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1983 James Bond film directed past Irvin Kershner

Never Say Never Once 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 theater poster by Renato Casaro
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Screenplay by 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

Production
visitor

Taliafilm
Distributed by
  • Warner Bros. (U.S.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.1000.)[1]

Release dates
  • 7 October 1983 (1983-10-07) (U.S.)
  • 15 December 1983 (1983-12-15) (U.M.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United states
Language English
Upkeep $36 million
Box office $160 million[2]

Never Say Never Once more is a 1983 spy film directed by Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the 1961 James Bail novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story past Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adjusted in a 1965 film of the same name. Never Say Never Over again was not produced past Eon Productions, but by Jack Schwartzman'due south Taliafilm. The picture was executive produced by Kevin McClory, i of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory retained the filming rights of the novel post-obit a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the office of Bond for the seventh and final time, marking his return to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film's title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never" play that role over again. Every bit Connery was 52 at the fourth dimension of filming, although near three years younger than incumbent Bond Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bond who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never Again 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 emotionally resonant than the typical Bond films of the twenty-four hours. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 meg at the box role, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the same year.

Plot [edit]

After MI6 agent James Bail, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, M, orders Bond to a wellness dispensary outside London to get back into shape. While in that location, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic chirapsia to a patient in a nearby room. The man'due south face is bandaged and after Chroma finishes her chirapsia, Bond sees the patient using a car which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Blush, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to impale him in the clinic gym, but Bond manages to kill Lippe.

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

Foreign Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 department, and Bond is tasked with tracking downwardly the missing weapons. Bail 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 agent.

Bond is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Committee that Largo's yacht is now heading for Nice, France. There, Bond joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bail goes to a health and dazzler middle 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 clemency upshot, Largo and Bond play a iii-D video game called Domination; the losing actor of each turn receives a series of electrical shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. Later on losing a few games, Bond ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her brother had been killed on Largo's orders. Bail returns to his villa to find Nicole killed by Blush. Later on a vehicle chase on his Q-branch motorbike, Bond finds himself in an ambush and is eventually captured by Chroma. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bond to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-co-operative-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 make Largo jealous by kissing Domino in front end of a two-style mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations of operations in North Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal past selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond after escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.Southward. Navy submarine. After the first warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they rail Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, below a desert oasis on the Ethiopian declension. Bail and Leiter infiltrate the hush-hush facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter's squad and Largo's men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Only as Largo tries to use a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun by Domino, taking revenge for her brother'due south death. Bond then defuses the nuclear flop underwater, saving the world. Bond retires from duty and returns to the Bahamas with Domino, vowing never over again to be a clandestine agent.

Cast [edit]

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

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Once more had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[three] Fleming had worked with contained producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond picture, to be called Longitude 78 West,[four] which was subsequently abandoned considering of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to permit a good idea prevarication 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 Courtroom in London for alienation of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[4] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently fabricated a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and so not make any farther version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[8]

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

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the proper name James Bond of the Hugger-mugger Service,[8] simply when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal problems that still surrounded the project[10] [3] he decided against using Deighton's script. The project returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in lodge to avoid another lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the event in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[xi] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to make the screenplay "somewhere in the middle" between his campier projects such equally Batman and his more serious projects such as Three Days of the Condor.[x] Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the piece of work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; however, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Eon's Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project after Irvin Kershner was hired equally managing director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "large numbers" from his script to relieve on the budget.[10] Connery and so hired British goggle box writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[xi] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script existence theirs. This was because of a brake by the Writers Guild of America.[xiv] Clement and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering it from mean solar day to day.[10]

The moving picture underwent one final change 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 Once again, referring to her husband's vow[xv] and the producers best-selling her contribution by listing on the end credits "Title Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming'due south trustees to block the film was made in the Loftier Court in London in the spring of 1983, merely this was thrown out past the courtroom and Never Say Never Once more was permitted to proceed.[16]

Cast and coiffure [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the movie in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the function of Bail,[17] although the project came to nothing because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the tardily 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade printing, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough every bit manager.[9]

In 1978, the working championship James Bond of the Hole-and-corner Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going caput-to-head with the adjacent Eon Bail motion picture, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[nineteen] Connery idea himself unlikely to play the office, as he stated in an interview in the Sun Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually beingness in the film."[20] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bail; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $3 meg ($8 meg in 2021 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a percent of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, Semple contradistinct the script to include several references to Bond'southward advancing years – playing on Connery beingness 52 at the fourth dimension of filming[22] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that at that place are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such every bit the Shrubland'due south porter referring to Bond'southward motorcar ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new 1000 having no employ for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond'due south age fifty-fifty farther, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish angling trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the North Sea.[10] Connery's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to help make it shape for the production.[10]

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

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, but after meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[10] Quondam Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty'south Hush-hush Service, Peter R. Chase, was approached to direct the picture merely declined due to his previous piece of work with Eon.[thirty] Irvin Kershner, who had previously worked with Connery on A Fine Madness (1966), and had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were likewise appointed, including first assistant director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit managing director Mickey Moore and production designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[24] [31]

Filming [edit]

