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The story is really engaging. It didn't feel like 2.5 hours! I enjoyed every second of it. I like the bond between Daniel Craig and Lea Seydoux. The ending got me tearful. Who would have thought James Bond would make someone cry?

Honestly, way better than i expected. For me Bond movies are always hit or miss and this one was actually good. It's modern and entertaining action movie and that's what i want out of bond movie.

Best bond film after casino royale. The action sequence are breathtaking the score by Hans Zimmer is awesome but the best part about this film is cinematography by Linus Sandgrenhe he has outdone himself.

I alway liked Daniel Craig but in this film Rami Malek and Léa Seydoux stole the show but as they say great villan makes a great film and no doubt this is great film Go watch it without a doubt.

The fifth and final Daniel Craig Bond outing. How did we get here? Casino and Quantum perhaps should have been one film. Craig's era only really got going properly with Skyfall, three films and 6 years in. Too much time was spent rebooting and reestablishing. By then, it was also presenting him as old and past it. But Skyfall was otherwise magnificent and should probably have been the first film. Spectre followed, tying everything up, and establishing an overarching storyline. While Blofeld was only in that one film, his presence was magnified by a partially successful linking of all four films, bringing the series to a satisfactory and upbeat conclusion. After what felt like a definite end, where could they go from here?

No Time To Die is spawned from a throwaway line Madeline Swan makes in one of Spectre's duller scenes, not something I'd ever cared to explore further. The first 5 minutes is that story - her story - before normal service is resumed, and we're back to Bond and a spectacular Italian opening sequence.

As before, Madeline is sullen. She has a secret, but it's largely irrelevant to anything going on. Their relationship lacks the chemistry he had with Vesper and, more worryingly, becomes so domesticated I was expecting them to pop into Tesco. The presence of a child also feels wrong and awkward in just about every way. Bond was was always escapist, sexy, adult fantasy. What happened?

A decade after Skyfall, the film again plays on Bond's age, which the most significant new character, Noeme, mocks. Unlikeable, abrasive and charmless, Bond takes a back seat to her - literally at one point - losing his identity. He's old, retired, forgotten, has no title or sex appeal.

Series regulars, Moneypenny and Felix, are sidelined and discarded. The film's best new character, Paloma, is underused. Her chapter is classic Bond, aside from her disinterest in him - his second rejection in the film, making this easily the most sexless film in the entire franchise.

One regular that would not have been missed was the ubiquitous DB5 - again! Moreover, Aston Martins are everywhere in this story, diluting their impact and specialness.

The central plot is contrived and confusing. The main villain is weak and cliched, doing one thing, then another, with no real believable motivation behind any of his actions. He doesn't have the maturity or gravity required for the role and his age is inconsistent with Madeline's. There is an enjoyable chase in Norway, but why is he there? What's the point? Is he out for revenge or conquering the world? But it gets worse. The all-powerful Spectre is comprehensively dealt with by him. The alarming ease with which this is done - almost as an aside - completely undermines Bond's four-film long journey. Why wasn't Bond dealing with Blofeld and Spectre?

The finale is weak and contrived. The long-take staircase scene has been done before (Children of Men, Atomic Blonde). Enhanced by a Hans Zimmer score, it does build into a moving ending. But it is downbeat and leaves you feeling disappointed and miserable, if not depressed. Not something I've felt with any other Bond film. It would work better as a stand alone thriller.

This film is completely unnecessary. It doesn't tie up any loose ends or take the story forward. That's not to say it isn't entertaining, it has much to recommend it, with some wonderful, big budget set pieces. But the initial disappointment I had after my first viewing has never gone. It is an awkwardly engineered bolt-on, a deconstructive, box-ticking exercise with a directionless story that serves no real purpose except to undermine what's gone before.

The Craig era should have ended with Spectre. It felt like it had. As he famously said after filming, he'd rather "slash his wrists" than do another one. "All I want to do is move on," he continued. If only he had. A Bond film used to be the go to staple for some light-heated fun and excitement. This one has no time for that.

In 2006 the first Bond movie with Daniel Craig - the wonderful reboot 'Casino Royale' - was supposed to show us how Bond became who he is. But they didn't stop there. Three Bond movies followed that exploited the character, showing him as vulnerable, dealing with his past, quitting the service several times and having a hard time figuring women or life out: 'Quantum of Solace' (2008) - a fast-paced hard-to-follow shakycam thrillride, 'Skyfall' (2012) with its ludicrous plot and a villain's scheme that made no sense and the heavily graded 'Spectre' (2015) with its clumsy script.

Now, in 2021, No Time to Die, the longest Bond movie ever, is finally here after being delayed three times and oh man...this was actually great!

No Time to Die is really a real treat. It is beautifully shot (IMAX cameras were used in many scenes) and wonderful to look at. The three big setpieces work fine. But they are much, much too short. The Hans Zimmer score is the best James Bond score, since David Arnold composed 'Casino Royale', meaning bombastic and melodic, with a couple of unexpected nods to earlier Bond movies.

No Time to Die is well acted, and I have to say that Ana de Armas steals the show away from all other than Craig. Sadly her part was very small. Great chemistry between her and Bond. I hope to see her back as the half-drunk agent!

The pacing is also mostly fine, there's a fair amount of thrilling edge-of-your seat moments and the locations are varied and put to good use as they should be (especially the Italy and Norway scenes). It is also the most emotional and bold Bond movie ever attempted.

As a die-hard Bond fan, I have been pretty much disappointed with the last three, and after Terminator and Star Wars going woke I was a bit afraid that the Bond franchise would suffer the same fate. And yes...wokeness is certainly here to some extent, because in these times you can't have a suave unethical gambling self-assure single masculine womanizer roaming the silver screen. So they turned James Bond into a feminist family man who can't figure women or life out. This "alternative" take on the James Bond character may put some people off. It's not a huge issue for me though. The glamourous larger-than-life character WILL return one day. And I do miss THAT guy!

The massive team behind this last Bond movie should be very proud! Much to my surprise, and against many odds, they actually nailed it!