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Audio balance actually seems rather good. The movie and effects are in the background as they should be, since the focus is and should be on your voice
Totally agreed on the halfway thing. Especially the nanobots themselves. They're established as being able to target specific people and thus being perfect for assassinations, but then the villains are like "Hey, we can make these target everyone" at which point it's just a generic bioweapon.
Big problem is also that in ANY OTHER James Bond movie, there'd be a solution to an "insurmountable" problem. And ESPECIALLY if it has to do with computers and technology. In 100% of movies, computer and technology problems can be solved by more computers and technology.
I think the idea is that he was selling tailor-made versions of the virus to a plethora of bad guys, all of whom would want it targeted to affect certain specific people (namely: their enemies).
When Saffin executed Spectre I had the mindset that he was pretty much on the same side as the protagonists. Sure, his methods were messy, and he also wanted to kill Blofield, but that was more or less fine with me as a viewer. So even though he had massive moral problems, I never thought of him as an antagonist, until he suddenly turned into a full blown super villain with his own island and threatening all life, I could just not see how he got to this position and those motivations.
Same thing. I didn't understand how all of a sudden he wanted to attack the world. Because all that was stated was he hated Spectre and wanted them dead.
I kept thinking about this the whole last arc of the movie. Like why even go through the trouble to get spectre and not just.... do the world and be done with it?
The sad thing is, it's THE Bond movie where nothing should have been easy. Since he makes the ultimate sacrifice at the end, it should have been the one movie that always put him on his toes, having him be always barely making it, and overcoming incredible odds only to be cornered at the end to a point where he can only pull off a draw.
Exactly this. This is what bothered me so much. When you spend 95% of your movie establishing Bond as basically invincible, his death feels like it comes out of left field. Every situation he was put into in this movie should have taken its toll on him. Every time he'd have to have paid a small price, until the end, where he was fresh out and had only his life to pay with.
As someone having experienced a perceived sort of betrayal, I can identify with Bond’s easy leap to believe Madelines betrayal. When you’re conditioned to being betrayed, and in the light of the slightest evidence your brain emotionally downshifts. This cuts the frontal lobe which makes rational thought impossible.
As a legendary "secret agent" that often challenge some of the most diabolical mind in the word, I think audience allowed to expect him not to be so easily manipuldated.
I honestly would expect the best secret agent on the planet to be more logical and analytical to a situation like this than just go apeshit and emotional. Because you know? The main problems he has had in a whole bunch of Craig movies (if not all of them) have been detonated by being emotional AF... so one would think MI6 would basicly send him to get trained in mental defenses or torture training or send him accompanied or something. You are MI6. You can't compromise your missions on emotionally immature agents.
@@4Everlast I never said none of that mattered. but yes it did play a big part in the unimaginative action pieces when you have a Bond under no threat of ever being killed because the faceless enemy henchman cant land a single shot at him despite unloading a full round at him from a few metres away only for Bond to turn around and kill them all instantly with no effort.
I thought Madeline's secret was that Saffin pretty much adopted her after killing her mother. Then I was completely confused when he sat in that therapy session and she had no clue who he was. Also I'm cool with him having a god complex, but I would have liked a Light Yagami approach and him wanting to destroy the MI6 because they created the poison stuff.
I would have assumed he would have trained himself from adolescence to be a ruthless threat after his family was slaughtered. I was expecting a fire ass hand to hand fight scene at the end. Disappointing movie overall. At least Jeffrey Wright was great
Biggest problem with Saffin, the actor was way too young for the role, so while they probably wanted to take the angle you mention, they decided to have him falling in love with her instead.
you dont take half measures when you are god and no matter how many bad people light would have killed or even all of them, he could have never freed world from despair, sorrow, pain and suffering. It is very important to have balance of both good and bad like yin and yang cause thats how progress and evolve. Without any inherent challenge or drive your life would be just a pointless existence, full of emptiness and existential crisis. I do not mean that bad dont deserve punishment or retribution its just that light approach was quite flawed and as joker says all it takes is just one bad day.
Yeah, then they could have thrown in that the Skyfall villain also sold DNA records of MI6 agents to the highest bidder. Better tying the movies together and the moral consequences would have been more severe with MI6 giving their enemies the tools to their own downfall.
What's kind of funny is that the movie acknowledges that there's nothing particularly new about Rami Malek's villain. Bond interrupts his evil speech and tells him "you're just the latest in a long line of cruel, little men" (or something to that effect). It's a great line for Bond to have, and it's kind of a shame that after he says that, Rami resumes his speech like nothing happened and they continue to play it straight.
Craig's Bond had been doing more of that as his bit of the series has gone on. I do think that part of the intention of his bit in the series was to have a range of Bond from beginning to end, and in that line, in the later films, when he's making those quips, it's with more of a sense of irony than when Connery was making his one-liners.
No, it's a stupid misandrist line conjured up by women who hate men and want to write women into everything. Because women can do anything, after all! Except make a profitable and well received Bond film.
In my opinion, the first hour of the movie was the best. The cinematography , the story line and the pace of the film was excellent. After first hour , it felt dragged .
