No Time To Die
The Bond Franchise is roughly in the same position as Doctor Who : they’re both roughly from the same period and have gone through stages when they’re well liked and on a high, and then have suffered from poor notices and ridicule… and specifically with Bond it didn’t continue to be all about “attempting re-entry” and those eyebrow-raised one-liners. For me the most fun Bond was Pierce Brosnan . The Daniel Craig era was sort of a re-boot, going back to the first book and giving us a dark, thuggish Bond. As the years went by there was talk about what would come after him, and now No Time To Die is the end of the Daniel Craig era. And the film, which was pushed back because of Covid and was (like Tenet ) the test of whether people would go back to the cinema. I chose not to, which is why this is pretty late but a disc dropped through my letter-box yesterday and I held my breath and played it. Two hours and forty three minutes later, I had seen what’s possibly up there with Casino ...