No Time To Die HEAVY SPOILERS Final thoughts plus a rewrite pitch and thoughts on the future of Bond 

A damn fine pitch for No Time to Die. Agreed that Crag’s send off (assuming he should have ever played the role) should have been Skyfall, the second best of his series behind Casino Royale. Still, I’d take a critically disregarded A View to a Kill or Moonraker any day over any of the Craig ventures.

My gosh! Maybe a little bit of a ramble, but I'm still impressed by your ability to keep on delivering your thoughts without any long pauses or loss of your train of thought. It's something I wish I could do. It's not something that is easy to do. I've tried. Honestly, I rather like No Time To Die, but it's not anywhere near perfect. Your pitch for a rewrite... Damn! That is a story ark conclusion with guts! A lot of guts. Seriously, it would've been so truly dark in a grown-up way. I'm sad that you're now done with this film because I'd have loved to listen to an audio movie commentary from you. I'm still new to your channel but enjoying everything I'm seeing so far.

Thank you. I tend to agree with your opinion on the Daniel Craig Bond films. I had been waiting for your spoiler review ever since the movie came out.

I rewatched Goldfinger last night. It is a million times better than any of Daniel Craig's films.

Thanks Spencer, I thought I was the only person who hated the Craig films. My wife, on the other hand, loves'em.

It sounds like it has the same kind of problems we see in a lot of modern films - they're written by committee. There's no singular guiding artistic vision driving the ship, nevermind the mastery of someone like Fleming. Frankly I would have been shocked if the film turned out to be decent at all.

The only Craig Bond film I slightly liked was Quantum Of Solace. At least in terms of the story and overall tone it had a Bond like feel that I appreciated and enjoyed. The rest are just action movies with Daniel Craig playing himself and I simply could never get into them for the life of me. And this film is ESPECIALLY a good example of that.

I do agree with almost all of what you say here I will make an argument for the villain Safin. First off I’m 100% convinced he was originally Dr. No. The lone henchman at the end while he’s carrying Mathilde calling “Doctor” and the lack of him in the film tells me there’s scenes either revealing or make it obvious he’s Dr. No Now a lot of people shit on Safin for no laying out his plans, he has no motivation from killing Spectre to this world wide plot of releasing Heracles. Who are the buyers he’s selling this to? Why is he selling it? Why is he doing any of this? Obviously his motivations for Spectre is clear. He’s seeking revenge. I think his plans and way of taking them out though a bit convoluted are actually quite genius. He outsmarts the entire organization, and Blofelds plans of killing James. He’s 10 steps ahead of them the entire time and they don’t even know it. What I like about Safin is unlike 99% of Bond villains he DOESNT explain in excruciating detail to Bond or anyone what he’s doing and exactly how to stop it. He doesn’t go on a diatribe to Bond giving him every bit of detail he needs to ruin the plan. He stays purposefully mysterious to Bond and fills his head with misleading philosophical things that goes right over Bonds head. He stays ambiguous to a point Bond has no clue what he’s really doing. When Bond is running back to re open the bomb doors he shoots Bond numerous times and has him dead to rights, right there. Now admittedly he stupidly walks closer to Bond to be taken down BUT he had shot Bond enough that he would’ve died from the blood loss alone. Now to Safins genius “Insurance” the vile of Madeline and Mathildles DNA for Heracles. Again he’s 10 steps ahead of every one. He’s given this right in front of Madeline. She even asks what is that? He simply says “Insurance” again not giving her every detail she needs to tell Bond what he has. He keeps it purposefully ambiguous so he can’t be foiled. And IT WORKS. With all Bonds strength to throw Safin down and break his arm he STILL manages to defeat Bond and simply break the vile over his face robbing Bond of everything he thought he had. Again he had Bond dead from the gunshot wounds, and blood loss would’ve killed Bond even without being poisoned. But the added effect of the poison solidified that once again Safin won. Sure he was killed but as he said “my skills will remain long after I’m gone” Bond had no other options. If he even managed to escape that island that virus would eventually of gotten to them. As they saw with the Spectre members family. And what prophetic way to take them out! Safins whole family was killed, so he made sure all of their families were killed too. Not only did he manage to steal this virus from MI6, he altered it to be even more deadly, took out the most powerful crime syndicate in the world, and outsmarted the best 00 agent there’s ever been. I feel this character immediately gets shoved aside because people don’t see the larger picture of what he’s really doing and WHY he is the way he is. WHY his motivations are clouded and mysterious. Because he WANTS it that way. I think it’s a genius character who is unfortunately not used enough in the film BUT his presence looms from the start until he dies. His mere existence plagues the film the whole time in a way not a lot of other Bond villains have. I know you dislike the film, but I’d hope for a bit of recognition for the subtle genius Lyutsifer Safin really is.