I felt that this movie was less of a classical Bond film and more of a farewell to the legacy of Daniel Craig Bond. You can have your own opinion on it, but I actually enjoyed seeing Craig on the big screen one final time as 007.
Same, most complaints people have are easily answered through the entire series of development, and the rest are just “I hate it cause I’m angry at black female James Bond”
Has anyone else thought about the fact that Bond has an EMP in his watch and that he could just use it to kill the virus since it consists of microbots or so?
@@TheAwesomeDarkNinja How is e.g. someone trained as a legendary assassin with a long history and many connections a Mary Sue for being able to get out of sticky situations? And I assume you're suggesting they're the same as characters everyone complains about like a first timer jedi who's more powerful and smarter than everyone around her with no more than 5 minutes of combat experience or relevant knowledge? A lot of superheroes are also experts in some scientific field or have a military background, but of course there are some scenes where they have to luck out, but it's not the definition of their character, at least I can't think of one that's like that. And them getting saved by plot power isn't usually the highlight of their story or screen time unlike the type of characters most complain about.
@@tubester358 Ye. The only Mary Sue moment for John Wick was when he was tied to the chair and they were trying to suffocate him, and his assassin freind ended up shooting some of them saving him. Other then that...was all him. The execution of the plot was real nice. Personally it's irrating, everyone mentions plot armor way too much, people just can't enjoy a hero succeeding. Granted, sometimes it's overtly there, Rey in Star Wars, Batman taking on Superman with prep time, Deathstroke single handely taking on nearly everyone in the Justice League, etc.
My biggest problem with this movie is Bond’s fatalistic attitude at the end. This is so out of character because Bond is never fatalistic. He is always looking for a way out, a way to survive. Instead we have this image of him standing helplessly, awaiting his fate. Bond never gives up, ever. And regardless of whether he could never come in contact with Madeleine and his daughter again, he would have figured out a way to keep in touch with them, to be a part of their lives, to watch his daughter grow up, if only at a distance. So I agree: the ending, like a lot of the movie, seemed forced.
I would think of this as Bond just getting tired probably. Let's be fair, he was an old man, he was emotionally damaged a few times through the movie, and especially the realization of him being the father. I think that was definitely a first for Bond, and considering these aspects he thought it best to just take an eternal break now.
I think him accepting his fate and expressing his love for his daughter humanised him more than any moment that’s happened to him in the whole franchise. This was like him getting his soul back after losing it in the pre-credits of Casino Royale.
Mikkelsen and Bardem had the best written Charakters and are also the best Actors of all the Bond Villains . Exception for Christoph Waltz but Blofeld was teribbly written and wasted in this „Timeline“.
The conveniences are just imperfections in the storytelling, the big flaw is the villain honestly, I totally agree that the motivation set up for him in the beginning is the one they should have stuck with, but he kills all of Spectre halfway through the movie, so it’s just over and they have to give him some kind of new motivation that’s just uninteresting. With some changes this could have been one of the best Bond movies, as it stands, to me it’s a satisfactory conclusion to Craig’s Bond story, not one that goes above and beyond.
Yeah. I loved pretty much everything about the movie aside from the main villain feeling like a complete afterthought. Heck, if the main villain had been killed alongside spectre and everything else was just going on post-mortal, by some AI, it pretty much would have had the same impact. Heck, maybe made it a bit more logical because even though an AI becoming omnicidal because humanity sucks is an old hat, it still made more sense to me than whatever Mr. Robot's motivation was supposed to be.
imagine if killing spectre was the endgame, and bond is forced to make the unimaginable decision to cooperate with spectre to protect madeline my point being spectre and madeline was the heart of the film, and once that was gone the film just flatlined
@@stripey566 I don’t know about that. What I find to be really interesting is that if say Safin’s goal was to kill all of Spectre with Heracles, then he wouldn’t be using it any differently than M was considering doing. I think that’s so interesting, that an action you yourself considered doing seems absolutely terrifying when someone else exercises that kind of power, that you’re able to see how fucked up, dangerous and wrong it is as soon as you step outside of your own perspective for a moment. The whole motivation for stopping Safin would be that allowing him to use Heracles for any purpose is unacceptable because no one should have that much power. Also, you could have this like development with Safin, where his experience with Madeleine initially makes him want to only target Spectre operatives and not their families, but when Madeleine and Mathilde later reject him he changes his mind and programs Heracles to target their families like he was doing before he spared Madeleine, and he then poisons Bond with the virus due to his relationship with Madeleine. With that you could have this parallell between Bond and Safin where both of them have at one point been utterly untrusting and apathetic towards other people due to a traumatic experience AND both of them through their experience with Madeleine begin to heal that part of themselves and regress once they think they can’t trust her anymore, but Bond is the only one of them who comes back from that again by admitting to his own faults and leaving the past behind. Bond is able to look to the future to motivate his heroism, Safin is fixated on the past that motivates his hateful vengeance.
