James Bond - No Time to Die

 

James Bond No Time to Die 2021

• Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
• Based on novel: no
• Cast: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomi Harris, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in
• Daniel Craig – Knives Out, the other Bond films, Defiance, The Golden Compass, Layer Cake, Road to Perdition, Lora Croft, Hotel Splendide, Elizabeth
• Ana de Amas – Knives Out, Blade Runner 2049
• Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody, Short Term 12
• Léa Seydoux – Spectre, L’enfant d’en haut, Robin Hood, Inglourious Basterds
• Ralph Fiennes – Hail Caesar, Harry Potter, the other Bond films, The Invisible Woman, Coriolanus, Cemetery Junction, The Reader, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, The End of an Affair, Sunshine, The English Patient, Strange Days, Schindler’s List
• Ben Whishaw – The Personal History of David Copperfield, Paddington 2, London Spy, the other Bond films, Suffragette, Cloud Atlas, The Hollow Crown, The Tempest, Bright Star, Layer Cake
• Naomi Harris – Our Kind of Traitor, Mandela, the other Bond films, Small Island, Pirates of the Caribbean, Miami Vice, Dinotopia
• Rory Kinnear – Years and Years, the other Bond films, The Casual Vacancy, The Imitation Game, The Hollow Crown, Broken, Secret Smile
• Jeffrey Wright – Only Lovers Left Alive, The Hunger Games, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Source Code, Cadillac Records, the other Bond films, Broken Flowers, Angels in America, Hamlet
• Christoph Waltz – Alita Battle Angel, Django Unchained, the other Bond films, Inglorius Basterds
• Why? Well, obviously
• Seen: 27 May 2023  

For the record, in my opinion Daniel Craig is the best Bond and his Bond films are the best ones.

If you want to know the story, check IMDb for the resumé. It’s too complicated for me. It seems that everybody in the world hates this film. I can’t see why. What did they expect? Branagh’s Hamlet?

This is Bond. Car chases, shout-outs, cool technology, fantastic landscapes, a world on the verge of annihilation by evil forces, and like all of Craig’s Bond films, good emotional drama. Great cast as well.

I like it.

Good-bye, and thank you, Daniel Craig. 

4 * of 5