Director Cary Joji Fukunaga
Stars Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas & Rami Malek
Rated M
Score 4/6

James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

Alright, I suppose I went into this expecting that No Time to Die was going to be worse than it was. The rumours of fanbaiting by people involved with the production and the number of times the script for the movie was supposed to have been rewritten really did not get me excited enough to go out and watch this on opening day. Now if you look at every single Bond movie in the franchise you realise that the movies reflect the attitudes of society at the time that they were released and if you look at Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond, you’ll realise that the movies Casino Royale to No Time to Die have a more serious tone when compared to the rest of the franchise. It seems that the serious tone that was taken with Daniel Craig’s tenure as Bond could have forced the executives into a corner that is going interesting to see how they deal with the end of the movie if the franchise plans to movie forward with the James Bond character. If there is a future for the franchise, I can only hope that the filmmakers return to the fun that other Bond movies seemed to embrace.
Daniel Craig gave the kind of performance that you would expect from him as Bond while I couldn’t help but think that the reason Lashana Lynch’s portrayal of Nomi felt a lacking was because of the supposed rewrites to the script. I enjoyed Ana de Armas performance as Paloma while Rami Malek as Lyutsifer Safin is possibly the best portrayal of a villain under Craig’s tenure as Bond.