They should've just made Blofeld the bad guy again. Have Bond retired and actually being a Dad. Open with his mundane life of retirement. Have Felix Leiter come tell him against M's wishes that blofeld escaped. Bond confronts M and blofeld kidnaps the family so he has to team up with BLM7 to rescue his family. Blofeld wants his kid to target the dna virus against bond, then take out a bunch of world leaders. They took so long to build up blofeld and spectre, killing them in a cut away and a single scene really makes the whole Craig series fall apart.
I agree, the movie was on the long side as it is, if they had taken a scene to establish that the weapon couldn't be removed once you've got it, that would have been an extra few minutes without really improving the story. I do think that the cemetery bit isn't really that big of a deal, they literally just established that he was still trapped by her memory and probably dealing with flashbacks. For him to get extremely paranoid, especially when she received the phone call and be downright suicidal, doesn't seem that unreasonable. I do agree that Safin is kind of a weak villain in a lot of ways, not as bad as some of them, but ultimately, he does achieve what no other Bond villain has achieved. Personally, the ending did bother me a bit because it seems a bit out of character for Bond to just give up like that, there were multiple times in other movies where he appeared to be even more screwed and kept fighting it out until something else got him out of it. Diamonds are Forever springs to mind where he's being cremated alive and trying to get out of the coffin, even though that's objectively no better when they let him out for not having given them the diamonds they were after. Obviously, the way those cremation furnaces work, just getting out of the coffin doesn't actually save him, but he's at least trying to do something rather than just pulling out a cigarette and having one last smoke.
Thats where the potential for Safin lies. You really feel that unlike Blofeld, Greene, Le Chiffre or White, who were almost born as stereotypically evil, greedy self serving sociopaths, Safin was doing all of this because he was still just a little boy who never escaped his catatonia and is trapped in a state of constant shell shock. I feel his motivations do then make sense. He kills Spectre as revenge for his family's death and the physical and mental injuries inflicted on him as a result. Like Silva, he is just a really damaged person, trying to regain control and to make sense of his trauma. And its the lengths he will go to to alleviate his trauma and make sense of life and death, as well as the loss of the family unit that make him very compelling, very disturbing, very tragic and very terrifying. His goal to unleash Heracles upon the world doesn't come from the same place as someone like Blofeld, but because he has come to this delusion that people really want nasty things to happen to them. Because in his head there has to be a reason that seemingly out of nowhere he and his family were poisoned at a dinner table, just because.
bond looking to play the victim has been daniel craig's character the whole series though, he doesnt trust anyone, and then he has only ever opened to one person (vesper), and she betrayed him so i think his reaction is perfectly in character
I loved Filmento's character motivation ideas for Safin. Him forcing Madeline and her daughter to be his family because her father owes him that would have been brilliant.
This film has 2-3 different scripts fighting each other: one where it retains the brutal and grounded realism of the Craig era as is the usnused concepts of said era, one with the cartoonish antics and self parody humor of the Brosnan era, and one with the trademarks of the traditional James Bond film. As a result, it's a well-polished mess. Also, Daniel Craig and Ralph Fiennes are probably angry and pissed on the set of this film. Their out-of-character moments feel really off over the course of the film.
@@synlion, all of the scenes where Bond is yelling and looking pissed like he's in the wrong film to begin with, and M being so out of place his version makes decisions that even his predecessors wouldn't crossed a line.
The fact that the goons were SO INACCURATE really took me out of the film at the final battle. Like, really! Statistically at least one of those thousands of bullets should have hit its mark. Was it so hard to give them some high-tech body armour that gets them shot once or twice without killing them. Like, a skin that hinders bullets enough to not enter the body, just penetrate the skin. At least then they get to look cool still haha
You can be a "failure" just based on personal standard. It's like a straight A student suddenly getting a c+ grade. It's still a passing grade but you know it could have been so much higher
@@TheXabl0 The movie is very flawed. Describing those flaws especially compared to your favor movies of all time doesn't make you toxic. I can point out 20 flaws with Aliens but it's still an all time great movie. With No Time To Die is there is lot more bad than good.
This is brilliant. After waiting so long to watch No Time To Die at the cinema, I left the theater with a kind of weird feeling: it was enjoyable, but kinda disappointing. But I couldn’t explain why. Well, now I know why. Thank you for this brilliant analysis. 👍
the fact that so many people thought this was a decent film upon its release is what is really wrong with the state of cinema: the audience. awful script, awful character development. nothing to relate to, nothing human, only cheap lazy writing. how do so many people not see that??? its sad
I reckon another big issue for the film is bond never even meets Staffin until the end. If Staffin was a little more personal for bond aswell as Madeline, it would have immediately made it a more compelling watch
Another great Filmento video. No opinions, just mistakes and ways to avoid them. If film writers watched your videos their films would definitely improve. Keep up the good work please.
Big problem in this movie is that in ANY OTHER James Bond movie, there'd be a solution to an "insurmountable" problem like nanobots. And especially if it has to do with computers and technology. In 100% of movies, computer and technology problems can be solved by more computers and technology.
