dead Bond, a dead M, a Q and Moneypenny who feel almost nothing like their classic selves, a blown up MI6 building and Blofeld reducing to a boring man who’s apparently Bond’s brother. It would’ve been fine at first, but post Skyfall it seems like the writers really struggled to make the films enjoyable because they had done so much to the very ethos of Bond.
If I had to wait for my star to heal and then hear how reluctant he was to return, I would have started the talent search the next day. The king is dead, long live the king.
One of the biggest issues I noticed with the film is how it tried to be “different” but ended up following a lot of trends that were becoming popular. The aging hero having a daughter to continue his legacy in some form, ending with his death. Avengers Endgame did it with Iron Man and before that Logan did it, and both did it better and more natural. Sure that scenario has been done before, but in Logan the death felt real, and the entire film built up to that moment. In No Time to Die they went in with the intention of killing Bond, but by the time they got there they had no idea how to make it work without a bunch of contrived plot points. The second Craig stated that he was going to do one more and be done, I knew they were going to kill him off. If anything, keeping him alive would have been more of a surprise. Another issue is that they were so concerned with making the film the Progressive Bond that the characters felt one dimensional and hollow. Nomi could have been an interesting character that brought energy and excitement to the story, but Phoebe Waller Bridge and the director turned her into a “black bitch” who is antagonistic to the main hero simply to be antagonistic. She had very little personality outside of “screw you I’m the captain now”. She was a mouth piece of what a rich, woke white woman thinks a strong black woman should be. It was very disingenuous. Paloma was a fun character, but she was wasted. She could have taken the place of Nomi as the younger partner for Bond that could take over, or vice versa. Also, Madeline is such a dull, underwhelming character, and her and Bond have very little chemistry. She was clearly brought back because the producers were more interested in breaking tradition by having the main Bond girl from the previous movie coming back. Her dying in the beginning at the site of Vesper’s grave would be the perfect straw that breaks Bond. Seeing a broken Bond go from self destructive drunk to a revenge driven psycho, to finally making the ultimate sacrifice for the greater good would have been a powerful ending to the Craig saga. And Safin as the big bad…. He was such a poorly realized character.
The fact that killing Bond was Craig’s idea shows that he’s got a big ego. He was subliminally saying he’s bigger than the previous actors and bigger than the franchise. He still could’ve done No Time to Die without killing Bond. Still can’t believe the producers agreed with Craig to kill Bond🤦🏾♂️
Another thing I really hated was Blofeld's death... Many fans ( myself included ) had been wondering for years if the character would ever return and surprise surprise he does come back and played by Christopher Waltz no less 🙂🙂 and in the next movie he dies...What the f..k ??
@@jeromewagschal9485 The way they tried to shoehorn Blofeld into Bond’s childhood was so trite. And his death was so rushed. He essentially died off screen. I was also excited to see how Spectre would factor in to the series as well.
Absolutely spot on.....I thought Nomi was pointless other than to be antagonistic.....they could have had her save Bond at the end at least, after he saves the day, even the eulogy at the end was very poorly done....
Aside from the over bloated emoting between Bond and What’s-Her-name toward the end of the film, to solve the “Nano-bots” crap issue - all Bond needed to do was have a blood transfusion.
All of Craig's films had that heavy-handed sentimentality; as soon as Vesper dies, he's building another Very Strong Meaningful Relationship with another woman and dammit, we the audience simply don't care give us a good villain with a good plot already. We never got it from this guy's series of films.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there a moment when M says that, given time, he'd be able to kill the nanobots ? Or maybe it was just wishful thinking... Anyway I'm sure he'd be able to do that...
Daniel Craig had 2 good Bond films. But overall it was the least satisfying series of any of the actors. Craig's Bond never felt like he wanted the job of 007. Bond quit or went rogue in every single of his Craig's films. Connery & Moore's Bonds may not have always liked their being a spy, but they did what needed to be done & made the best of it. And if James Bond can't enjoy the mission, the audience isn't going to enjoy it either. And now James Bond is dead and will remain dead until some time in the future another producing company decides to resurrect James Bond many years from now for a new generation. Producers Broccoli & Wilson won't be able to undo what they did.
Not one single stand alone Bond story from Craig either? Vesper bl00dy Lynd was in every story. And we never saw Bond at his peak. First two he was the new guy, next he was out of shape, then he was old, and finally he was retired.
'Waller bridge, that's what went wrong, her pro-women/woke-feminist ramblings are what infected this film and Indiana Jones DoD, that's my " guess " anyway ;)
I wonder if the franchise is on its last legs. Nothing lasts forever. I agree that killing Bond was a bit of a slap in the face to the fans. They really went out of their way to ensure there was no equivocation about Bond's death. While the franchise can just start again with a hard reboot, that, too, is against the franchise DNA. I suspect the next bond will not do well; the hardcore fans like me are getting older, and the world is moving on. The studio pandering to Craig may very well have killed the goose that laid the golden egg. Too bad. Bond, you will be missed.
Well I think you are right and wrong at the same time. Its not Bond that is the problem, its the idiots in charge of making and writing it now. And also in this last version the miserable plank in the role. He should have been done after Spectre, he only came back for the money. If you look at what the Impossible Mission films did over the last 20 years it proves that there is a huge audience for spy, thriller / action heros the same as always. Those M.I, films blew every single Craig era movie away. Why? They were fun, the stunts were better, the locations and they were never boring and always entertaining. That first Craig Bond film was so slow, so dull it was like watching paint dry. People raved about it, but I dont want to see a Bond film where the big highlight is him playing cards for half an hour!!! So what they need to do is leave it alone for a couple more years. Then do a recast and just go back to what Bond movies were, fun and thrill rides. Think when they reset it with Pierce Brosnan. Everyone said it was over, that it would not work in the modern world, and yet Goldeneye was a blast, was the most successful Bond film to that point and Brosnan was superb in the role. They need to cast a charismatic actor like him again, someone who will be glad to be there, and then write it into his contract that he has to keep his mouth shut off screen, and not air his own opinions and politics to drive fans away, but to only promote the role and be positive. You know, like actors used to do years ago....
It’s bad since the Mission Impossible has managed to keep going making good films that stay true to the originals and not being forced to tick off representation boxes. They ought to give the Bond series to new people, but we need someone who can maintain the quintessentially British feeling.
James Bond at its core should be fun. The super spy who beats all the odds. Pure escapism, memorable villains and clever gadgets. I think the DC era writers forgot that formula. Just ignore this increasingly boring story arc and introduce a new James Bond with the classic elements.
Cannot do that...far too interesting..must be a rainbow "they/them" of the new grey commie within ALL of us (so it seems)...plus..how about giving a D.E.I. lassie a go? It's about time since 1962...a D.E.I (perhaps in a wheelchair like a 007 Steven Hawkins!) That would be dramatic!!...and indeed thrilling..driving..or sitting, watching themselves as they/thems are being self driven in an electric Aston Martin (of course)...avoiding the pedestrians and sticking to the 05 mph speed limits so that 007 stays below the radar of "normal" public surveillance Sure to be a box office hit...GO FOR IT! You got it made.......
I thought all of Craig's Bond films were top notch until "No time to die." I'd already heard that Bond dies in the film and had imagine that it would be in a bloody, hand to hand scenario or really understated like a bullet to the back of his head from someone he trusted but I never expected the ridiculous ending we got. It had to be the most disappointing Bond film ever.
@@DrReelTV I went opening night too at my local cinema,leaving was like all the fans leaving a football match at the same time after your teams just been thrashed ..
@@DrReelTV I understand, I know other people who were not prepared and were gutted by the death of Bond. I believe that the characters death was a condition of Craig doing this movie but i think it was unnecessary and more than a little selfish on Craig's behalf.
After a lifetime of investing in a character, my first theatre experience was Man With The Golden Gun, I can safely say the franchise can go F*** itself. The absolute asinine decision to kill off Bond destroyed everything. So do we just expect to see continual Bond deaths throughout the franchise now? All I know is, I won't be watching it.
Well...They can try that if that's where they want the franchise to go...But at some point the lack of interest ( or pure disdain ) of the fans and the world at large would force them to re-evaluate their choices...
This film was hate fiction, plain and simple. The convoluted plot is proof - they had a classic Bond script and then they pasted their 'message' into it peacemeal until all they had was a collage of nonsense.
AND, the final assault on the island complex made me feel like I was watching a dumb-ass first-person video game stream. I hated that part because it was so boring despite the so-called thrill of it.
