Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga. Cast: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Ana de Armas. 163 min. Action/Thriller.
- After Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre, and finally No Time to Die, Daniel Craig is the first James Bond to complete a multi-movie story arc, through a great/weak/great/weak/great sine wave, respectively. All five of his movies have story connections - never done before to this extent with other Bonds. And the end of Craig's role as Bond couldn't be more perfect.
- This isn't only limited to James Bond, as in this longest-running of all 25 Bond movies, long-time villain Blofeld and long-time CIA buddy Felix Leiter all complete story arcs - if you know what I mean.
- Obvious hints prepare us for a possible non-white/female becoming the next "Jane Bond". If I were to choose, I'd go with Ana de Armas, as she has a short but terrific run as an amateur agent splendidly completing a mission (at the time of this writing, no one has asked my opinion).
- Strange how Covid postponed the release of the movie, and the plot is about virus-like nanobot biological weapons. Conspiracy-theories abound ...
- Strong themes of "family". James Bond is not a single-minded action hero anymore, and has other, more important concerns which dictate how he handles a mission. The only other prior Bond movie that approached the hero as real person, was the 1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service, where Bond got married, and his bride was killed at the end. Of course, here we hear the soundtrack and song of that movie throughout, and its famous line: "We have all the time in the world ..."
MoGo's rating: 9/10
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