Still pissed that they wasted, ONCE AGAIN, another phenomenal actor as the villain. Rami Malek had maybe 20 mins of screen time in a near 3 hour film. Blofeld had even more screen time in Spectre and even he was barely in it! What a waste of talent! This is why Javier Bardem in Skyfall will always make it the best Bond film.
@The Dislike Man Yes! And far less… or none at all of the other chick who tries replacing Bond. Could have cut her from the movie completely and nothing would have changed… hell, give her screentime to Malek!
He played his scenes incredibly though, you have to admit. What they gave him was well enough to show how amazing he was, although I agree it would've been better if he was given more screen time.
@The Dislike Man anna de armas' character was sooo much more charming and likeable. Watching the new 007 (is it bad i cant remember her name?) I just found her soo incredibley unlikeable. When she wanted to give bond back the 007 it was like k great but clearly theres more important shit going on and all you can think of is THAT? Priorities. The only reason she was there was to pander.
The idea you proposed at 12:15 is almost exactly what I thought the movie was about based on the trailer; Safin saw himself as the "hero" that was willing to go to the lengths MI6 and others weren't willing to in order to stop organizations like Specter. Really good analysis. I'd still say I enjoy the movie, but I'm definitely willing to recognize the significant flaws in its story.
I like that so much of it comes off as easy, Bond has been doing this stuff forever. The scene that really stuck with me was with the new young Q is trying to explain how all the old-fashioned needlessly complex soviet era machinery works but Bond looks around and knows immediately how it all works because he's been doing this since this equipment was state of the art and he's spent a lot of time in Soviet-era bases.
Man, I have said this a million times on a million platforms. Bond didn't just die because he can't be with his family. He died because he *cannot come into contact with ANYONE.* These nanobots transfer from person to person. What if he meets someone, and that guy meets someone and then that guy meets Madeleine? Leaving the island would mean risking his family's life even if he decides never to meet them.
Ooo, a spin off movie with Madeline on the run, can't get close to anyone. Trusting the wrong person could kill you because there's a spreading plague of nano stuff out to get just You!
Ye, why did people not get this? Bond literally killed Blom because the nanobots transferred from Madeline's wrist to his hand. Q says multiple times that the nanobots won't ever expire and given that they can be transferred on contact, isn't it obvious that they would eventually make their way around the world. The fact that they affect anyone in Madeline's bloodline means that the nanobots could spread among thousands of people and surfaces, meaning Bond's family would never ever continue, even if one person contacts bond. Hell, I'd even worry that the nanobots didn't get fully destroyed in the missile inferno.
My grandpa was a super fan of Jame Bond movies. Apparently would have VHS tapes of all the older Bond movies according to my dad. He died before I was born, so me and my dad made a small tradition to see the new James Bond movies when they come out. We saw Skyfall, Spectre and No Time all in theaters and it was a good time. No Time to Die I thought was a good enough movie, not the best but still good and a nice send off for Craig as Bond
No Time To Die feels like a perfect point to "take a break" from the franchise, I wouldnt mind if they wait 10 years to make a new Bond movie. And it did feel like the end of an era.
I think a good Bond villain would be like Bane from the comics. A highly skilled, extremely intelligent, and physically superior force. He breaks out a bunch of the villains Bond has caught, gets them all to each attack him in their own way, but never playing to win, just wear him down. Then after a week of nonstop crazy shit, he goes home to rest and Bane is waiting, ready to break him. *Sorry for a late edit but Bane was a South American revolutionary for hire (I'm pretty sure) and had toppled several governments before he went after Batman. He was a master strategist as well as a physical force.
@@arghonandi6818 Well I don't mean to use the actual character of Bane, just someone with a similar background and like the vid says, we'd have a villain that was a threat all by himself (he has no connection to the people he frees, just a shared hatred for Bond). Basically anyone without a huge shadow organization behind him, just a few guys. I mean, comic Bane was a South American revolutionary that was overthrowing governments, and he just put those skills to work on a tough opponent. Plus an goal other than money would be nice. Like Bond got his family killed interfering in his South American paramilitary activity or something.
@@joshtimusprime5354 Yeah i can see that for sure. I should also clarify I wasn't picturing Craig taking on my guy, it doesn't fit the world they already made. Maybe the next series, if it fits tonally.
Wow, I was literally about to write about the same thing. And I do mean literally, I had the Knightfall example ready to go. The movie goes out of its way to show Bond easily surviving every situation he's put in without a scratch when the appropriate thing would have been for each situation to wear him down, so when he reached the end he was well and truly spent and there would be a proper justification for him to be surprised by the villain's attack other than "Oops, I forgot to be careful even though I knew somebody was here".
As an aspiring author, I spend hours and hours of planning the big bads endgame, making his motivation believable, forging him into a hero in his own eyes, and then I see shit like this greenlit and on the big screen. Damn.