A large, sleek ship is moored at a quayside

The Kingdom 5KR which acted equally Largo'southward ship, the Flying Saucer

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

Production on the picture was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a good businessman, "he didn't take the feel of a film producer".[32] After the product ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further product out of his ain pocket and later on admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would price to make.[35] There was tension on gear up between Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism behind the scenes and was on record as saying that the whole production was a "encarmine Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this film, broke Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Prove with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was cleaved until over a decade after.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner's and Schwartzman's first pick to etch the score after being impressed with his work on Star Trek Two: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the time, wound up unavailable co-ordinate to Kershner, though Schwartzman later on 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 Once more was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his work as a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the most disappointing feature of the film".[24] Legrand as well wrote the principal theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had also worked with Legrand on the Academy Award-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"[forty] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] subsequently Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman as well recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but the song — an unsolicited submission — was passed over, given Legrand'due south 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 Bond films were not nowadays in Never Say Never Once again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen total of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bond Theme" to apply, although no effort was made to supply another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed simply non used;[43] instead the pic opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on 7 October 1983 in 1,550 theatres grossing an Oct tape $ten,958,157 over the four-day Columbus Mean solar day weekend[2] which was reported to be "the best opening record of whatsoever James Bond motion-picture show" up to that betoken[44] surpassing Octopussy 'due south $8.nine million from June that year. The film had its Great britain premiere at the Warner West End movie theatre in Leicester Square on xiv December 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 one thousand thousand.[45] The flick ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 one thousand thousand.[46] [47] Information technology was the first James Bond film to be officially released in the Soviet Union, premiering in the summertime 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] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (come across Legacy, beneath), the company has released the film on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Gimmicky reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Over again was broadly welcomed and praised by the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Again was "1 of the meliorate Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie likewise idea that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more than highly-seasoned than ever as the stylish resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times likewise concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a mean solar day older or thicker, and even so outclassing every other exponent of the office, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sex and violence on the way".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very near make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed upward Never Say Never Again saying "The action's good, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played by a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery'due south Bail, proverb the film contains "the all-time Bond in the business",[56] but yet did not find Never Say Never Again whatsoever more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very virtually to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm'southward primary issue with the motion picture was that he had a "feeling that a abiding struggle was going on between a want to make a huge box-office success and the effort to make character as important equally stunts".[56] Malcolm summed upwards that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch only non surpassing information technology".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends upwards making no contribution of its own and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "similar an hour-glass full of damp sand, the picture moves with increasing slowness equally 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 manner",[58] although he went on to say that the director was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple'south script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Time magazine praised the film and its cast. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer's character was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bail's career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is expert to see Connery's grave stylishness in this role over again. It makes Bail's cynicism and opportunism seem the production of genuine worldliness (and world weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, saying she idea that Never Say Never Over again "has noticeably more than humor and grapheme than the Bond films usually provide. Information technology has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the office, observing that "in Never Say Never Once more, the formula is broadened to conform an older, seasoned human of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the bill."[60] Writing in The Washington Mail service, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, saying that Never Say Never Once again is "ane of the best James Bond risk thrillers always fabricated",[61] going on to say that "this film is probable to remain a cherished, savory example of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Again is the all-time acted Bond pic ever made, considering information technology clearly surpasses any predecessors in the expanse of inventive and clever character delineation".[61]

The critic for The Earth and Mail, Jay Scott, also praised the motion picture, saying that Never Say Never Again "may exist the but instalment of the long-running series that has been helmed past a first-rate director."[62] According to Scott, the director, with high-quality support bandage, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ out of iv stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bail plot", was different from other Bond films: "For ane thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and information technology comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "at that place was never a Beatles reunion ... only hither, by God, is Sean Connery equally Sir James Bond. Adept work, 007."[63] Factor Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the film iii½ out of 4 stars, writing that the film was "i of the best 007 adventures ever made".[64]

Colin Greenland reviewed Never Say Never Once more for Imagine magazine, and stated that "Never Say Never Again is a complacent male sexist fantasy, where women tin can exist simply femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Because Never Say Never Again is non an Eon-produced picture, information technology has non been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again "be outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, just every bit they're absent from MGM'south megabox. But have my word for it; they're both pretty atrocious".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged lxx% of the reviews as positive, with an boilerplate 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 than understated Bond make Never Say Never Again a watchable retread."[67] The score is however more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Once more 16th amid all Bail films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the movie three of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to phone call it quits the commencement time round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of x, challenge that the picture "is more miss than striking".[71] The review also thought that the film was "marred with as well many clunky exposition scenes and non enough moments of Bail existence Bail".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again as the ninth best Bail pic to that indicate, after 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the flick "is successful only as a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "even by his prime, Connery proves that nobody does it better".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Once more, 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 thwarting that, having lured dorsum the original 007, the film makers couldn't offering him something ameliorate than this fatigued-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "information technology was great to see Sean Connery render as James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He also idea the supporting cast was good, maxim that Klaus Maria Brandauer'southward Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... ane of the near 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 ... Information technology would be ane of the all-time Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When volition filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't piece of work considering viewers usually can't tell the hero and villain apart and they know doubles are beingness used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Again was intended to start a series of Bail films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bond, with McClory announcing the next planned film Southward.P.E.C.T.R.E in a Feb 1984 issue of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his part as Bail in some other motion-picture show produced past Schwartzman three weeks before the deadline to purchase the rights to another pic for $5 million, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to make another film without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory appear plans to make some other adaptation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 Advertizement, but the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures caused McClory'southward rights for an undisclosed corporeality,[4] and subsequently announced that it intended to make a series of Bond films, equally the visitor as well held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This movement prompted a circular of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-courtroom, forcing Sony to requite upward all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would proceed with another Bond film,[79] and connected his instance confronting MGM and Danjaq;[lxxx] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally immune Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical film accommodation of that novel the same year with Daniel Craig as James Bail. Ultimately, McClory'southward heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, assuasive the visitor to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon serial in the film Spectre.

On 4 December 1997, MGM announced that the company had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Over again from Schwartzman'south 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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  • Never Say Never Over again at Box Part Mojo
  • Never Say Never Once more at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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