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1983 James Bail film directed by Irvin Kershner

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

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

Product
company

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

Release dates
  • 7 Oct 1983 (1983-x-07) (U.Due south.)
  • fifteen December 1983 (1983-12-xv) (U.Thousand.)

Running fourth dimension

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • U.s.
Language English language
Upkeep $36 million
Box office $160 one thousand thousand[2]

Never Say Never Over again is a 1983 spy movie directed by Irvin Kershner. The picture show is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball past Ian Fleming, which in plough was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 film of the same name. Never Say Never Once again was non produced by Eon Productions, simply by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The movie was executive produced by Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory retained the filming rights of the novel following a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the role of Bond for the seventh and final time, marking his return to the graphic symbol 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The motion-picture show's title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that function again. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, although nearly 3 years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an crumbling Bond who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included French republic, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never Once more was released by Warner Bros. on 7 October 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the acting of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise as more than emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the day. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the same year.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training do, his superior, G, orders Bail to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While at that place, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face up is bandaged and after Blush finishes her chirapsia, Bail sees the patient using a auto which scans his eye. Bond is seen past Blush, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, merely Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Blush and her charge, a heroin-addicted United States Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an performance on his right eye to make information technology lucifer the retinal blueprint of the US President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American armed services base of operations in England. While doing then, he replaces the dummy warheads of two AGM-86B prowl missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE and then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Chroma murders Petachi past causing his automobile to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE's tracks.

Strange Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bond is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bond follows a lead to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the airplane pilot's sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE's top amanuensis.

Bail is informed past Nigel Minor-Fawcett of the British High Commission that Largo's yacht is at present heading for Dainty, French republic. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a wellness and beauty eye where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an event at a casino that evening. At the charity event, Largo and Bond play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing thespian of each turn receives a series of electrical shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. Afterwards losing a few games, Bond ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her brother had been killed on Largo's orders. Bond returns to his villa to find Nicole killed by Blush. Afterwards a vehicle chase on his Q-branch motorcycle, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is eventually captured by Blush. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bond to declare in writing that she is his "Number Ane" sexual partner. Bail distracts her with promises, so uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen gun to kill Blush with an explosive dart.

Bond and Leiter endeavor to board Largo's motor yacht, the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to brand Largo jealous by kissing Domino in front end of a ii-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base in N Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond subsequently escapes from his prison house and rescues her.

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

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number 1, SPECTRE's senior-most agent. He is based on the character Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera equally Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt downwards and kill Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi, sis of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the moving-picture show.
  • Bernie Casey as Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 department Quartermaster who bug specialised equipment to Bond.
  • Edward Play a joke on as "K", Bail'south superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem as Miss Moneypenny, Chiliad's secretary.
  • Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Part representative in the Bahamas.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahamas, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach every bit Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to kill Bond at the dispensary.
  • Anthony Sharp as Lord Ambrose, Strange Secretary who orders Thousand to reactivate the Double-0 department.
  • Prunella Gee every bit Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the clinic.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy every bit Helm Jack Petachi, a USAF pilot used by SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's brother.

Product [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[3] Fleming had worked with contained producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bail film, to be called Longitude 78 West,[4] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a expert idea lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[6] McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[vii] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] Subsequently Eon Productions started producing the Bail films, it subsequently fabricated a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then non make any further version of the novel for a flow of 10 years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[eight]

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

Towards the terminate of the 1970s developments were reported on the projection under the proper name James Bond of the Secret Service,[8] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the projection[x] [3] he decided against using Deighton's script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in society to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential contend with Ronald Reagan.[eleven] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to brand the screenplay "somewhere in the middle" between his campier projects such as Batman and his more than serious projects such as Three Days of the Condor.[10] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to piece of work on the script; however, Mankiewicz declined equally he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[thirteen] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project subsequently Irvin Kershner was hired equally director and Schwartzman began cut out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the upkeep.[10] Connery then hired British television set writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[11] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script being theirs. This was considering of a restriction by the Writers Guild of America.[14] Clement and La Frenais connected rewriting during the production, frequently altering it from day to day.[x]