It was all too predictable after when they cut to the island. No bad guy with an island has ever survived. Not in XXX, Jurassic Park, Silva, the list goes on…
I said above it was stupid all the men lining up to be shot, no reason they'd only send Bond and the bird in. why not send the SAS in with bond part of the party how awesome would that have been
Well, he said he’d rather do anything than come back one last time and honestly, it’s a shame he didn’t stick that. He made a series of demands in order to acquiesce which included the idea for the ending and whilst that was a daft decision on behalf of the producers, I think one of them would have given Craig whatever he asked for and I personally think there was some clouded judgement in there. What we could have had, was a new start with a new Bond instead of what was offered up. Now it’s very tricky to come back and I’m not sure people would trust them again in terms of the safeguarding of an historic and beloved movie character. Whats to say the won’t kill the next one off after a couple of movies too and therefore, do people want to get so invested once again moving forward.
Excellent analysis. James Bond has always been a comic book movie. Really, a spy who always makes a point of telling everyone his name? No, you make a mistake when you try to take this guy too seriously.
Exactly, a "secret" agent who everybody knows, and also what his favorite drink is ? That's why I have no problem with films like Moonraker, the whole premise of cinematic Bond is non-sensical to begin with. That's why Moore is by far my favorite Bond, he completely understood how to play the character, tongue in cheek. I rarely re-watch non-Moore Bond films. And this is from someone who has seen every Bond film in the theatre since OHMSS.
The Daniel Craig Bond series should have ended with SPECTRE. At that point, Craig was clearly done with the role and said so. So to get him to do one last film, they offered him a ton of money and granted his very selfish request to kill off 007. I really don't think the Bond series can continue now with a new actor, be it Aaron-Taylor Johnson or whomever. James Bond is dead. Craig refused to do what all the previous Bond actors had done, passing on the Walther PBK to the next, new Bond actor. It was Craig's way of ensuring he would have the absolute last word on Bond.
You don't tug on Superman's cap, you spit into the wind, you pull the mask off that old lone ranger, and you don't kill James Bond. There was nothing right about this film right from the start and it never recovered. This video hit everything right on the head. For me, this was not what I wanted for the end of the Craig era, When I realised what was about to happen I actually got up and walked out of the theater and waited for my wife , just as I walked thought the doors into the lobby there were boos . Watching the people come out of the theater I wasn't the only one who felt this way, several people were saying it was an awful ending, one said there was no point in ever seeing another Bond film again he's dead.
A terrific essay. The injection of woke politics into the script, combined with the absence of any chemistry between Swann and Bond did it for me. Furthermore, a James Bond film is not supposed mimic a sappy family drama.
Easy: they hired the wrong actor to lead the series; then you give him (who openly hated the role) too much creative input and the producers (esp. Broccoli who loves DC for some reason) free rein and you're left with this turd pile of a franchise killer. All starts and stops with Broccoli and Craig.
Again Barbara B, was hoppening to get the big oscars, best picture, best script, best co-female lead, best actor nomi and wins, she did get none and the worst bondmovie ever becuse of woke and etc, and craig always wanted james bond to die, aldready in his second film, but barbara was obession over craig. and still is, that why we did not get a new bond after spectre or after this one now 5 years later
I hope the makers of James Bond realise that as a life long fan I will never watch anything related to this character again. I'm done with the modern bullshit. I have all the Bond films I like on Blu-ray anyways, so I'm good if I ever need a 007 fix.
Overly bloated, meandering story, somehow managed to make excellent actors (Rami Malek and Christoph Waltz) put in very boring performances, killed off an excellent Felix (Jeffrey Wright). Not much memorable about the film as a whole, Ana de Armas was probably the best thing.
@@DrReelTV i was anticipating a great closing of the series, with Carry Fukunaga directing it, i thought it couldn't go wrong. Instead its really an awkward piece of cinema where everything felt like a checklist of scenes. The death of Bond isn't earned in this movie. Wonder what Danny Boyle's movie would've be like. It was rumoured Bond would be mostly in captive in a Russian prison.
No offence to the woman but one Eva Green is worth ten Léa Seydoux in terms of raw draw power and box office (in fact the poor women just looks embarrassed to be involved in the whole farrago) hmm hmmm….. Poor James, he was robbed…
Indeed,Craig and Green had way more chemistry between them.The lack of any chemistry was obvious with Lea Seydoux it made many scenes in the films look wooden
I hated this film. Too long. Too boring. Even the title has been used in other films e.g. it was the American title for the 1958 movie 'Tank Force.' Why all the references to OHMSS ? And the reuse of the Aston Martin DB5 was pointless.
Trying to replace James Bond, with JANE Bond, halfway thru the film? The audience don’t go to the cinema to see that! There are male action heroes, and female action heroes.
Yep, trying to get a female 007 sample to see how audiences would react. That was utter cringe. Unnecessary. Pointless. And then they back-pedaled on it in the same movie. WTF
Brilliant analysis and spot on. Although I read somewhere that part of the multiple movie deal was an approved request from Daniel that he wanted Bond to die. He had far too much artistic input. His only 2 superb efforts were Casino and Skyfall.
I'd like to forget the majority of the Craig era. With the exception of Skyfall and Casino Royale I seldomly re visit his entries. Moore is my Bond huge fun entertainment. If you want a more serious Bond Dalton was the one who nailed it. Only watched NTTD twice, no reason for a third. Die another Day is still the worst Bond film in its lunacy but NTTD committed a sin of film making, boring and lost the point.
This was the worst Bond movie in my opinion. The plot was all over the place, hard to follow, characters with hardly backstories, and the worst villain. To top it, it turned very predictable and you could see that Bond was going to die.
A big issue with NTTD is Spectre. 1. They were Bond's dragon to slay, and what on earth was he doing about them in the 5 years following the PTS?! 2. Whatever happened to them having "people everywhere?".
The worst James Bond movie ever for so much of reasons,no chemistry between the two main leads,main Bond girl still boring from her appearance in Spectre,making main Bond girl so important even though she boring ,feminist agenda,Bond dying 😂😂😂,BLM propaganda,worst and I mean worst Bond villain ever that makes Dominic Green look like a top tier villain😂😂😂..Daniel Craig should have stopped at Skyfall
You obviously haven't seen the 2 worst bond flims ive seen ,the living daylights and licence to kill ,thouse were utter laughing bond flims ,i have the james bond boxset, but never watch them 2 flims lol 😆 😂🤣🤣🤣
Tbh I don't remember much from Living Daylights and Licence to Kill either. Lol. The problem with NTTD is too many chefs in the kitchen. They tried to please everyone and ended up confusing everyone. Craig is still one of our top two Bonds ever, but this last movie just seemed too forced
The only way No Time To Die can be rectified is to have the next movie showing Bond some how surviving the explosion. Perhaps one explosion weakened the floor around him causing it to collapse and allowing Bond to fall below. Unconscienced, he is found later by men from the ships which were arriving at the time of the attack. Through plastic surgery we are revealed to the new actor and perhaps a brainwashed plot to kill "M", as Ian Fleming wrote in his final book The Man with the Golden Gun. After the failed attempt from Bond, "M" sends Bond on a suicide mission. His reason is: If he survives it, then all sins forgiven. If he dies, he dies on the battlefield and not in prison. This was the beginning of Fleming's book and it could help bridge the ending of NTTD and Bond 26.
The family element I could handle. But I would have dangled that in front of him so he thinks he has a chance of having a family. Then I would have ripped them away from him. Leaving him with a sense of “Gotcha, no you don’t peanut 🥜. You’re no normal man. Your James Bond your life is espionage, vodka martinis shaken and not stirred, seduction, action, and fantasy. There’s no normal for you “. The problem with No Time to Die is really the ending. The ending should’ve been the reset to default Bond. So the next Bond actor can be his own interpretation of the character.
To this typical British man who watched all the Bonds and has been around since they started, it died when Pierce Brosnan finished. It became too hollywood for me! Killing of James Bond WTF, as you said JB ALWAYS survived that was the point 🤦♂
The irony of "James Bond will return" in the end credits of a film he dies in wasn't lost on me. I mirror much of the same sentiment you have. Whether it be to try a different creative direction or a somewhat "cultural agenda" driving the idea, the basic male escapism was almost entirely removed from the series, I feel to its detriment. I doubt any Bond fan would really enjoy watching a Bobd film where their favorite hero dies at the end.
This always felt like the Bond film made by committee, trying to balance placating the modern audience while still satisfying the core fans, and it didn't quite deliver on either front.
I couldn’t agree more with your assessment. I felt totally deflated after watching it. Killing Bond was a ridiculously short sighted decision. The whole movie was a buggers muddle and felt cobbled together by a committee.
Killing Bond was the dumbest thing to ever happen to the franchise......insanity that has killed the franchise until they reboot it in about 50 years time when most if us are gone and no one will remeber this mess.
I knew it was going to be bad when women reported they were crying leaving the cinema after watching this. I mean, when has anybody ever cried after seeing a Bond movie!? People should be exiting it talking about the stunts & big chases. But no, they went down the route of tugging on the heart strings. A truly terrible movie. I hated it. Phoebe Waller Bridge, you're talented, but this was not a genre you should've entered.
