![]() ![]() This image released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures shows Daniel Craig in a scene from “No Time To Die.” (Nicola Dove/Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures via AP) Craig begins the proceedings by mourning Vesper Lynd, Bond’s great love from the 2006 ‘Casino Royale’ – 007 debut. A retired, slightly paunchy James Bond? No thanks. Third, Craig really should have stopped – as he threatened to – after the last ‘Spectre,’ which wasn’t much but it worked. It’s a diversion of mumbo-jumbo that we know is bad news. This plot point is introduced early and never makes much sense, or earns much interest. Second, there is some Bondian plot to rule the world, or maybe destroy it, with bio-warfare. They don’t have much to do and what they do do has no electrical charge. Daniel Craig stars as James Bond and Christoph Waltz as Blofeld in NO TIME TO DIE, an EON Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios film Credit: Nicola Dove © 2021 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. It’s no fault of Christoph Waltz as a returned Blofeld from Bond’s past and Rami Malik as a guy with a big grudge. ![]() There are 2 unexciting, unthreatening, nearly risible bad guys here. What happened? First, if you take the trope that the better the villain the better the Bond, then ‘No Time’ fails miserably. As Daniel Craig’s farewell to James Bond 007 after 5 films, who could not be excited by the prospect of ‘No Time to Die’? Watching this nearly 3-hour finale, exhilaration that it was finally here soon gave way to bitter disappointment. ![]()
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