@@idvargas that depends, I'm writing in German and proper translation takes time. German stuff could come this year, English maybe in 2 or 3, depending on how cooperative the publisher is
Another excellent breakdown - I too enjoyed the film overall but you totally nailed most of its weak points. M commissioning a super bioweapon seemed a bit inconsistent for his character from the previous films too. When it came to a wider agenda for the villain I was expecting that list of targets to be something like a list spies that failed to stop Spectre. A sort of personal smiert spionam campaign for Safin, but turned out to be nothing. One thing that annoys me with the Daniel Craig era in general is just how often he's retired or quit from her majesty's secret service, it's mega tired and adds to the boredom.
The whole retirement angle doesn't even make sense from the Bond as a codename angle. Which is a great way to explain how he could be doing that job for so long and how different actors can be Bond in-universe: Having them being different agents taking on the job and name. So retirement would simply mean handing over to a new agent. Only reason to come back would be, if the successor gets killed or MI6 needs the experience and knowledge of the old one.
This was a movie that when I was watching it, I was like wow, this is really epic, and not overly convoluted like some of the other Craig movies. But, then as soon as it was finished I was like meh. I think you nailed it with the convenience, and half-way things. Bond didn't even give Madeline a chance to explain anything, and she at least deserved that, and was out of character for Bond. With how much she meant to him you think he would get to the bottom of it instead of just cutting her out. The ending with the villain just letting the girl walk away just screamed lazy and cop-out to me, and then Bond just saying yeah ok, there isn't a way to fix this virus in me so I will just die. He could easily have attempted to survive and then have scientists in Hazmat suits quarantine him till they develop a cure, or at least try. The nanobot thing was awkward, and didn't really make sense to me from a Scientific standpoint. I guess this was a lazy way to change the script after Covid hit. An EMP like what was on his watch or something would have killed the nanobots. Blofelt's bionic eye was also a wtf. This was a half-assed story wrapped in a slick presentation.
WHAT was epic?? Everything good about it we already saw in the trailers! One of the most un-fun Bonds to date. Zero chemistry, zero creative kills and action, it was way to safe and beyond bland.
So, so happy to see proper criticism in this comments section. The amount of numb nuts out there who think the worst thing about the film is that Bond got temporarily replaced by a woman (even though he had retired) is maddening. Wokeness has nothing to do with this film's structural failings. I haven't enjoyed a Bond film since Casino Royale cos it's the only one that's managed to pull of the balance between Craig's gruffer take on the character and the inherent silliness of the stories. They're kids stuff in a poorly fitting tuxedo.
I really agree with your opinion. This movie is basically music building up powerful but the beatdrop never came. This compared to Skyfall, Bond can survive through a lot easily. The script is very inconsistent, like at the beginning it was established that Safin wanted revenge. At the climax, he just wants to be some kind of god that can control people. They could have used that first motivation like you said to kill every member of Spectre around the world. It made no sense that the entire organisation would just die at that meeting for Blofeld’s birthday. Another thing, they removed Paloma too early. I really thought she would come back later to take revenge for Felix but no, she did not hear news of his death at all. Overall, the plot was just dragging around all over the movie. Still, the movie is enjoyable to watch.
6:58 his death A BIT forced??? producers literally lied, when they said that they put Danny Boyle out from directors chair because he wanted to kill Bond in the end, but producers wanted Bond to stay alive
Pretty sure Daniel Craig was the one who demanded his character to be killed off so they wouldnt call him back, same case as Harrison Ford demanding Han to be killed in Ep7
@@Jose-se9pu So that was dumb if its true. there is some characters who just CAN`T die like Godzilla, like Rocky Balboa, like 007. REAL Bond will sleep with Lady Death and then move on, doing some stylish action under sunset`s shining
@@thatllbeawesome361 to be fair, Godzilla has died several times, but he always comes back somehow, and not because of a reboot, just because he's that awesome. In one movie they sucked him into a mini man-made black hole, and he still came back. In another, they dropped him into a volcano, and he still came back. In yet another, he died, but all his power was absorbed by his son, thus continuing his legacy. You can't treat James Bond like Godzilla. One's a giant monster, the other is just a man (a very awesome one, but...).
@@ggrarl man, yes I can threat him that way and I will - some characters not designed to die on screen and that`s who Bond is. The name of the movie is literally says No Time To Die - that`s what I`m talking about, it`s a fake 007 movie
Yes, she was the only good part of the film and then they dumped her almost immediately (Ana was hired only because Craig recommended her after being her co-star in "Knives Out" and truly impressed with her acting ability). What should have happened IMHO was that Madeline WAS trying to set up Bond, making Bond's dumping her a legitimate action rather than a contrivance. Then he meets Ana's Paloma in Cuba and she, as the new and energetic Bond girl and secret agent and love interest, puts a spring in his step as he, in a fashion, trains her to be his replacement. Then, you have Madeline (instead thinking she is Blofeld's ACTUAL daughter, not knowing that Blofeld had Safrin kill her real parents) torn between naively following her pseudo-father down an evil rabbit hole of world domination and her lingering feelings for Bond as she is pregnant with his child. Then once Bond is forced together with Madeline again it creates this kind of emotional triangle between Bond, Paloma, and Madeline. Madeline finally decides to confront Blofeld and his henchman after learning the truth and SHE is the one infected with the nanobots, and then sacrifices herself in a final selfless act because she saves Bond as a last loving gesture. Bond then has to save his daughter from the clutches of Blofeld and Safrin with the help of Paloma. Bond then walks off into the sunset with his daughter, grieving somewhat due to the tragic end of Madeline, leaving Paloma to take up the reins as a fresh faced 00 agent.