The movie underwent one final modify in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[9] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband'south vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the terminate credits "Title Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A final attempt past Fleming'south trustees to block the film was made in the Loftier Courtroom in London in the bound of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to go along.[xvi]

Cast and crew [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had start planned the motion picture in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[17] although the project came to zilch because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead projection was launched in the belatedly 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade printing, including Orson Welles for the office of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play Grand and Richard Attenborough as manager.[nine]

In 1978, the working championship James Bond of the Secret Service was beingness used and Connery was in the frame again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal issues once more causing the project to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Limited: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually being in the picture."[xx] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $iii million ($8 1000000 in 2020 dollars[21]), casting and script blessing, and a percentage of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple altered the script to include several references to Bond's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of historic period and disillusionment in the pic, such equally the Shrubland'southward porter referring to Bond's machine ("They don't brand them like that anymore"), the new M having no utilise for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond'southward age even further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Sea.[x] Connery's casting was formally appear in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help get in shape for the production.[10]

For the principal villain in the picture, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the atomic number 82 of the 1981 Academy Accolade-winning Hungarian picture show Mephisto.[24] Through the same route came Max von Sydow every bit Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he still retained his Eon-originated white cat in the motion picture.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from ane of the early scripts of Thunderball.[xiv] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a trivial bit of black widow and a picayune bit of praying mantis."[10] Carrera's performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for All-time Supporting Actress,[27] which she lost to Cher for her part in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met up-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed afterward Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the part of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that equally the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would subsequently parody Bond in his role of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson's graphic symbol was added by Clement and La Frenais after the production had already started in order to provide the film with a comic relief.[10] Edward Trick was bandage as M in order to portray the graphic symbol as a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry'due south upkeep cuts to government services.[10]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, but later on meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[x] Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Underground Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the film but declined due to his previous work with Eon.[30] Irvin Kershner, who had previously worked with Connery on A Fine Madness (1966), and had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Dorsum was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were besides appointed, including first banana director David Tomblin, managing director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit director Mickey Moore and product designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[24] [31]

Filming [edit]

A large, sleek ship is moored at a quayside

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

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[14] earlier moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-Nov[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was too one of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually celebrated Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo'southward transport, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, and then owned past Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and called the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed by Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[10] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cave, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [ten] About of the filming was completed in the jump of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summertime of 1983.[12]

Production on the motion-picture show was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with banana director David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was disquisitional of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a good businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a flick producer".[32] After the product ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further product out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would cost to make.[35] At that place was tension on set between Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism behind the scenes and was on tape as maxim that the whole production was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

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

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman'due south first choice to etch the score subsequently being impressed with his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for virtually of the fourth dimension, wound up unavailable co-ordinate to Kershner, though Schwartzman afterwards claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bond composer John Barry was invited, but declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Over again was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score like to his work every bit a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the most disappointing characteristic of the moving picture".[24] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Once more", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had besides worked with Legrand on the Academy Award-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"[40] — and was performed past Lani Hall[24] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

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

Legal substitutions [edit]

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

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

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on 7 Oct 1983 in i,550 theatres grossing an Oct record $ten,958,157 over the four-day Columbus Solar day weekend[2] which was reported to exist "the best opening record of any James Bail film" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.ix million from June that yr. The motion picture had its UK premiere at the Warner W Finish picture palace in Leicester Square on fourteen Dec 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Once again grossed $160 one thousand thousand,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 1000000.[45] The film ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.five million.[46] [47] It was the first James Bond film to exist officially released in the Soviet Union, premiering in the summer of 1990 with a gala in Moscow.[48]