Good assessment. Wasting Spectre was the biggest issue I had with the movie, followed closely by the female 007 thing, but glad it was pushed aside. If they did that, then that would have definitely killed off Bond.
Bond never had to die and solving this kind of thing is what Q is for. What a terrible decision. This the outcome of having elements, only for the sake of diversity, woke, in movie development teams. Just ask Ubisoft what happened to them.
The reason why Skyfall was so successful was it felt like a traditional Bond film. Good story, excellent villain, gadgets, glamour and action. And they didn't try and squeeze it into some bloated overarching storyline - it works as a standalone film. Sure, they subsequently made the Silva character part of Spectre, but you could tell this was just tacked on to try and link all the Craig films, which was one of the many mistakes they made. I also think they made many last minute changes to the script - I wouldn't be surprised if Rami Malek was indeed meant to be Doctor No, but then decided to ditch this idea. Also why were the nano bots being farmed? Again I think this was a last minute change from some kind of virus, maybe done because of Covid? Such a shame, as there were elements in NTTD that were great, such as the Paloma character, and the Matera locations at the start, but overall it was a massive disapointment.
A key bedrock of Bond is that he is a survivor. He always finds a way to win-hence why the books, movies, and games were so enjoyable. No Time To Die destroyed that legacy for the sake of shock value. No Time To Die never needed to exist, Spectre wrapped things up just fine. As for the nanobot nonsense, for a franchise thats meant to be grounded in reality, it is odd that they insist they were incurable given the well-known treatments including EMPs. The writers were just THAT keen on killing Bond.
This film and Quantum of Solace break the biggest rule of Bond movies: Don't Be Boring. The story in this one was such a snoozefest despite the fact that it was the only Craig bond film that had something close to a classic Evil Villain with Evil Plan plot we haven't seen since Brosnan left the stage. Like so many of Craig's outings, at the end I just wanted to see the credits. That should NEVER happen while watching a Bond film.
EON must be full of idiots. They destroyed the franchise with this disaster of a movie. I must confess I liked the first Craig-movie. But after a while I liked him less and less as Bond. No humor, no wit, less gadgets, less clever comments and one-liners, less luxury, glamour and exotic scenes. The Craig-era Bond turned in to soulless action movies. Didn't feel like Bond anymore. When I read Craig would rather kill himself than play the role again, I got the feeling he has no respect for the character. He also said he would love to kill James Bond in the last movie. He got what he wanted. And for that I dislike him, and I rank him as "worst Bond ever".
I also hate the lazy journalism surrounding his Bond, calling him " the true interpretation of Fleming's Bond". Yes, he did a good job in Casino Royale 'cos he was working with source material, but after that I don't think he gave a solitary wank about playing him properly. See Skyfall in the art gallery. "What do you see?" The REAL Bond being an encyclopedic smart-arse would've said something like "The fighting Temaraire, played a key role in the battle of Trafalgar etc" NOT "a bloody big ship".
I think Skyfall was still great, maybe one of the best. They have messed it up with Spectre, when they tried to bind everything together in it was to rushed. An this hopeless mess... Well as many said it before, quite good action movie, but terrible Bond.
On the right I just noticed a thumbnail for a doco about the great Colin Chapman of Lotus car fame - my favourite race team. It's headed something like "Simplify Then Add Lightness" a Chapman design philosophy. Good advice for James Bond movie producers too I would have thought....
Another thing to question was why take Swann’s SUV to escape when he had his Q-equipped Aston? He knew the villains were coming, and the weapons and defensive equipment would have given all three of the characters a better chance. Because the SUV had room for a child seat doesn’t seem a compelling reason.
You cannot kill of the hero and resurrect him again! It didn't work for Endgame didn't work for Superman, didn't work for many characters all the way back to Dallas in the 70's. One would think producers would have figured it out by now, evoking the emotions of dealing with death, makes the separation very intense. We go home, we mourn, we get over it and carry on, that is natures way.
To be fair... I always thought it would be better that 'James Bond' is a secret agent name and number given to any new spy that fits the mould. Unfortunately it's a real name of a spy which leaves us a bit trapped when continuing movies with the same name but other actors. And the problem with the last 5 films has been that it's a linked storyline, so now people for the last almost 20 years associate only Daniel Craig as James Bond.
I agree with you. I totally hate this movie and not just the ending. The only scene i loved was Cuba. I wish when Madeline was put on that train she would have never been seen again and Paloma would have been the Bond girl for the rest of the movie.
Franchise with traditionally immortal main character and title at the same time - ok, let's kill him. What a genius way of cashing lucrative deal. Oh, Luke Skywalker died so why not 007
Daniel Craig made one good Bond movie Casino Royale, one middling Bond movie, Skyfall, and three terrible Bond movies, but they made a ton of money, so criticism has been muted
Daniel Craig was an excellent Bond with only two outstanding films. It’s a shame. I agree that you didn’t need Madeleine in the movie - AdA was outstanding. After 25 films, I was actually ok with Bond dying. I just wish the stakes were greater and his end was more heroic.
I never felt like rewatching any of the Craig's Bond movies. I did not watch the last one, having seen a trailer! But I would rewatch Dr No with pleasure!
"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic James Bond. xxx will be that man. Better than he was before. Better... stronger... faster"
@@DrReelTVYep, for me, it was Brosnan in GoldenEye. It released during my first year of college along with the legendary N64 game. I was all in on Bond and have been ever since.
@@Salsa_Sharkbrosnan was a perfect bond I just felt like after golden eye they should’ve given him better script but he’s a perfect bond also my favorite
NTTD was like a weepy Nicholas Sparks romantic soap opera, with action scenes. EON gave too much creative freedom to non-writer Daniel Craig after he stupidly proclaimed "We've got to make this a tragedy." That's like interrupting sporting events to have the players recite miserable poetry. That isn't what the fans wanted & expected. 60 years of global popularity (for fun victorious stories) dismissed, just to placate one pretentious actor's wish to be "profound". Where NTTD leaves us is this: We have no reason to hope EON will make smart choices and get competent writing, so it hardly matters which actor is cast to play Bond next, because chances are he will be defeated by EON's foolish incompetence.
They killed him. That's it. Bond doesn't die. People around him do, and it's sad. Every bond fan has a character they wish didn't die but did. Bonds an unstoppable force. Unfortunately, people get lost along the way, but he keeps going. Craig's ego had to be met over the greatest series ever. Shame on all of them
I would describe myself as a bit of a Bond nut. I've been to the cinema to see every single one when they came out including this one (yes, I'm really old :) ). This is the only Bond film that I've not watched more than once, even though I've tried. I end up bailing out because it's hard work with all of the little stories they're trying to tell and I've often thought about several of the mini plots raised in this vid. I can only agree with you, they're trying to please everyone and end up pleasing no one. Great review.
My best bud saw the film before I did, and he said I was going to hate what they did. I immediately said, "Let me guess, Bond has a daughter and sacrifices himself at the end, dying." After I saw the movie, my buddy asked me how I knew. I said, "Well, the ripped off plot points from The Dark Knight for Skyfall, so I guessed that they would rip off major plot elements from Avengers Endgame." But, alas, this Bond was no Tony Stark.
Your opening statement is misleading. Craig didn't almost turn it down. He was under contact for one more movie, so he didn't have a choice. His complaint at the time was the delays in getting it made.
He'd rather slit his wrists "at that moment." That moment was after completing a Bond film. He said it in the context of 'doing two back-to-back.' He was saying that a two-fer would be impossible. He was not saying he would never do it again. He would have, and did, after a long rest.
Phoebe. Waller. Bridge. She's been involved in the scripts for two iconic character, Indiana Jones and James Bond, and in both attempted to kill them off and have female replacements. Both epically failed.
#muhphemunism
This this you are right sir you are right.
It seems she’s very anti men and her influence is all over Bond and Barbara Broccoli. Mike Wilson is none the wiser frankly
The whole film
Was very rushed and the main characters were killed off …bloody stupid
Agreed
PWB is a typical over-privileged Nepo baby. She got work because her family is already fabulously wealthy. But she thinks that she earned it and therefore real lead characters should be like her. It's a typical self-insert by someone who doesn't know real people or how they think, and just wanted men to be replaced by 'strong female diverse leads" at every turn. Rubbish.
Eon painted themselves into a corner with this film. Killing Bond was the dumbest fucking move they could make and it looks like they haven't got a clue how to get out of the bind they find themselves in.
It's not a bind you just do another film with a different actor, 2006 made it clear Daniel Craig was a reboot bond, they've not done the soft but impossible timeline thing since Die Another Day. Daniel Craig bond became double o seven in Casino Royal and died in No Time to Die, the next bond might be another reboot (I hope it isn't) or he might just show up completing a new mission with aplomb goes to see M for his next mission and does that with zero explanation. it's only you bloody geeks that cry about it.
