NO TIME TO DIE ...BUT MANY DO... Felix Lighter, Blofeld and James Bond all Get Blown to Bits. Told you BLOCKBUSTER at 7 pm And I'm not kidding

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THEY ALL DO....INCLUDING THE DEATH OF 007.   WHY NOT JUST THROW THE SPOILER RIGHT IN YOUR FACE!

 

With a ridiculous 13 pages of notes that I made at the 3 pm screening (two screens showing No Time to Die for this final Daniel Craig epic,) the nearly 3 hour film tells the Bond tale with variations on the same theme.  The Bond formula that we know and love, yet another chapter. 

   Relative newcomer director Cary Joji Fukunaga gets the call - his biggest moneymaker that I could find is the 2017 horror flick It, does a fine job.  With what he has to work with.  Word is that there was intrigue on the set with the job of director, but with all things Bond, the producers maintain tight control.

    

The opening sequence seems longer than the usual bait and switch routines from previous Bond films, and it drags the way a 1950s science fiction movie would irritate its young audience waiting for giant ants, people or dinosaurs.   Billie Eilish's stylish "No Time to Die" theme works beautifully, but you knew it would. It's been up on YouTube for ages.

    Craig was never my favorite Bond,  and the convincing intrigue of the original On Her Majesty's Secret Service and License to Kill  has been lost to the ages.  We had the science fiction Roger Moore sagas, the Pierce Brosnan cool Remington Steele moments, and then Daniel Craig kind of went Mickey Spillane on us, more blood and violence than we bargained for.

      As an older man Craig actually fits the role now better than his previous outings.  So they blow him up at the end of the film, I kid you not, they blow Daniel Craig to kingdom come and he leaves a young daughter about 5 years of age... will she be the next 007?

This is a mini-review that I wanted to get posted by 7 pm but the fates had other ideas.  My real review will post elsewhere.  Look for it in the usual haunts.