@@dan_hitchman007 love it. i'm 100% with you on this. now THAT would have been a film! edit: In fact I just saved your comment to a word document so I can read it again years from now and Mandela effect it into my own reality as the conclusion to Craig's arc. Thx.
I think the beginning scene with the bulletproof car when bond just sits there serves a greater purpose, like he wanted to see what Madeline would do or how she would react considering he’s thinking she betrayed him and it’s actually well done
This deeply, deeply flawed movie is actually the most enjoyable Daniel Craig Bond movie for me and my girlfriend. Loved every minute of it, and I love all the rest of the Bond movies, save Spectre, that one was horrid
Honestly, I don't think it was particularly flawed, most of this stuff couldn't be addressed in the movie due to issues with the run time. It was 2 and a half hours long as it is, addressing some of these things would likely have pushed it over 3 hours and not really made the movie more enjoyable. If we're going to talk about flaws, Quantum of Solace would like a word.
@@Taz-yr6xd IMO the worst will always be the Man With The Golden Gun. An old opinion to be sure, but despite the many bad Bond films, it will be the only to be so bad that it's good.
Love the point about Safin’s contradictory motivations. I’ve been telling my family for months and they didn’t even notice. It ruined the whole film for me.
This is the reason I loved Skyfall more than any Bond film. Because it has perfect balance of Action and Drama, movie talks more about human side of James Bond's character and most importantly gives best tribute to character M. After that casino royale was perfect too and has the best story.
I agree with many of your points. The only thing I’d say regarding the enemies being too easy, pretty much every sequence results in failure for Bond, which somewhat makes up for the enemy being too easy to kill.
yeah, I think in terms of the boat escape, I never thought it would be difficult for him to get out, my concern was whether he'd be able to save felix as well.
Glad that I like many have spotted all those "conveniences" and "easy" weakness of this film. The only thing I could praise about this film is some of the action scenes are actually pretty good.
Also - sorry, but I just don't buy his relationship with Swan. There's zero on-screen chemistry for me and it all feels very contrived. In effect, it saps the film of so much emotional punch. Worst element of both Spectre and this.
My main problem with the movie was that in order to get that contrived ending it had to make Bond look like a total moron. He just believes his wife betrayed him without investigating, without keeping tabs on her, without waging a personal war on Spectre for ruining his happiness, etc. I didn't hate it but it was so bland and, as pointed out, the villains were dull.
Honestly, that wasn't his wife, and they had already established that he was suffering from PTSD beforehand. I can see people seeing it as being dumb, but I do think that a better case can be made for him being concussed and still suffering from PTSD and paranoia than simply being an idiot. One of the ways in which the Craig Bond is different from previous ones, is that he isn't Teflon. The only other Bond that seemed to really be affected by what went on was Lazenby, and we never got to see what would have happened in the Next movie when he went after Blofeld.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade I understand that's what they were going for (distrust of women because of Vesper), but he left MI6 for this woman. He loved her so much to upend his entire life and yet he didn't look in on her or make sure she was guilty? I mean if she had then killing her would seem justified. But no, they had to keep him stupid in order for the plot to work. His refusal to interrogate her, her refusal to tell him she's pregnant, the fact Bond is too stupid to assume Blofeld may be playing him. But you are right, Craig's Bond is different from the others in that he's far more gullible than the others. It's kind of why I don't really care that they killed him. Maybe this Bond needed to die so we can hopefully get back to the cool Bond who doesn't get in his feelings so easily.
Agree with most of this. I was really disappointed in the lack of commitment from the movie, and it left me feeling very underwhelmed by the story points. I did think the action and visual aesthetic were both good, and much improved from Spectre. Two especially annoying points were: 1) Madeline should have had a more impactful secret*. 2) Bond 'dying' felt underwhelming because there wasn't any tension leading to it. Yes, there was a reason he had to stick around, but it didn't feel tense... it didn't feel like his sacrifice was relevant (for reasons outlined in this video essay: we didn't understand Safin's plan, or who the buyers were). *if it was meant to be the Daughter, I never got the feels from Bond. It didn't seem to matter too much to him, even though he went through the motions of being protective.
In truth the part why Bond turns his back on Madeline is because he has trust issues so I actually liked that. He doesn’t want his heart to be broken so he broke her heart instead (just to be safe)
Now talk about the best in that Bond iteration: Casino Royale (Bub, you should make a review about Disney’s biggest failure but Brad Bird’s most personal movie: Tomorrowland)
I actually loved this movie. I'm surprised how much I enjoyed it. I'd be fine if it was the last 007 movie ever. It had a decent ending and actually with a sense of finality. If the next bond sucks no time to die is the last 007 movie in my mind.