You should make a video showing your home theatre set up.

I still haven't seen it... The minute I heard "We Have All the Time in the World" in one of the trailers, I lost interest

Against my better judgement, I enjoyed NTTD. There are definitely things about it I DON'T like, but I went with it. The first half in particular has some really well done sequences. And if they'd gone some other ways, Ana de Armas could have been an all-time great Bond Girl. Maybe because it's the 5th Craig movie certain aspects I'm not keen on went down easier.

I just streamed it, awful, awful, awful. What were they thinking ? Greetings.

I pretty much agree with you. I don't enjoy the craig films. I want fun not super sensitive bond. Great review. I recently found your channel.

What would you say to this for Bond 26.... Tarantino Fassbender Set around Formula 1

You seem to not understand (or choose not to believe) that the bond films have been rebooted multiple times. First timeline, 1962-1985. That was the same James bond, even though three actors portrayed him. Since then, each new actor has been a reboot. Second timeline, 1987-1989. Third timeline, 1995-2002. Fourth timeline, 2006-2021. For some reason you never grasped this until the Daniel Craig bonds, and now it's some new concept you're trying to reconcile with yourself.

I didn't care for it. The Craig Bonds are hit and miss for me Casino Royale is his best . I'm one of the few who like Quantum Of Solace, Yes it was a bit messy because of the writer's strike and they had to make what they had. I'm not a huge Skyfall fan it's Good , but you can tell when things start to really get overly serious . I liked Spectre but felt it was too long it was starting to get complicated . NTTD i felt was just too overly complicated and too many writers in the screenplay.

Exactly, No Time To Die did not feel like a James Bond movie. James Bond dying in No Time To Die was unacceptable! James Bond is a timeless character and therefore should NEVER die in a movie! I think Cary Joji Fukunaga was the wrong director for No Time To Die. Apparently he watched a bunch of the older James Bond movies to prepare for No Time To Die and OHMSS was the one he kept re-visting. As I have said before for the future of the James Bond series they need to go back to the traditional approach. Make each movie a stand-alone story because that concept worked for twenty movies straight! BTW, on November 6th I did a double-feature of both GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies. I have always loved those two and as I have said before they just keep getting better and better each time I watch them. They hold up so well all these years later!

Ah yes, No Time to Die. Or... OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED JAMES BOND! YOU BASTARDS!

Craig is honestly better than most. I'd say he's THE quintessential bond actor

I didn't hate it but i didn't love it. Its biggest sin was it was boring and i was like meh. And it desperately wanted to be OHMSS. But overall it was the worst Bond since Quantum of Solace. Supporting characters were paper thin. The plot was ridiculous Heracles or whatever. Craig looked disengaged and he was going through the motions. The score sucked except for the parts they lifted from OHMSS. The action didn't work either. Bond didn't get the girl this time either the tone was muted. Bond the family man. His death was nearly as bad as Captain Kirk's or Luke Skywalker's. They ruined the series made all the previous films pointless. But hey we wrecked it but James Bond will return, please see our reboot in a few years. I'm not as nuanced or forgiving as you are i thought the entire thing was idiotic. I have a deep loathing for the Craig films. I'm a Martin Campbell fan and other than the opening scene and song i think Casino Royale is crap. Just unadulterated garbage.