Warner Bros. released Never Say Never Again on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[50] Afterwards Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, beneath), the company has released the film on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Contemporary reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Again was broadly welcomed and praised by the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Again was "one of the better Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie too thought that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more appealing than ever as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times also concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking inappreciably a mean solar day older or thicker, and withal outclassing every other exponent of the role, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex and violence on the mode".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very most make information technology all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed upwardly Never Say Never Once again maxim "The action's expert, the photography splendid, the sets decent; simply the existent clincher is the fact that Bond is one time more played by a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bond, proverb the picture show contains "the best Bond in the business",[56] but still did not find Never Say Never Again whatever more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russian federation with Love".[56] Malcolm's main event with the moving-picture show was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-role success and the effort to make character as important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – upwards to scratch simply not surpassing it".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends up making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an 60 minutes-glass total of clammy sand, the flick moves with increasing slowness every bit it approaches a confused climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early part of the film was handled "with wit and fashion",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple's script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the film and its bandage. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer's character was "played with silky, neurotic amuse",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who take slithered through Bond's career".[59] Schickel'south highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "information technology is practiced to see Connery's grave stylishness in this function again. It makes Bond'southward cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and world weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore'south mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the picture, maxim she idea that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more than humor and character than the Bond films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the role, observing that "in Never Say Never Again, the formula is broadened to accommodate an older, seasoned homo of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the beak."[60] Writing in The Washington Mail, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Again is "one of the all-time James Bail take a chance thrillers ever made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is probable to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its near astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, proverb that "Never Say Never Again is the all-time acted Bond movie ever made, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The World and Mail, Jay Scott, too praised the film, saying that Never Say Never Again "may be the simply instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed by a first-rate director."[62] According to Scott, the manager, with high-quality support cast, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Once more, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was unlike from other Bail films: "For i thing, there's more than of a human element in the movie, and information technology comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... merely here, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Good piece of work, 007."[63] Factor Siskel of The Chicago Tribune besides gave the film iii½ out of 4 stars, writing that the film was "ane of the best 007 adventures ever made".[64]

Colin Greenland reviewed Never Say Never Again for Imagine magazine, and stated that "Never Say Never Again is a conceited male person sexist fantasy, where women can be but femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced pic, it has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Once again "exist outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, simply as they're absent-minded from MGM'south megabox. Simply take my word for it; they're both pretty atrocious".[66] Retrospective reviews of the picture show remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged 70% of the reviews as positive, with an average rating of 5.60/10. The site'southward critical consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bail make Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is still more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Again 16th among all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the picture has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on xv critics, indicating more often than not favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the flick 3 of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to telephone call information technology quits the first time round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Once again a score of 5 out of 10, claiming that the motion-picture show "is more than miss than hit".[71] The review also thought that the film was "marred with as well many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bond being Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the ninth best Bond motion picture to that point, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the film "is successful only as a portrait of an over-the-colina superhero." He admitted that "even past his prime number, Connery proves that nobody does information technology ameliorate".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Over again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a film which has "a hokey, jokey feel, [information technology] is possibly the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major disappointment that, having lured back the original 007, the film makers couldn't offer him something meliorate than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "it was smashing to see Sean Connery return equally James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He also thought the supporting bandage was good, maxim that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... one of the most complex of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "make lasting impressions."[74] Peary also wrote that the "film is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... It would be one of the all-time Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't piece of work because viewers normally tin can't tell the hero and villain apart and they know doubles are existence used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Once again was intended to start a serial of Bail films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bond, with McClory announcing the next planned flick South.P.Due east.C.T.R.E in a February 1984 consequence of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his role as Bond in another film produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the borderline to buy the rights to another picture for $5 meg, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make some other pic without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory appear plans to make another adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 AD, but the picture was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory's rights for an undisclosed corporeality,[4] and subsequently appear that it intended to brand a series of Bond films, as the company also held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This move prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to give up all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would continue with another Bond film,[79] and continued his case against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the courtroom rejected McClory's arrange.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, not-satirical picture adaptation of that novel the same twelvemonth with Daniel Craig every bit James Bond. Ultimately, McClory's heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, allowing the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the motion-picture show Spectre.

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

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