No Time to Die – Member reviews (Spoilers!)

I would like to say, though, how great was Lynch’s performance. All the other twists are so overwhelming that I forgot to mention it, but she really deserves praises. Her part was extremely delicate (sensitive) and she handled ot perfectly.
I hope she will get the appreciation she deserves from the fans.

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Really enjoyed Lashana Lynch throughout the film, but her role ultimately felt a bit superfluous and awkward - her decision to hand the 007 title back to Bond felt odd and unnecessary - almost like the producers protecting the film from the ire of angry Redditors.

I wouldn’t be adverse to a spinoff film about her, she’s clearly a charismatic screen presence and I’d love to live in the world of Bond but with a new character who doesn’t have the baggage and the sacred cows of the man himself, but given how often they’ve tried to launch a female spinoff series (and how toxic the reaction seems to be every time these franchises try to do that), I’d say her role may end up being limited to this film.

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Unfortunately, I am afraid Lynch is stuck in limbo:

  • having a spin off starring her character would be in poor taste after the Craig era ended the way it did, and then it would overlap with the next era of Bond, which will probably be a reboot of sorts;

  • seeing her character reappear in the universe of the next (rebooted) Bond would be totally confusing.

As much as I regret it, I can’t see how she / her character could fit in the franchise again.

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I hated FYEO and OHMSS when I first saw them, but now they’re among my favorites.

Look at it this way, for the first time ever EON knew they were making a final James Bond movie, just as Casino Royale was his first as if the others did not exist. DAF and NSNA (though not EON) knew they were the actors last as well, but this was a definite swan song.

As to the other complaints about the ending, eventually that virus would find its way to its target. We’re all separated by just 6 degrees after all. This was made evident in the Madeleine to Bond to Blofeld transfer. Death finds a way.

Even if the nanobots could be neutralized with an EMP watch, there’s just no time to get off the island.

This was earned.

Plus, it’s not like we’re not getting another Bond film in 3-4 years. They don’t all exist in the same universe, and the next one won’t either.

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I’d honestly love a spin-off with Lynch and Ana de Armas. I think they’d make a fantastic pair. Lynch was great and, despite only getting about 10 minutes of screen time, Paloma might be my favorite character of the entire Craig run.

I think every time a new Bond film releases (really any movie), it needs time to settle. The reaction of the first viewing doesn’t always reflect its lasting presence. I remember being utterly depressed when I left the theater after seeing Die Another Day. I thought Bond was dying. In the years since, I still don’t rank Die Another Day very high, but I don’t think it’s the worst Bond film. And if I don’t take it too seriously, I can actually have fun watching it.

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No, really? Time to resurrect and old classic… :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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This may seem like blasphemy, but I actually like Die Another Day

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Classic haha

A minor point of curiosity here. On Q’s tracking screens towards the end, the two agents are listed as BOND, J and NOMI, M.

So are we to assume that Nomi is actually her surname?

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I think so, yes. Even though ‘Nomi’ sounds much like a given name.

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Yes. She introduces herself with her surname, like Bond does. I saw that as the point, both OO7’s are far more similar than either will admit to at first.

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Saw it last night and LOVED IT!! Definitely Craig’s best since Casino Royale and hence knocks Skyfall out of the No.2 position in my ranking of the DC films (which I would not have thought possible)… Still way too early to rank it among the the previous 24 films… I’ll definitely need a few more viewings first. Overall, I’d give it 4 out of 5 vodka martinis! I’ll be going again for my 2nd viewing sometime next week. A terrific way to send Mr. Craig off in after a glorious 15 year reign as Bond. :sunglasses: :+1:

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I’m not gonna lie, I choked up at the end. Being a father, has made me have different reactions to films than I would’ve had previously.

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… and another one in Bond‘s life with a name starting with M.

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Mansfield knew her job!

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As strange as it sounds, DAD shares similarities with NTTD.

It starts with Bond almost dying, it puts in sequences no one ever thought they would see in a Bond film (Bond being tortured, Bond with a full beard, the story going on during the title sequence, a female super spy being Bond‘s equal, Bond being out of the service and returning) and it is a mix of wildly outrageous scenes and tough, Flemingian sequences (the swordfight).

Sure, the emotional content is limited to the torture scenes. But like the other films of the Brosnan era DAD is like a tryout of elements which got reworked during the Craig era.

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I feel a bit bad for Lynch because, although I’d really like to have a Nomi spinoff, Paloma is easily the best new (i.e. non-Fleming) character in the film and possibly the entire franchise. So if they make a Nomi-007 film, they must include Paloma too!

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Just got back from my second viewing. I enjoyed it even more this time round. And I came to the realisation that Safin wasn’t a terrible villain. It’s just that the film wasn’t about him, it was all about Daniel Craig’s James Bond.

To quote Safin “I’ve made you irrelevant.” And that’s what Safin was, totally irrelevant to the plot. He was only in the film because of course a Bond film needs a villain. But other than that, his limited screen-time and lack of focus was exactly what the story needed, or didn’t need.

I also can’t praise Craig enough. I picked up on little bits I didn’t notice before, like when he drops Maddy off at the train station, when he holds her close to him and you can just see his face and blue eyes over her shoulder. His eyes tell you everything he is feeling in just 2 seconds.

The staircase sequence at the end is probably one of my favourite action sequences in the entire series. Is it original? No? Is the combat different? No. But is it badass and intense and looks just so damn cool? Yes! The music during his ascent made the hairs on my arm stand on end. And the fact it is all done in one-shot is just the icing on the cake.

No Time To Die has catapulted itself into the top 10, perhaps even top 5 of my favourite Bond films. I think on every level, technically, visually, musically, everything just works.

I wish this wasn’t the end of Craig’s tenure as I would want Fukunaga back for the next one, though I know that’s extremely unlikely now.

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I disagree, I took it at as a film about Madeline. The bad guy has a similar background to her, threat was against her and her family, Safin was created by the actions of her father and Bond was only targeted because he was who she cared for. Spectre was killed by the (to quote Blofeld) “the children of Spectre”

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Seydoux certainly had more to chew on in this film compared to Spectre and I see what you mean. But for me Craig’s performance was so imbued with pathos- Madeleine being the woman he loves and the mother of his child having a lot to do with it- that I was blown away by his screen presence.

Daniel Craig has repeatedly said how proud of this film he is on the press junkets and I see what he means. He really gave it his all and it really shows this time. And that’s what I mean when I say it’s a film all about him old chap.

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