No Time To Die is a great send off for Craig's Bond. QoS, I have a soft spot for and I like it more then I do Spectre. Daniel Craig is fantastic as Bond (he was always the best thing even in his weaker efforts). Saw it with a friend, and we were so stoked coming out of the theater.īest Bond film by a good distance for me.
You left that theater with goosebumps and a feeling of so much swag. No posing, no manipulating, certainly no self-worry - just immediate, sincere, selfless concern for Vesper. This is also the Bond film that perfectly defines love: after fighting two assassins down a stairwell, getting slashed by a machete, being poisoned, actually dying, and being defibrillated back to life, the first thing Bond says to Vesper as he regains consciousness is 'Are you okay?' No more improbable gizmos saving the day no more baseless, magical power over women just raw masculine power and the willingness to get down in the dirt. We hadn't yet seen anything in the Bond series like the raw violence of the opening pre-credits scene, which told us in no uncertain terms what we could expect from the new Bond, and how he would go about solving problems. The film that finally got the book character right: a willful, besotted brute with a patriotic, if hobbled, heart.Īnd one of the greatest - if not the greatest - chase scenes ever filmed.
