![]() ![]() Though I am slightly sad that Bond's daughter's soft toy, Dou Dou, was presumably caked with British Navy missiles as he was. I should be invested in Bond's demise, but the emotional core of this movie doesn't ring true. I wasn't moved, honestly, and there have definitely been times over the years where I've been certain the Daniel Craig era is Bond as I want to see it. This film doesn't justify it, though – we see Bond die at the end of a messy third act, on a generic villain's preposterous seen-it-before island base (self-aware or derivative creative choice? Surely the former, but either way, the flat result is the same).Īn overstuffed cast of MI6 characters then raise a toast to him. It's something James Bond the series hasn't done before. This is heightened by the presence of Bond's daughter, which the film oddly struggles to say outright is his daughter until the very end, despite strongly hinting at it numerous times.Ī Bond ending where he makes the big sacrifice works, on paper. Ultimately, the film hinges on your investment in the pair. I watched the start of No Time To Die while Bond enjoyed retirement life with Madeleine and wondered, 'do these two people actually have fun together?' The doomed Vesper Lynd romance from Casino Royale persists in the background of all these films – and Craig's chemistry with Eva Green was so memorable – that this newer relationship just doesn't measure up to it.
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