Some people see each Bond actor as the same man just going thru different iterations of time.
Otherwise it becomes the codename theory.
@@e-musickvance3581 Skyfall debunked the codename theory. We see the grave of Bond's parents. Andrew and Monique Bond.
@ivanivez7456
This is why some Bond fans are pissed they killed him off.
Unless they say it was a really bad dream and Bond is still strapped to Blofeld's torture chair in SPECTRE with those drills messing up his cognitive ability. Or he didn't really die and the missiles blew him in the ocean?
But yea they wrote themself in a bind
I think the producers thought that the fanbase would embrace a black, female 007 from here on.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge! She also destroyed Indiana Jones!
That's all I need to know
- And the producers who signed off on the work ?
PWB - is just a writer for hire - the buck stops with Wilson and Broccoli
The honour of destroying Indy would go to Crystal Skull tho! Last one was more than a notch better than part 4.
@@k.b.7718 Agreed! 👍
I'll tell you what went wrong, Broccoli given too much power and influence to Craig, waiting till HE was ready to shoot the next movie, and allowing the character to be killed off.
Bond didn’t have to die. Could’ve just retired. He looked old and tired anyway. Would’ve been good to pass on the baton and maybe even have Craig do a cameo in the new film congratulating the new Bond
@DrReelTV That's what they have been doing for the forty years before that egotistical asshole Craig came along.
@@DrReelTVAnd I definitely hated that Felix Lighter was killed.
Amazon needs to find a way to get rid of her. It annoys me to no end that they lost Nolan because she won't give up the reigns. NTTD has shown that EON is creatively bankrupt and needs to be shoved aside.
@tonyfelder1206 When I saw that in the cinema, it sickened me then Bond being killed.
James Bond died CRYING and holding a dolly named "Dou Dou." Humiliating. Now some unsolicited, but respectful advice for Dr. Reel: the AI voice narrator of this video is terrible. Use your own voice. TH-cam is about authenticity.
You Tube is about authenticity? Not to my knowledge😅
No AI voice please
Bruh you hate yourself lol this movie was great I just watched it and I've seen em all. Every single one. Guess what? It's the best one and y'all will be eating your words in a couple years when you go back and watch it again
@@diatomicdoyen5282 I've never watched it again. However, if you like it, that's great.
You don’t kill bond. Or make him vulnerable with no sense of humour. 🤨
Agreed
The could simply show the Russians or Chinese getting first to the island,being a military base bond could have fallen it to a hard fox hole , The Russians or Chinese find him, dig him out save his life, place bond in isolation, And find a way of controlling the nano bot virus, they carry out plastic surgery as bond was burned ,And while he is imprisoned,He escapes, And start getting flash backs to his memory, result bond did not die , has a new face, And the Russians or Chinese have gain access to the nano bot virus , cue start of new bond 🤔🙉🙈🙊
@@DrReelTV Originally Danny Boyle (Director) was signed on to the film back in 2016, and in his script James Bond , was to die, however the way his charter died , would have been very different to how it ended in No Time To Die , it's one of the few things not removed from Danny Boyles original script.
Development on the film began in 2016. Danny Boyle was originally attached to direct and co-write the screenplay with John Hodge. Both left in August 2018 due to creative differences, and Fukunaga was announced as Boyle's replacement one month later.
@@DrReelTV Also , when Cary Joji Fukunaga had taken over from Danny Boyle , Covid19 hit , and effected production with delays
^^This^^ it was too long, No sense of humor, she was never happy in Spectre or NTTD. Watching 007 should be fun, not a chore.
I will also say they take way too long to make these. Cruise is bangin out Missions every year - year and a half, that are more entertaining and fun to watch.
The problems began when Craig was cast, and the Bond series changed from being escapist entertainment to serious spy drama. Craig does not have the charm and charisma of his predecessors. He looks more like a bouncer at a nightclub than a spy. And he should NEVER have been allowed to kill 007 off. It might be years before a new Bond film is made.
A bouncer in a night club was exactly my thought.
I could not agree more. I was not a fan of the Daniel Craig era. He is a great actor, but, for me, certainly not James Bond.
Couldn’t agree more
Babs staunchly defended her decision to cast Craig . It was abit like Brexit either you loved him or were greatly disappointed in his casting.
I simply don’t see Bond in any of his films !
It was all a dream. A de-aged Pierce Bronson wakes up from a long sleep and dreamt the Craig era movies. Fixed.
Doing a Dallas?
@@danielsiljeholm well it could work, as I've always seen Craigs bond as nothing more than a glorified wannabe 007, where he actually acts far more like 006, and it be easy enough to imagine it being a dream where bond wonders how 006 would have faired in his place and continued on with his life
@@danielsiljeholm IT WAS AAAAALL A DREam.
Agree with everything in this. Movie was great until the opening credits, then the wheels came off. Spectre was the ideal send off for Craig. They should have recast after that.
Agreed
@@DrReelTV the theme song was good , but I agree DrReelTV with alls yours points
Spectre, as a sendoff was ok-ish. Should have ended at Skyfall.
It simply demonstrated that EON and all involved really didn't understand the original James Bond character that Ian Fleming created or the Bond that audiences love.
I agree !!
Oh, they understand him too well to know he was not for kids and famillies.
All the Daniel Craig films are just so bloody depressing. Even the theme tunes are a downer. Killing Bond and Felix... terrible idea🥺
First two were cracking good films but after that Pppphhffffttt!
Craig era was really bad.
Casino Royale was ok, the rest you can keep
I loved Casino Royale. But after that...meh!
Welcome to the modern dark age my friend.
The issue I had with Craig movies is that they took themselves a bit too seriously and tried too hard to create linkages between them all. The greatness of bond comes from being able to pick them up at any stage and watch them with the most basic understanding. Just watched thunderball for the first time in a while today. It is still a great movie
Without planning. If they were linked at the beginning, it would make more sense
I liked that Craig brought a more realistic, gritty bond who’s more vulnerable and human. They explored a bit of his psyche with him coping with vesper’s death etc. He has the physicality and the fights are good. The writing for his character isn’t exactly bad but the movie itself like the plot is kinda meh. And I feel like Craig looks too much of a brute than a smooth charming spy
Craig was a Bond for the generation at that time, and he was great. His action needed to be competitive with other films happening at that time. But yes your point about linking storylines between films is risky because you are only then catering for the people that watched the one previously. Bond films do need to be more standalone, and there's a lot that can learned from Craig movies. Loved Casino Royale and Skyfall, watched them many times. Let's see what the future holds
@@DrReelTV So Craig was for the WOKE generation. I can live with that.
@@somemysteriousguy7114 Timothy Dalton did it first, and he did it without making Bond look like a self-loathing loser.
You were right. The Anna de Armas section was the best part of the whole movie. As to the ending, Cubby is rolling over in his grave.
Ana was amazing. Her chemistry with Craig was amazing. That part of the movie was truly 007. But alas we will never see Ana again as she has drifted into John Wick world where I think she will be astounding
You can actually hear Cubby spinning like a top.
@DrReelTV That is sad, I was hoping she would return in future Bond films, but what with killing Bond in NTTD it is probable the whole Craig time-line will wind up being treated as a separate universe and just ignored in the following films.
@@harrypalmer4857 With Connery laughing at him!
Anna De Armas was by far the best thing in the film, far too good to be allowed to stay !!! The next film should completely ignore this dogs dinner of a film and invisible plot - all except for Anna - who should surely be invited back to play a starring role, an obvious choice as a partner for the next generation Bond and the return of panache, sex appeal and humour. I won’t hold my breath.
James Bond has always been about escapism, alpha male, beautiful woman, glamour and an evil villain. Ok, no real problem with bringing it into the 21st century, but when you have try hard black women who add nothing to the plot except ticking a box, you know you have a problem. For me it took away everything JB is and should be.
They had a ton of strong femeales on this saga, Michelle Yeoh, Halle Berry just to mention Two
The woke see Bond as classic “toxic masculinity.” “Male, pale, and stale.” They destroy everything they touch.
But hey, who cares what about the “Bond fans.”
@@alfernandez9493 And don't forget Luciana Paluzzi!
Yeah people who think this is a bad movie are genuinely dumb lol
Its the same problem Disney is having with "updating" their classic movies.
The core of those stories do not work with "modern" movie making ideals. Just leave them alone. Make something new. Elsa did it, and Inside Out, and The Taming of The Dragons, and Moanna, and a dozen others. You try to make old stories modern all you do is ruin the old stories. If they are outdated, stop telling them. If they are timeless, just make them good.
Trying to turn Snow White into a boss bitch feminist doesnt make Snow White good, it makes feminists stupid.
