No Time To Die- SPOILER FREE Reviews

BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

Please write reviews below, with no spoilers for those who haven't yet seen the much delayed movie.

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  • Royale-les-EauxRoyale-les-Eaux LondonPosts: 814MI6 Agent

    I wish I could watch it for the first time again.

  • SnorpleySnorpley Posts: 86MI6 Agent

    I'm already sharing the pain of the comedown(!), and I won't get to see it for the first time until November! Following everyone on the forum and via their pages/channels has really helped pass the time through the lockdown. To paraphrase a beer ad, it sounds like it was worth the wait. Enjoy it guys.

    ...a brother from Sydney
  • welshboy78welshboy78 Posts: 10,292MI6 Agent

    Got to wait minimum two more weeks so will stick to this thread!

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  • Royale-les-EauxRoyale-les-Eaux LondonPosts: 814MI6 Agent

    It's almost impossible to review this without spoilers btw, there are so many *wow* moments - so chapeau to anyone who manages. Perhaps the best thing to say is that from the trailers, tv spots etc...you really have not seen the heart of the film, you should not worry you've spoiled yourself if you've watched them all.

  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,119MI6 Agent

    Good to hear @Royale-les-Eaux šŸ‘ļø

    "Any of the opposition around..?"
  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent

    Ah that's great to hear, thank you.


    Did you stay to the end of the credits?

  • OrnithologistOrnithologist BerlinPosts: 583MI6 Agent

    Yes, that is great to hear. It was the opposite, at least for me, with Spectre, a movie I ended up not liking too much in the end. Two more days!

    "I'm afraid I'm a complicated woman. "
    "- That is something to be afraid of."
  • Royale-les-EauxRoyale-les-Eaux LondonPosts: 814MI6 Agent
    edited September 2021

    I did indeed...


    I should say I don't think there are any location or outfit surprises...that is something the trailers and bts have well covered. But plot and heart...it's all to come.

  • Royale-les-EauxRoyale-les-Eaux LondonPosts: 814MI6 Agent

    As quantum is to casino no time is to all the Craig films

  • chrisno1chrisno1 LondonPosts: 3,172MI6 Agent
    edited September 2021

    I'm on the bus home. Its 4am in the morning. This is real dedication to the cause.

    No Time To Die is a James Bond film but I felt as if I was watching my cinematic hero have an out of body experience. I'm not entirely sure what to make of this bloodthirsty mini-epic where nobody pauses to explain anything to me [the audience] and looks exceptionally anxious doing it, as if they're in danger of those thousands of bullets.

    Good production values, so-so acting, fun stuff in Cuba followed by a long drag to the denouement. Couldn't understand a single sentence Rami Malik said.

    Did I enjoy it? Well, yes, it's a Bond film. Is it what I expected, probably. Is it what I wanted? No. Call me old fashioned, but having watched Craig's 5 film tenure on successive nights, I think I must have lost faith somewhere between 2006 and 2012 because whatever I thought James Bond was about [girls, gadgets, stunts, fights, a dash of humour] seems no longer to apply.

    A worthy, neatly crossing the T's and dotting the I's, dispiriting climax to Daniel Craig's mythology of OO7.

  • OrnithologistOrnithologist BerlinPosts: 583MI6 Agent

    When you say you couldn't understand Rami Malek, do you mean the content of what he said or the acoustics? I sincerely hope that it's not the latter. I've had this problem with Bane in Dark Knight Returns (another mask-wearer...) and basically all the main characters in Tenet... šŸ™„

    "I'm afraid I'm a complicated woman. "
    "- That is something to be afraid of."
  • IceQIceQ Posts: 298MI6 Agent

    Could understand him perfectly in my screening

  • chrisno1chrisno1 LondonPosts: 3,172MI6 Agent

    Well, the soundtrack itself is excruciatingly noisy and there's a tendency on Fukunaga's part to drown out dialogue with background noise - I hate this modern filmic tick of "authenticity" - also of including vital information at times of high peril - but for me, Malik is a whispery villain. His mouth barely opens. He doesn't enunciate properly. Maybe I was in a bad seat, but I was fairly central and expected to have a better understanding of a major character than I got from this. I was under whelmed by Safin.

  • HowardBHowardB USAPosts: 2,736MI6 Agent

    Calvin Dyson expressed issues with hearing some of the dialogue in general at the premier but that venue is multi-purpose and not a cinema and has a reputation for not being the best place to see a film. He also expressed that the film would divide serious Bond fans so differences of opinions should not be surprising and it does appear that it will really be hard for folks to be able to clearly explain their opinions until spoilers are no longer an issue. Hopefully the sound will be good at my local IMAX.

  • johnraidersjohnraiders Posts: 97MI6 Agent

    No trouble with dialogue at BFI London IMAX.

  • biesnacksbiesnacks Posts: 85MI6 Agent
    edited September 2021

    i haven't seen it yet, i see if next week, im just praying the ending or movie in general doesn't get political, that would really sour things for me. I'd have a hard time getting past that.

  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,416Chief of Staff

    It’s fabulous…not perfect…but it’s a hell of a way to bow out šŸø

    YNWA 97
  • ichaiceichaice LondonPosts: 593MI6 Agent

    I’m giving it 7/10. Some good parts, some bad. Definitely an improvement on Spectre but not in the same class as the magnificent Casino Royale. Really glad they waited to show it in the cinema where it belongs.

    Yes. Considerably!
  • biesnacksbiesnacks Posts: 85MI6 Agent

    great to hear. Where would you rank it in the craig era? Ahead of Spectre and Quantum, behind Skyfall and Casino royal?

  • welshboy78welshboy78 Posts: 10,292MI6 Agent

    Yeah lets see some DC rankings!

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    Please put your rankings here- No Time To Die - Rankings — ajb007

  • Yes,ConsiderablyYes,Considerably Posts: 1MI6 Agent
    edited September 2021

    Watching it on Monday. I really didn't get on with Spectre so if it's the exact opposite of that then I'll be happy

  • ichaiceichaice LondonPosts: 593MI6 Agent

    Too soon to say really. I’ll need to see it again. No doubt at all it’s superior to Spectre though.

    Yes. Considerably!
  • zaphod99zaphod99 Posts: 1,415MI6 Agent

    It's a bold convoluted orgasm of a movie. Some great touches and references treated with skill (no sniffing Roasa Klebb's shoe)

    Very long and occasionally felt like it. Packs several emotional punches. Too many 'shoot em up's for my taste and I would have prefered more fisticuffs/ physical stuff and less gunplay. Craig in fine fettle and the film avoids too many references to his age and decrepitude.

    The Art direction and lighting is superb some truly stunning sets in the classic mold. I'm not rushing to judgement as I have only seen it in the last hour and this one will take a while to digest.

    Of that of which we cannot speak we must pass over in silence- Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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