THRIVE

Already at the time of writing this review, No Time To Die, the 25th James Bond film has broken all sorts of box office records. We know it was delayed twice by a certain pandemic but it’s easy to forget it was actually postponed from it’s original release of November 2019. So, with a two year delay, it’s safe to say the hype is huge and the expectation immense. So, was it worth the wa

Daniel Craigs fifth outing and his last playing the infamous secret agent opens as he is enjoying retirement with Madeliene Swan (Seydoux ) in Italy, a direct continuation from the previous movie Spectre. But Bond can never truly relax and it’s not long before his world literally explodes around him and he is dragged back into the espionage world he thought long gone when old friend and CIA agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) approaches him for a favour Bond quickly falls down the rabbit hole of deceit and lies and ultimately faces a very different world, one under threat from the villain of the piece, Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek), a man intent on creating a bioweapon to wipe out half the population of the

Craig famously said after Spectre that he would “rather slash my wrists than play James Bond again”, so one has to wonder why he came back for more of the same. Perhaps the answer is obvious but there also seems to a very definite influence from the actor as to the direction this film would take to ensure it would definitely be his last as 007.No Time To Die is a very, very different 007 movie.