NTTD was the first Bond film where I kept checking my watch to see when it would be over.
It did fail to wow, except maybe scenes with Ana there was quick flurry of the old Bond action we know.
I walked out after about 15 minutes. I ended up seeing it on free Tv. Once was enough. When Bond is blown off his feet by the bomb at Vespa's grave should have been the ending ... They lost it with the writing & that's getting PW Bridge in. Her style of writing stands out rather than blends in because of diversity ticking - they didn't have a clear idea of what they were doing and they were trying to shoehorn a theme through the Craig movies as if they are doing television. It worked with Casino & QoS because it felt like one story over the two films.
Too overlong.
For me, that was Skyfall - pretentious as all get out - up its own ass and utterly wank.
Couldn't wait for it to end!
Craig decided he was the greatest bond ever and couldn't be replaced and decided he could kill off the character by being a producer. Absolute ego trip. I find his bond films unmemorable after Casino Royale.
It’s okay if you think that but let’s not pretend like 007 films before Casino Royale weren’t on average objectively worse, and in many cases just pure trash.
At worst Craigs Bond films were boring (Quantum of solace, Spectre), at worst Brosnan and Roger Moore’s Bond films were pure dog sh**.
@@miniman2132 what on earth are you going on about. Why watch them if you think they were that bad. Lunacy.
@@BiggerBadderBrian I had to watch them to figure out that pre-Daniel Craig bond films sucked, didn’t I?
How can I have an opinion on something I’ve not watched?
@@CLF1975 I liked Skyfall awell as Casino Royale, the others were forgettable. Only saw QS once and that was once to many
I'm so sick of the "slashing wrists" quote. It was taken out of context. Daniel Craig was asked if he was ready to do the next film immediately after finishing Spectre. He said it jokingly... he later compared it to asking a woman immediately after giving birth if she's ready to have another baby. He was exhausted after finishing Spectre.
Ah that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying where it came from
This is true, so I never give him any crap for that quote. I would've said the same thing under similar circumstances. But I did otherwise get the sense that Craig didn't want the role in the first place (Barbara Broccoli basically wouldn't take no for an answer) and I don't get the sense he ever enjoyed it while he was there. I don't care who the next Bond is, so long as that guy wants the job.
Yeah, recently when asked who he thinks will be the next Bond he's like "I don't care"
He never cared for the role lmao. And he's the worst Bond ever too. He looks like a Bond villain instead.
And he should count his blessings tbh. What did he do before Bond?drama films and some small parts in movies like Road to Perdition or Tomb Raider? I gotta be honest i didn't know the guy when he was announced. It was only later that i randomly recognized him in some older films like The Jacket.
@@SicKno-i5r , Craig's "Bond" looks more like fish%chips with beer than caviar and champagne like the other Bonds looked like!
I’d slash my wrist after watching one of his film’s frankly!
Craig and Seydoux's chemistry was never there. Not like the strong 1 Craig had with Eva Green which was impressive. I thought the movie was too WOKE and it effeced Bond's usefulness as a character.
What went wrong?
Wokeness, lots and lots of wokeness.
I do think they tried it and then changed their minds 20mins later. The script was so confusing. Pick a side
It wasn't THAT woke.
It would've been woke had Nomi said "the world's moved on from straight white men commander"
Or Q said "He's coming over in 20 minutes... yes James I said he, do you have a problem with that you bigoted relic?"
@@DrReelTV The Black Broad who looked like a dude 🤣
Should Craig’s wife Rachael Weisz be credited (blamed) for turning Bond woke?
It’s ultimately just the unfortunate hole that the Craig era dug itself into. Every other Bond actor added new things to the series without destroying the core of the character, but because of how Bourne-style spy stories were becoming popular Craig reset the character and made his world completely different. It was fine at first, but by the end we have a dead Bond, a dead M, a Q and Moneypenny who feel almost nothing like their classic selves, a blown up MI6 building and Blofeld reducing to a boring man who’s apparently Bond’s brother. It would’ve been fine at first, but post Skyfall it seems like the writers really struggled to make the films enjoyable because they had done so much to the very ethos of Bond.
If I had to wait for my star to heal and then hear how reluctant he was to return, I would have started the talent search the next day. The king is dead, long live the king.
fundamental mistake...007 is James Bond while James Bond is 007. They are forever connected to each other.
Alright bro its a designation in mi6 not your own personal whatever. If you actually liked 007 movies then you know this is by far the best one
One of the biggest issues I noticed with the film is how it tried to be “different” but ended up following a lot of trends that were becoming popular. The aging hero having a daughter to continue his legacy in some form, ending with his death. Avengers Endgame did it with Iron Man and before that Logan did it, and both did it better and more natural. Sure that scenario has been done before, but in Logan the death felt real, and the entire film built up to that moment. In No Time to Die they went in with the intention of killing Bond, but by the time they got there they had no idea how to make it work without a bunch of contrived plot points. The second Craig stated that he was going to do one more and be done, I knew they were going to kill him off. If anything, keeping him alive would have been more of a surprise.
Another issue is that they were so concerned with making the film the Progressive Bond that the characters felt one dimensional and hollow. Nomi could have been an interesting character that brought energy and excitement to the story, but Phoebe Waller Bridge and the director turned her into a “black bitch” who is antagonistic to the main hero simply to be antagonistic. She had very little personality outside of “screw you I’m the captain now”. She was a mouth piece of what a rich, woke white woman thinks a strong black woman should be. It was very disingenuous. Paloma was a fun character, but she was wasted. She could have taken the place of Nomi as the younger partner for Bond that could take over, or vice versa.
Also, Madeline is such a dull, underwhelming character, and her and Bond have very little chemistry. She was clearly brought back because the producers were more interested in breaking tradition by having the main Bond girl from the previous movie coming back. Her dying in the beginning at the site of Vesper’s grave would be the perfect straw that breaks Bond. Seeing a broken Bond go from self destructive drunk to a revenge driven psycho, to finally making the ultimate sacrifice for the greater good would have been a powerful ending to the Craig saga.
And Safin as the big bad…. He was such a poorly realized character.
The fact that killing Bond was Craig’s idea shows that he’s got a big ego. He was subliminally saying he’s bigger than the previous actors and bigger than the franchise. He still could’ve done No Time to Die without killing Bond. Still can’t believe the producers agreed with Craig to kill Bond🤦🏾♂️
Another thing I really hated was Blofeld's death...
Many fans ( myself included ) had been wondering for years if the character would ever return and surprise surprise he does come back and played by Christopher Waltz no less 🙂🙂 and in the next movie he dies...What the f..k ??
@@ivanivez7456 And the fact that the death scene itself had little emotional impact was ridiculous!
@@jeromewagschal9485 The way they tried to shoehorn Blofeld into Bond’s childhood was so trite. And his death was so rushed. He essentially died off screen. I was also excited to see how Spectre would factor in to the series as well.
Absolutely spot on.....I thought Nomi was pointless other than to be antagonistic.....they could have had her save Bond at the end at least, after he saves the day, even the eulogy at the end was very poorly done....
Never mess with what work's. The Bond legacy died in this feeble attempt to satisfy the current movement instead of the die-hard fans.
Aside from the over bloated emoting between Bond and What’s-Her-name toward the end of the film, to solve the “Nano-bots” crap issue - all Bond needed to do was have a blood transfusion.
All of Craig's films had that heavy-handed sentimentality; as soon as Vesper dies, he's building another Very Strong Meaningful Relationship with another woman and dammit, we the audience simply don't care give us a good villain with a good plot already. We never got it from this guy's series of films.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there a moment when M says that, given time, he'd be able to kill the nanobots ?
Or maybe it was just wishful thinking...
Anyway I'm sure he'd be able to do that...
Daniel Craig had 2 good Bond films. But overall it was the least satisfying series of any of the actors. Craig's Bond never felt like he wanted the job of 007. Bond quit or went rogue in every single of his Craig's films. Connery & Moore's Bonds may not have always liked their being a spy, but they did what needed to be done & made the best of it. And if James Bond can't enjoy the mission, the audience isn't going to enjoy it either.
And now James Bond is dead and will remain dead until some time in the future another producing company decides to resurrect James Bond many years from now for a new generation. Producers Broccoli & Wilson won't be able to undo what they did.
Not one single stand alone Bond story from Craig either? Vesper bl00dy Lynd was in every story. And we never saw Bond at his peak. First two he was the new guy, next he was out of shape, then he was old, and finally he was retired.
Yeah 😔😔😔 I don't know what the hell they were thinking...
Or maybe it was Craig's conditions for his last Bond movie...
@@leechapman-ri9rb Skyfall WAS a standalone movie, but Spectre changed all that.
Casino Royale and Skyfall were the best movies
@@DrReelTV. The best Craig Bond movies….Agreed.