Yeah, it had it's issues, but I think it was a great ending note for Craig's Bond. Great Bond action Sequences, a pretty good, even if sometimes misplaced, sense of wit, and enough fan service to be enjoyable without drowning out the movie like Spectre did. I saw the film twice. First with my father who a long time fan who has read the books, and second with my best friend who is new to the franchise. We all really liked it. It hit like a Bond Movie to us despites is writing problems. I'm hopeful that despite the hate a lot of people are giving it now, it will be remembered as a not-fantastic, but very fun Bond Film, like Diamonds are Forever, a View To a Kill, and Tomorrow Never Dies.
I feel a deep irony, personally, in that they've been desperately trying to be "different" and to modernise James Bond, but all they actually did was repeat the exact same set of plot points endlessly, constantly keep referencing the old classics and going all retro 60s in style. With No Time to Die it doesn't even feel like a James Bond film, it feels like just a bunch of ideas and unnecessary big twists all cobbled together and given an enormous budget. The relationship felt completely empty and as forced as the writing, the villain felt like an unfinished idea with no motivation, they IMO wasted the garden of death (from YOLT novel) by just throwing it in this movie at the end in an utterly slapdash and superficial manner. Craig still doesn't even feel really like James Bond, I always end up watching him and feeling that he's someone's dad trying way too hard to act like James Bond, being angry and miserable all the time and posing and walking very stiffly.
Would really love a Arcane breakdown on this series, about how they do their characters and how they can make them so lovable in such little time spread over episodes, and why Jinx in particular is a perfect anti-hero, shes evil by any metric but shes still so loveable and you want to root for her no matter what she does! She steals the show for me every second shes on screen and i dont know why, i'd love it if you could walk us through how riot managed to do that!
Exactly my criticisms. Thank you for this video. I am so frustrated by how low-stake most action sequences are and how contrived the plot is. There are some cool sequences. The highrise invasion sequence, the misty forest fight. They are at least gorgeous to look at. But the whole movie feels like a disrespectful parody to Craig's past Bond movies. Fans all know that Bond just doesn't die or get shot easily, but at least he felt genuinely vulnerable when facing deadly henchmen in Casino Royale. But here in No Time To Die, he has the magical power to turn everyone around into a blind stormtrooper. Madeline is the love of his life, but he wouldn't give her a chance to explain herself properly (also, after leaving Madeline, I thought Bond would at least try to chase down clues and eliminate potential threats, but no he didn't do that). The plot is filled with such frustrating contrivances. The car chase before the forest fight reminded me of Burnout 3, and that made me LOL in an ironic way.
I was expecting just a list of plotholes, but this is much more thoughtful than I expected. While I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, I agree on almost all points. I especially appreciated the analysis that it's not just about closing plotholes or providing explanations, but about resolving plot moments in a way that feels weighty and satisfying. I completely agree about how Saffin's motivations needed to not only be clearer, but also made part of his character's personal story arc, rather than a result of a sudden onset of generic megalomania. Your examples around revenge and surrogate family would have been an excellent way of resolving this! Such a pity they didn't go that route. Another thing that troubled me even while I was enjoying the movie was the lackluster way in which Felix's death was handled. Similar to Blofeld, this is a major character, and one that is so important to the character that he describes him as a "brother." Couldn't his ending have been handled in such a way as to bring closure to their long association? We never see real evidence of their closeness. In fact, Bond doesn't initially take the job out of any such sentimentality; he does so only after his conversation with Nomi makes him realize something larger is at play between MI6 and the CIA. In any case, fixing these issues could have made the movie great. I still think it's a good film, but the tragedy is in the missed potential.
Filmento, I know you don’t usually do this but I would love to watch a video of your rewrite for No Time To Die. Even if it’s just a quick synopsis, whether or not you would have Blofeld as the main villain or Staffin, I think it would be incredibly interesting.
Yep, that's been both a great thing and a bit of a problem over the decades. He's rarely in any real trouble, and I doubt anybody really watches because they think he's in trouble. Especially with the older Bond movies where he'd be given a bunch of gadgets that you know he'd be using at some point in the future. That did change when they blew up his car without him doing much of anything with it. And after this film, we can no longer assume that Bond won't die when they decide to change actors. That will likely be the biggest legacy for the film, not these nitpicky little issues.
I didn't see the movie because I boycotted the idea of them killing Bond, however I agree with you. This guy doesn't get Bond. He is an idealistic character. Everything he does IS easy. That's why people love the escapist and idealistic world of 007. It's intentionally made to be unreal. As a matter of fact, the reason for my boycott is tied in with that. You don't kill Bond. He's not supposed to die. In the words of "M", "your licensed to kill, not get killed". We want to see him ride off into the sunset like he always does so 4-5 years from now we get to see him again in another movie which we've been doing since 1962.
Bond has a daughter now Me: ohmygawd they're doing it! They're acknowledging the Rock! Sean Connery & Nick Cage's Alcatraz mission confirmed to be canon! He's got a surprise daughter in there too! NTTD: bond dies Me: ... Sonofabitch, they actually vaporized him!
