A big nitpicking problem for No Time To Die and a big flaw for me is how no one at MI6 knows about Madeleine’s kid and yet Blofeld does–“Once her secret finds its way out, it will be the death of you.”
MI6 security checks should have easily found out about her pregnancy.
I might be able to help you out here. M tells Bond earlier that “we took your information seriously. That was five years ago.” So MI6 may have used the same words when interrogating Blofeld initially. Furthermore, upon hearing that, Blofeld decides she’ll be the only one to talk to him. He knows that’s the only way he can get back at Bond. That’s his long game against Bond, given his, albeit reconned, vendetta against his foster brother.
The bionic eye. It doesn’t really bother me, but took a while to figure out.
First off, Blofeld is briefly seen with an eye in the “live feed” that wasn’t there at the end of Spectre. Bond pieces together that the bionic eye is a connection to Blofeld and Primo at the ‘Spectre bunga bunga.’" Primo swaps bionic eyes to Blofeld’s in the mayhem. In M’s office, Bond tells him Blofeld ran a Spectre meeting from Belmarsh. When M asks how, Bond answers, “No.” He’s not telling M.
Then M orders Nomi to go to Belmarsh and scan Blofeld, “the whole damn man.” She says she’ll bring her gloves.
Later outside in London, M tells Bond they’ve retrieved the bionic eye (I almost typed ‘golden’!), and Bond says, “You’re welcome.”
Finally, it comes full circle with Bond choking Primo in the stairwell, just like in the PTS, but this time he kills him with the EMP watch.
And while I enjoy the scene, and love the shot of the Land-Rovers and motorcycles literally jumping onto the screen in the countryside, how do Safin’s henchmen know to be there in the first place? At the last second, Bond turns off the main road and takes the country road heading toward their location. Logically, and realistically, they would have been waiting for him up the main road and nowhere in the country.
it’s almost like Safin had been there at the start of the film…
Safin has a bird’s eye view from his helicopter, and presumably phone and radio contact with his men on the ground. That explanation works for me.
My only nitpick, and it’s more of a suggested improvement, would be to score the Cuba chase with the ‘007’ theme. Someone else mentioned it in a thread, and I can’t get it out of my mind. It’s the one Bond element they haven’t paid tribute to, and would have been perfect given that Nomi is now “007” and Bond is working for the CIA.
I like Hans Zimmer’s piece for it though it does seem like David Arnold’s Cuba motif from DAD.
It was me, and I still consider it to be the great missed opportunity of the movie.
They ticked every box, and even reused music from OHMSS. ATTITW made sense, but I don’t really get why they had the OHMSS theme to underscore the meeting between Bond and M.
It’s been an old fan desire to finally have the “007” theme being used again. When, if not in NTTD? Where, if not in the Cuba scenes, Bond’s last glorious hurrah. Even though it’s great, no one ever asked for the OHMSS theme to return. Can only imagine that there have been “reasons” for that, whatever they may be.
I think it was to compare M and Blofeld in OHMSS. Both are responsible for bio terrorism.
I mean, the OHMSS theme is my favorite piece of music from the Bond franchise and I loved it appearing in NTTD. Though, I agree and definitely would like to have heard the 007 theme. It hasn’t been heard since Moonraker and that is a damn shame. Am I also the only one who would’ve loved to hear Bond 77 in NTTD?
In my opinion the perfect use would’ve been ebbing under the surface during the plane sequence, when Nomi hands the number back to Bond, with the music peaking as the glider approaches the island.
I haven’t seen this posted anywhere, but what did we make of Bond saying Felix was from Milwaukee? Felix mentions a shrimp boat, but we know he’s from Texas. Curious they didn’t mention that. Was it a joke like Mathis’ cover name? Why Milwaukee?
It’s not something I read too much into, personally. I don’t hold them to keeping to every detail from the novels. If the movies want to place Felix in Milwaukee and not Texas, so be it.
Although I think the point of the scene was that they really don’t know each other’s histories, just themselves as the men they are.
Milwaukee was just chosen for the humor, because it’s about as far from shrimp boating as you can physically get.
“I thought I’d made that up?”
Bond and Leiter have been in the game so long they’ve forgotten their actual history.
The only true relationship they have now is each other.
Bonds daughter spoke to him in French,he obviously understood and replied in English! Just like an episodes of TOTS T.V, ,where the French puppet would only speak French, to the English puppets,who would reply in English and vice versa!
The ending bothered me, the “widow” and daughter driving along In the TLD Aston Martin! I was nearly expecting to hear "I wonder what this button does?’
Believe me when I say that I was overjoyed to see that Aston Martin return. It’s always been my favorite Aston Martin, and not just because it appeared in a Dalton film. I’ve just always loved the look of the car and if I ever had the chance to acquire an Aston Martin, it would be that one, rather than one of those really fancy new ones like Brosnan and Craig have gotten to drive in their films. And it was just awesome on some level to see the two Bonds that are generally crapped on by the general public being recognized in the final moments of the most financially successful stretch the franchise has ever seen.
With all of that said, I have to agree, that it doesn’t make one lick of sense that they’re driving that car in the final moments of the film. It would have made far more sense for her to be driving the DB5 that he won in Casino Royale and that she rides away with him at the end of Spectre in.
The scene where Bond lifted the dust sheets off and you saw the TLD Aston Martin was my WOW MOMENT In the cinema
Why doesn’t it make sense? That was the car he had driven to her house in Norway.
We don’t even know he still has the DB5 since we last saw it 5 years prior in Italy…
Um, no. That car was practically destroyed in Matera. Bond is retired so MI6 would have no incentive to repair it. In fact, they probably repossessed it after the incident. Even if that’s not the CR car that was remodeled, where was it? Did Bond have it stored in another garage? How would Madeleine have known where to get it?
Madeleine’s Toyota was left in the woods (not sure why Bond walked on the road rather than go back to it, maybe Safin’s goons found it and destroyed it?) So the only car Madeleine had left was Bond’s Aston Martin Volante. It makes perfect sense.
And that’s a callback to Skyfall’s DB5 reveal.