'Waller bridge, that's what went wrong, her pro-women/woke-feminist ramblings are what infected this film and Indiana Jones DoD, that's my " guess " anyway ;)
Interesting. Do you think the producers will continue to push the woke-feminist agenda more on the next script?
@@DrReelTV I hope not, i think Waller Bridge wont be involved and hopefully they would have responded to the "woke " criticism.
Also I think Daniel wanted to be down with James Bond hence oked killing bond off…
@@itsmeprasad1987
So he did not realise there were different Actors bevor him for 60 Years😅
You're absolutely right. 👍
What went wrong is this: They made a bad film, and wasted a lot of talented actors with a sappy, silly story.
I wonder if the franchise is on its last legs. Nothing lasts forever. I agree that killing Bond was a bit of a slap in the face to the fans. They really went out of their way to ensure there was no equivocation about Bond's death. While the franchise can just start again with a hard reboot, that, too, is against the franchise DNA. I suspect the next bond will not do well; the hardcore fans like me are getting older, and the world is moving on. The studio pandering to Craig may very well have killed the goose that laid the golden egg. Too bad. Bond, you will be missed.
🎶No-bod-y lives for-ev-er🎶
🎶Makes me feel sad for the rest🎶
Yes Barbara clearly had a soft spot for him. 5 years and waiting...probably will be woke shite now
Well I think you are right and wrong at the same time. Its not Bond that is the problem, its the idiots in charge of making and writing it now. And also in this last version the miserable plank in the role. He should have been done after Spectre, he only came back for the money. If you look at what the Impossible Mission films did over the last 20 years it proves that there is a huge audience for spy, thriller / action heros the same as always. Those M.I, films blew every single Craig era movie away. Why? They were fun, the stunts were better, the locations and they were never boring and always entertaining. That first Craig Bond film was so slow, so dull it was like watching paint dry. People raved about it, but I dont want to see a Bond film where the big highlight is him playing cards for half an hour!!! So what they need to do is leave it alone for a couple more years. Then do a recast and just go back to what Bond movies were, fun and thrill rides. Think when they reset it with Pierce Brosnan. Everyone said it was over, that it would not work in the modern world, and yet Goldeneye was a blast, was the most successful Bond film to that point and Brosnan was superb in the role. They need to cast a charismatic actor like him again, someone who will be glad to be there, and then write it into his contract that he has to keep his mouth shut off screen, and not air his own opinions and politics to drive fans away, but to only promote the role and be positive. You know, like actors used to do years ago....
In NTTD, Bond was basically incompetent at his job and failed in brief to “come back alive” He was more Inspectre Clouseau than Commander Bond !
It’s bad since the Mission Impossible has managed to keep going making good films that stay true to the originals and not being forced to tick off representation boxes. They ought to give the Bond series to new people, but we need someone who can maintain the quintessentially British feeling.
James Bond at its core should be fun. The super spy who beats all the odds. Pure escapism, memorable villains and clever gadgets. I think the DC era writers forgot that formula. Just ignore this increasingly boring story arc and introduce a new James Bond with the classic elements.
Cannot do that...far too interesting..must be a rainbow "they/them" of the new grey commie within ALL of us (so it seems)...plus..how about giving a D.E.I. lassie a go? It's about time since 1962...a D.E.I (perhaps in a wheelchair like a 007 Steven Hawkins!) That would be dramatic!!...and indeed thrilling..driving..or sitting, watching themselves as they/thems are being self driven in an electric Aston Martin (of course)...avoiding the pedestrians and sticking to the 05 mph speed limits so that 007 stays below the radar of "normal" public surveillance
Sure to be a box office hit...GO FOR IT! You got it made.......
I thought all of Craig's Bond films were top notch until "No time to die." I'd already heard that Bond dies in the film and had imagine that it would be in a bloody, hand to hand scenario or really understated like a bullet to the back of his head from someone he trusted but I never expected the ridiculous ending we got. It had to be the most disappointing Bond film ever.
I didn’t know Bond was going to die in the end and I felt like my guts had been removed walking out the cinema. Couldn’t believe it.
@@DrReelTV I went opening night too at my local cinema,leaving was like all the fans leaving a football match at the same time after your teams just been thrashed ..
@@DrReelTV I understand, I know other people who were not prepared and were gutted by the death of Bond. I believe that the characters death was a condition of Craig doing this movie but i think it was unnecessary and more than a little selfish on Craig's behalf.
@@DrReelTVthat's how you were supposed to feel numb nuts. It's a beautiful tragedy
It may have been a decent movie but it WASN’T a Bond movie.
I agree...It was a psychological drama wrapped in a Bond movie where the Bond thing is just the wrapping...
Agreed
I agree. Even Dead Reckoning Part One felt more like a Bond movie.
Ditto for ALL of the wooden brick-with-eyes 5 terrible films
After a lifetime of investing in a character, my first theatre experience was Man With The Golden Gun, I can safely say the franchise can go F*** itself. The absolute asinine decision to kill off Bond destroyed everything. So do we just expect to see continual Bond deaths throughout the franchise now? All I know is, I won't be watching it.
The death of Bond was just the worst idea. You are right. Should we expect more deaths?
Someones mad haha go rewatch all those trash movies 🍿
@@diatomicdoyen5282 awwww somebody feels lonely today. I’m sorry your parents didn’t love you.
Well...They can try that if that's where they want the franchise to go...But at some point the lack of interest ( or pure disdain ) of the fans and the world at large would force them to re-evaluate their choices...
This film was hate fiction, plain and simple. The convoluted plot is proof - they had a classic Bond script and then they pasted their 'message' into it peacemeal until all they had was a collage of nonsense.
AND, the final assault on the island complex made me feel like I was watching a dumb-ass first-person video game stream. I hated that part because it was so boring despite the so-called thrill of it.
It was all too predictable after when they cut to the island. No bad guy with an island has ever survived. Not in XXX, Jurassic Park, Silva, the list goes on…
I said above it was stupid all the men lining up to be shot, no reason they'd only send Bond and the bird in. why not send the SAS in with bond part of the party how awesome would that have been
Well, he said he’d rather do anything than come back one last time and honestly, it’s a shame he didn’t stick that. He made a series of demands in order to acquiesce which included the idea for the ending and whilst that was a daft decision on behalf of the producers, I think one of them would have given Craig whatever he asked for and I personally think there was some clouded judgement in there.
What we could have had, was a new start with a new Bond instead of what was offered up. Now it’s very tricky to come back and I’m not sure people would trust them again in terms of the safeguarding of an historic and beloved movie character. Whats to say the won’t kill the next one off after a couple of movies too and therefore, do people want to get so invested once again moving forward.
Excellent analysis. James Bond has always been a comic book movie. Really, a spy who always makes a point of telling everyone his name? No, you make a mistake when you try to take this guy too seriously.
Exactly, a "secret" agent who everybody knows, and also what his favorite drink is ? That's why I have no problem with films like Moonraker, the whole premise of cinematic Bond is non-sensical to begin with.
That's why Moore is by far my favorite Bond, he completely understood how to play the character, tongue in cheek. I rarely re-watch non-Moore Bond films. And this is from someone who has seen every Bond film in the theatre since OHMSS.
The Daniel Craig Bond series should have ended with SPECTRE. At that point, Craig was clearly done with the role and said so. So to get him to do one last film, they offered him a ton of money and granted his very selfish request to kill off 007. I really don't think the Bond series can continue now with a new actor, be it Aaron-Taylor Johnson or whomever. James Bond is dead. Craig refused to do what all the previous Bond actors had done, passing on the Walther PBK to the next, new Bond actor. It was Craig's way of ensuring he would have the absolute last word on Bond.
You don't tug on Superman's cap, you spit into the wind, you pull the mask off that old lone ranger, and you don't kill James Bond.
There was nothing right about this film right from the start and it never recovered. This video hit everything right on the head.
For me, this was not what I wanted for the end of the Craig era, When I realised what was about to happen I actually got up and walked out of the theater and waited for my wife , just as I walked thought the doors into the lobby there were boos .
Watching the people come out of the theater I wasn't the only one who felt this way, several people were saying it was an awful ending, one said there was no point in ever seeing another Bond film again he's dead.
A terrific essay. The injection of woke politics into the script, combined with the absence of any chemistry between Swann and Bond did it for me. Furthermore, a James Bond film is not supposed mimic a sappy family drama.
This was a really well observed and fair critique, thank you for posting.
You’re welcome ❤️🙏🏼
Easy: they hired the wrong actor to lead the series; then you give him (who openly hated the role) too much creative input and the producers (esp. Broccoli who loves DC for some reason) free rein and you're left with this turd pile of a franchise killer. All starts and stops with Broccoli and Craig.
