No Time To Die review: Daniel Craig’s last hurrah is disappointing and strangely anti-climactic
3 years, 5 months ago

No Time To Die review: Daniel Craig’s last hurrah is disappointing and strangely anti-climactic

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Cary Joji Fukunaga has made a smashing piece of action cinema with No Time to Die – it’s just a shame it had to be a Bond film. Craig’s Bond, early on, echoes the words of George Lazenby in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, famously uttered while he clutched the dead body of his wife Tracy : “We have all the time in the world.” When Craig says that same line, the strings of Louis Armstrong’s “We Have All the Time in the World” swelling in the background, it takes on a new meaning. To find out what others are saying and join the conversation scroll down for the comments section or And despite Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s much-publicised contributions to the film’s script, No Time to Die hardly feels like the radical feminist rewrite we were promised. Ana de Armas’s newbie agent Paloma feels like the audition for her upcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic, and Lashana Lynch, as a rival 00, is such a force of charisma that it feels pointless to look for a new Bond when surely the future of the franchise is already standing right there.

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