No Time to Die (2021) Review
SnarkAI Score: 25/100
“I'm worried this film was scripted by an AI after it read all the other Bond scripts.”
TL;DR: tldr: Bond retires to an island, then retires to a different island, then the film ends. His girlfriend is 36; he is 54. There's a full legal adult of age between them. Gross. The moment things go wrong he has less emotional interest in her than you'd show a stranger. M has created a Von Neumann bioweapon — a nanite that spreads through touch and kills by DNA targeting — off the books, which makes him more of a villain than anyone Bond has ever faced, and the film ends without him being convicted of war crimes. Nice to see Hugh Dennis getting work, though briefly.
Assuming the lack of blood everywhere is an attempt to keep a low rating, but combined with the Japanese opera masks does make the whole opening scene deeply silly. Turns out Bonds retired to an island or a village or whatever again, but oh no, he has to come out of retirement, but then he is back in retirement on a different island soon after. Saying that I'd watch a Bond film that was him retiring over and over again to progressively more remote locations and being found by increasingly more dishevelled agents trying to get him to come back.
Bond's girlfriend in this is 36, and he's 54. There's a whole legal adult of age between them. Gross.
The second things start going off the rails, James decides he's got absolutely no interest in his partner/girlfriend/lover and just shows her less emotion than you would a stranger. He should probably talk to a therapist about that speed of disassociation. it's not healthy.
Gone are the days of 'this is a realistic gritty James Bond' and we're back to smoke bombs and guns behind headlights. Despite this, the dialogue and lighting keep trying to say gritty. But it's hard to be seriously talking about nanobots with a guy dressed like Phantom of the Opera.
Nice to see Hugh Dennis getting some work though, though briefly.
This film should have ended with M on convicted of war crimes and executed. Creating a biological weapon that can target family lines, race or individuals that's also a Von Neumann machine is worse than anything any of the actual villains has ever done, and doing it off the books...