Again Barbara B, was hoppening to get the big oscars, best picture, best script, best co-female lead, best actor nomi and wins, she did get none and the worst bondmovie ever becuse of woke and etc, and craig always wanted james bond to die, aldready in his second film, but barbara was obession over craig. and still is, that why we did not get a new bond after spectre or after this one now 5 years later
I hope the makers of James Bond realise that as a life long fan I will never watch anything related to this character again. I'm done with the modern bullshit. I have all the Bond films I like on Blu-ray anyways, so I'm good if I ever need a 007 fix.
Yeah I tend to return to the classics if I need a 007 fix. Not going to watch QOS, Spectre or NTTD ever again any time soon
Cry about it
You and me both. I was done the minute they decided to reboot the character. I felt nothing at them killing him off finally.
Same!! No more new Bonds for me. I'm good with the 24.
@@someshheble1204 I'm sure Craig did his best but they destroyed what made Bond so much fun as well.
Overly bloated, meandering story, somehow managed to make excellent actors (Rami Malek and Christoph Waltz) put in very boring performances, killed off an excellent Felix (Jeffrey Wright). Not much memorable about the film as a whole, Ana de Armas was probably the best thing.
You are right Craig was Shite😀
They should've call it "Just Die Already".
lol. Harsh. 🤣
@@DrReelTV i was anticipating a great closing of the series, with Carry Fukunaga directing it, i thought it couldn't go wrong. Instead its really an awkward piece of cinema where everything felt like a checklist of scenes. The death of Bond isn't earned in this movie. Wonder what Danny Boyle's movie would've be like. It was rumoured Bond would be mostly in captive in a Russian prison.
No offence to the woman but one Eva Green is worth ten Léa Seydoux in terms of raw draw power and box office (in fact the poor women just looks embarrassed to be involved in the whole farrago) hmm hmmm….. Poor James, he was robbed…
Indeed,Craig and Green had way more chemistry between them.The lack of any chemistry was obvious with Lea Seydoux it made many scenes in the films look wooden
@ Exactly so… isn’t it funny when making a very, very expensive movie not to even consider such important and obvious stuff!?
@@paulklee5790 ‘Tis shameful.
I hated this film. Too long. Too boring. Even the title has been used in other films e.g. it was the American title for the 1958 movie 'Tank Force.' Why all the references to OHMSS ? And the reuse of the Aston Martin DB5 was pointless.
@@colinbarron4 and don’t forget the Aston Martin V8 Vantage
Fantastic review.
@@Phony-baloney8 Thank you 🙏🏼 Glad you enjoyed it
Trying to replace James Bond, with JANE Bond, halfway thru the film?
The audience don’t go to the cinema to see that!
There are male action heroes, and female action heroes.
Yep, trying to get a female 007 sample to see how audiences would react. That was utter cringe. Unnecessary. Pointless. And then they back-pedaled on it in the same movie. WTF
@@DrReelTV Sigourney Weaver halfway thru Alien, or Angelina Jolie halfway thru Tomb Raider?
There’s just no need!
I think having JB in a car chase with his kid in the back seat was as pathetic as it gets 😢
Brilliant analysis and spot on. Although I read somewhere that part of the multiple movie deal was an approved request from Daniel that he wanted Bond to die. He had far too much artistic input. His only 2 superb efforts were Casino and Skyfall.
I'd like to forget the majority of the Craig era. With the exception of Skyfall and Casino Royale I seldomly re visit his entries. Moore is my Bond huge fun entertainment. If you want a more serious Bond Dalton was the one who nailed it. Only watched NTTD twice, no reason for a third. Die another Day is still the worst Bond film in its lunacy but NTTD committed a sin of film making, boring and lost the point.
Roger Moore is a f*cking LEGEND! He’s my Bond for sure growing up. LFG
DAD is wank, but it's nowhere near as boring as Quantum of Balls.
This was the worst Bond movie in my opinion. The plot was all over the place, hard to follow, characters with hardly backstories, and the worst villain. To top it, it turned very predictable and you could see that Bond was going to die.
I just despite it all Daniel Craig was miscast
End of
A big issue with NTTD is Spectre. 1. They were Bond's dragon to slay, and what on earth was he doing about them in the 5 years following the PTS?! 2. Whatever happened to them having "people everywhere?".
The worst James Bond movie ever for so much of reasons,no chemistry between the two main leads,main Bond girl still boring from her appearance in Spectre,making main Bond girl so important even though she boring ,feminist agenda,Bond dying 😂😂😂,BLM propaganda,worst and I mean worst Bond villain ever that makes Dominic Green look like a top tier villain😂😂😂..Daniel Craig should have stopped at Skyfall
You obviously haven't seen the 2 worst bond flims ive seen ,the living daylights and licence to kill ,thouse were utter laughing bond flims ,i have the james bond boxset, but never watch them 2 flims lol 😆 😂🤣🤣🤣
Tbh I don't remember much from Living Daylights and Licence to Kill either. Lol. The problem with NTTD is too many chefs in the kitchen. They tried to please everyone and ended up confusing everyone. Craig is still one of our top two Bonds ever, but this last movie just seemed too forced
You should have stopped before you posted this boring, predictable nonsense.
@@samsingh3753I like The Living Daylights!
@@Salsa_Shark he was the worst bond Timothy dalton
The only way No Time To Die can be rectified is to have the next movie showing Bond some how surviving the explosion. Perhaps one explosion weakened the floor around him causing it to collapse and allowing Bond to fall below. Unconscienced, he is found later by men from the ships which were arriving at the time of the attack. Through plastic surgery we are revealed to the new actor and perhaps a brainwashed plot to kill "M", as Ian Fleming wrote in his final book The Man with the Golden Gun. After the failed attempt from Bond, "M" sends Bond on a suicide mission. His reason is: If he survives it, then all sins forgiven. If he dies, he dies on the battlefield and not in prison. This was the beginning of Fleming's book and it could help bridge the ending of NTTD and Bond 26.
The family element I could handle. But I would have dangled that in front of him so he thinks he has a chance of having a family. Then I would have ripped them away from him. Leaving him with a sense of “Gotcha, no you don’t peanut 🥜. You’re no normal man. Your James Bond your life is espionage, vodka martinis shaken and not stirred, seduction, action, and fantasy. There’s no normal for you “.
The problem with No Time to Die is really the ending. The ending should’ve been the reset to default Bond. So the next Bond actor can be his own interpretation of the character.
That would be a better storyline more alike a Bond story
To this typical British man who watched all the Bonds and has been around since they started, it died when Pierce Brosnan finished. It became too hollywood for me! Killing of James Bond WTF, as you said JB ALWAYS survived that was the point 🤦♂
The irony of "James Bond will return" in the end credits of a film he dies in wasn't lost on me. I mirror much of the same sentiment you have. Whether it be to try a different creative direction or a somewhat "cultural agenda" driving the idea, the basic male escapism was almost entirely removed from the series, I feel to its detriment. I doubt any Bond fan would really enjoy watching a Bobd film where their favorite hero dies at the end.
This always felt like the Bond film made by committee, trying to balance placating the modern audience while still satisfying the core fans, and it didn't quite deliver on either front.
I couldn’t agree more with your assessment. I felt totally deflated after watching it. Killing Bond was a ridiculously short sighted decision. The whole movie was a buggers muddle and felt cobbled together by a committee.
Agreed 100%
Killing off James Bond was a Stupid Idea
Killing Bond was the dumbest thing to ever happen to the franchise......insanity that has killed the franchise until they reboot it in about 50 years time when most if us are gone and no one will remeber this mess.
Yes, Bond's no family man. What were they thinking? That's why we need a reboot. I agree with you in every way. Well put!
I knew it was going to be bad when women reported they were crying leaving the cinema after watching this. I mean, when has anybody ever cried after seeing a Bond movie!? People should be exiting it talking about the stunts & big chases. But no, they went down the route of tugging on the heart strings. A truly terrible movie. I hated it. Phoebe Waller Bridge, you're talented, but this was not a genre you should've entered.
Daniel Craig was never James Bond since his first movie. Killing him and ending his standalone reboot series was the best thing they could do.
Good assessment. Wasting Spectre was the biggest issue I had with the movie, followed closely by the female 007 thing, but glad it was pushed aside. If they did that, then that would have definitely killed off Bond.
Bond never had to die and solving this kind of thing is what Q is for. What a terrible decision.
This the outcome of having elements, only for the sake of diversity, woke, in movie development teams.
Just ask Ubisoft what happened to them.