You pointed out exactly the problems I had with this movie. But I enjoyed watching it. In the end it was just another Bond movie. Nothing special. It's worth it to watch at least once.
James bond died 1. As a hero (he saved the world from a truly deadly weapon) 2. Undfeated( no one ever bested him in combat) 3. On his own terms ( he choose this to be his final moments, once he heard there would be no cure/salvation from his poisoning he decided that this would be it) 4. For his own Family (Blofeld and we the audience always knew that bond was a sensitive guy, starting with Vesper upto Madeline ) Bond wanted to love and be loved betrayal always set him back but now he sacrifices himself for what he always wanted James Bond died a HERO yes there are loopholes in the film but I think this was a perfect send-off for Daniel Craig as James Bond, film perfection in my eyes
I love how much effort you put into the Manscaped promo--the dancing Peter Parkers from Spiderman 3 wearing Santa hats was great. Oh! Also the video was FANTASTIC. Definitely don't want to downplay that. Thanks for expanding our lives and creativity.
Was really looking forward to this review and it was worth the wait! I sooo agree, especially with the villain's motives being insufficient and not powerful enough to end the series with
This isn't my favorite Bond movie and I agree with most things, but I think the uncertainty of curing the virus is part of the story. Even if you ignore how injured he already was or that the virus will spread to anyone he touches, I feel like he was just done. He's been fighting for so long that he just felt like his time was now.
I thing some people are ignoring James choose death over not being able to be with his family again, completing the arc that began with Casino Royale, where he was a cold assassin who only cared about getting his 00 title, and would never show any kind of emotions ("the bitch is dead"), to literally giving his life to save his family (and the world).
What James Bond filmed isn’t flawed, I did enjoy no time to die. It also has its great points like Daniel Craig’s performance, Lea Seydou having a lot more of a presence about her, the sound design and direction was great
@@jr5993 Ah yes, the James Bond series, famed for its realism. Remember when either Goldfinger or Oddjob apparently painted a woman gold while Bond was knocked out? Or Oddjob's crazy hat? Remember when Blofeld made a clone of himself? Remember all of Moonraker? I'm not sure why people weren't expecting a James Bond movie from the James Bond franchise. Unless you were expecting another grimdark film to cap off Craig's run, in which case you'd probably just complain about how it was bad because it wasn't Skyfall.
@@SylentVoidkeeper I actually really enjoyed it. It just wasn't a favorite of mine. All the twists were really fun and there was a lot going on. But yes I was expecting something like Skyfall and I don't like continuous action.
@@SylentVoidkeeper Explaining away an Issue someone has with a Film by giving examples of other Issues does not solve the fact they're still Issues. I'm amazed People still try to use this absolutely paper-thin Logic.
The video just shrugs off the Vesper storyline as justification for why Bond is so quick to believe Madeline betrayed him, but that's unfair. That IS the reason Bond believes he's been betrayed so easily, and it's a completely valid reason that's earned from that previous film, it shows that Bond is still fundamentally broken from that incident, still has a hard time trusting people fully. One of the best part of this movie is how it continues that wound from Casino Royale and brings it to a satisfying resolution.
The irony is this video was frontloaded with a trailer for NTTD on VOD , I’m very happy and proud to say I fckin adore NTTD, seen it six times in the cinema, I can’t recall another movie that resonated with me so emotionally , it’s divided fandom for sure , some love it , some hate it , some hated it on first viewing then loved it on subsequent viewing, I know it’s a comfort food movie I’ll be rewatching in years to come, , audiences keep coming back for more , global box office now @ $733 million and counting + whatever the VOD numbers are on top of that , now officially the highest grossing Hollywood film since 2019
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I re-watched NTTD as it was put on Prime Video. I thought it was mediocre when i first watched it, and I still think it is but watching it a second time I can really pin point what is wrong with it in my opinion. The cinematography, the music, the filming locations, the action sequences, Ana de Armas are amazing, like the music and cinematography i'd say are possibly the best in the franchise. But the film suffers from its boring, confusing plot, I mean is Spectre the enemy? Oh they aren't? Oh but they are and try to kill bond? Oh but they fail and all die themselves? So spectre aren't the enemy? Oh but Blofeld is responsible? Oh but he isn't Oh its all Safin, wait who is Safin? Wait who is Bond fighting at the end? Safin is easily the worst villain in the franchise because he's got nothing going for him. You forget he's in the film because the first act of the film centers around Blofeld and Spectre, the 2nd act of the film focuses on Logan Ash and by the time the 3rd act starts and Safin is properly introduced you forget who he is completely, and you still have no idea who he is when Bond executes him. Its a film that isn't necessary in my opinion. Spectre should have been the end of the Craig saga, and they should have rebooted with a new actor for Bond 25
For me, Spectre ends the Daniel Craig era (and it's a good way to properly end Craig's tenure as Bond in my opinion), NTTD is overtly convoluted, confusingly frustrating, inconsolable messy & downright unnecessary. I personally ignore it...