It was Daniel Craig who wanted Bond killed off. In fact he had wanted it since before even filming his first outing “Casino Royale”
The reason why Skyfall was so successful was it felt like a traditional Bond film. Good story, excellent villain, gadgets, glamour and action. And they didn't try and squeeze it into some bloated overarching storyline - it works as a standalone film. Sure, they subsequently made the Silva character part of Spectre, but you could tell this was just tacked on to try and link all the Craig films, which was one of the many mistakes they made. I also think they made many last minute changes to the script - I wouldn't be surprised if Rami Malek was indeed meant to be Doctor No, but then decided to ditch this idea. Also why were the nano bots being farmed? Again I think this was a last minute change from some kind of virus, maybe done because of Covid? Such a shame, as there were elements in NTTD that were great, such as the Paloma character, and the Matera locations at the start, but overall it was a massive disapointment.
I think you're right with the Covid comparison, and I believe it's the true reason the film was delayed.
A key bedrock of Bond is that he is a survivor. He always finds a way to win-hence why the books, movies, and games were so enjoyable. No Time To Die destroyed that legacy for the sake of shock value. No Time To Die never needed to exist, Spectre wrapped things up just fine.
As for the nanobot nonsense, for a franchise thats meant to be grounded in reality, it is odd that they insist they were incurable given the well-known treatments including EMPs. The writers were just THAT keen on killing Bond.
This film and Quantum of Solace break the biggest rule of Bond movies: Don't Be Boring. The story in this one was such a snoozefest despite the fact that it was the only Craig bond film that had something close to a classic Evil Villain with Evil Plan plot we haven't seen since Brosnan left the stage. Like so many of Craig's outings, at the end I just wanted to see the credits. That should NEVER happen while watching a Bond film.
Phoebe saw it as killing masculinity. They were hoping to restructure the series to make his daughter, or Madeline the new bad ass.
EON must be full of idiots. They destroyed the franchise with this disaster of a movie. I must confess I liked the first Craig-movie. But after a while I liked him less and less as Bond. No humor, no wit, less gadgets, less clever comments and one-liners, less luxury, glamour and exotic scenes. The Craig-era Bond turned in to soulless action movies. Didn't feel like Bond anymore. When I read Craig would rather kill himself than play the role again, I got the feeling he has no respect for the character. He also said he would love to kill James Bond in the last movie. He got what he wanted. And for that I dislike him, and I rank him as "worst Bond ever".
I also hate the lazy journalism surrounding his Bond, calling him " the true interpretation of Fleming's Bond". Yes, he did a good job in Casino Royale 'cos he was working with source material, but after that I don't think he gave a solitary wank about playing him properly.
See Skyfall in the art gallery. "What do you see?" The REAL Bond being an encyclopedic smart-arse would've said something like "The fighting Temaraire, played a key role in the battle of Trafalgar etc" NOT "a bloody big ship".
No respect for the audience either
I think Skyfall was still great, maybe one of the best. They have messed it up with Spectre, when they tried to bind everything together in it was to rushed. An this hopeless mess... Well as many said it before, quite good action movie, but terrible Bond.
The worst, most boring Bond movie in history. Craig killed Bond, literally and figuratively.
Indeed..what a wooden actor..and zero charisma...
@ no humor or charm. Basically turned Bond into a thuggish hit man. He was more Bourne than Bond.
On the right I just noticed a thumbnail for a doco about the great Colin Chapman of Lotus car fame - my favourite race team. It's headed something like "Simplify Then Add Lightness" a Chapman design philosophy. Good advice for James Bond movie producers too I would have thought....
Waller-Bridge killed Bond. She also killed Indiana Jones. She is just an evil Bond villain.
EON stands for “everything or nothing”. Looks like maybe we have reached the “nothing”.
Another thing to question was why take Swann’s SUV to escape when he had his Q-equipped Aston? He knew the villains were coming, and the weapons and defensive equipment would have given all three of the characters a better chance. Because the SUV had room for a child seat doesn’t seem a compelling reason.
You cannot kill of the hero and resurrect him again! It didn't work for Endgame didn't work for Superman, didn't work for many characters all the way back to Dallas in the 70's. One would think producers would have figured it out by now, evoking the emotions of dealing with death, makes the separation very intense. We go home, we mourn, we get over it and carry on, that is natures way.
Well it’s new guy getting promoted to 007
@itsmeprasad1987 That hsppens to be named Bond?
New Superman movie is already releasing next year. Lmfao.
Bond is different as except the Craig era they all are independent. So the new one just continue ignoring not just NTTD but all of the Craig era.
To be fair... I always thought it would be better that 'James Bond' is a secret agent name and number given to any new spy that fits the mould. Unfortunately it's a real name of a spy which leaves us a bit trapped when continuing movies with the same name but other actors. And the problem with the last 5 films has been that it's a linked storyline, so now people for the last almost 20 years associate only Daniel Craig as James Bond.
I agree with you. I totally hate this movie and not just the ending. The only scene i loved was Cuba. I wish when Madeline was put on that train she would have never been seen again and Paloma would have been the Bond girl for the rest of the movie.
Killing Bond was just plain ridiculous.
Bond was destroyed back when Craig was hired.
Franchise with traditionally immortal main character and title at the same time - ok, let's kill him. What a genius way of cashing lucrative deal. Oh, Luke Skywalker died so why not 007
Daniel Craig made one good Bond movie Casino Royale, one middling Bond movie, Skyfall, and three terrible Bond movies, but they made a ton of money, so criticism has been muted
Daniel Craig was an excellent Bond with only two outstanding films. It’s a shame. I agree that you didn’t need Madeleine in the movie - AdA was outstanding. After 25 films, I was actually ok with Bond dying. I just wish the stakes were greater and his end was more heroic.
Agreed
I never felt like rewatching any of the Craig's Bond movies. I did not watch the last one, having seen a trailer! But I would rewatch Dr No with pleasure!
"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic James Bond. xxx will be that man. Better than he was before. Better... stronger... faster"
I will say frankly, that Daniel doesn’t even look like James Bond, he’s more look like German Captain 😅, I stopped watching Bond movies after Brosnan
I guess everyone has their favorite Bond mostly based around their childhood / teen / early 20's era. For me Bond will always be Roger Moore :-)
@@DrReelTVYep, for me, it was Brosnan in GoldenEye. It released during my first year of college along with the legendary N64 game. I was all in on Bond and have been ever since.
N64 was a highlight in our childhood, along with Gameboy.
@@Salsa_Sharkbrosnan was a perfect bond I just felt like after golden eye they should’ve given him better script but he’s a perfect bond also my favorite
NTTD was like a weepy Nicholas Sparks romantic soap opera, with action scenes. EON gave too much creative freedom to non-writer Daniel Craig after he stupidly proclaimed "We've got to make this a tragedy." That's like interrupting sporting events to have the players recite miserable poetry. That isn't what the fans wanted & expected. 60 years of global popularity (for fun victorious stories) dismissed, just to placate one pretentious actor's wish to be "profound". Where NTTD leaves us is this: We have no reason to hope EON will make smart choices and get competent writing, so it hardly matters which actor is cast to play Bond next, because chances are he will be defeated by EON's foolish incompetence.
It was not a "Bond" storyline or plot. Just another Modern Woke Action Movie using the "Bond" Name.
Yep I agree the woke agenda pushed hard on this one… and failed sorry to say
@@DrReelTV And Craig is like a woke Jason Bourne 😂
8th reason: Got too old. Looked more like grandpa bond.
(fart sounds)
Looking more and more like Sid James by the year. He could star in a big budget remake of Bless This House
They killed him. That's it. Bond doesn't die. People around him do, and it's sad. Every bond fan has a character they wish didn't die but did. Bonds an unstoppable force. Unfortunately, people get lost along the way, but he keeps going. Craig's ego had to be met over the greatest series ever. Shame on all of them
I would describe myself as a bit of a Bond nut. I've been to the cinema to see every single one when they came out including this one (yes, I'm really old :) ). This is the only Bond film that I've not watched more than once, even though I've tried. I end up bailing out because it's hard work with all of the little stories they're trying to tell and I've often thought about several of the mini plots raised in this vid. I can only agree with you, they're trying to please everyone and end up pleasing no one. Great review.
Thank you 🙏🏼 😃❤️
My best bud saw the film before I did, and he said I was going to hate what they did. I immediately said, "Let me guess, Bond has a daughter and sacrifices himself at the end, dying." After I saw the movie, my buddy asked me how I knew. I said, "Well, the ripped off plot points from The Dark Knight for Skyfall, so I guessed that they would rip off major plot elements from Avengers Endgame." But, alas, this Bond was no Tony Stark.
So no one is going to talk about Felix lighter dying with out his legs getting chewed of by sharks? 😳
Your opening statement is misleading. Craig didn't almost turn it down. He was under contact for one more movie, so he didn't have a choice. His complaint at the time was the delays in getting it made.
He'd rather slit his wrists "at that moment." That moment was after completing a Bond film. He said it in the context of 'doing two back-to-back.' He was saying that a two-fer would be impossible. He was not saying he would never do it again. He would have, and did, after a long rest.