Damn. This was so underwhelming that I'm now wondering if I totally overrated director Cary Joji Fukunaga's True Detective S01 and his Beasts of No Nation when they came out. They were great, right? Or what? The plot and dialogue of No Time To Die are pedestrian. Bond is now some sort of neutered stateless humourless hybrid character. Bond villain #25 (Rami Malek) is the least compelling in 60 years. This movie felt 45 min longer than it actually was. Give Bond back to the British! Please!
Wonderful dialogue and compelling, moving performances from Jack Lemmon and Jack Gilford.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Like no writer/director before him, Tarantino knows and revels in exploitation cinema. This is his Ten Little Indians, except the body count is 17 and there’s no mystery made of who’s killing off all the characters.
Two hours in, though, there is quite the surprise waiting for you, followed by a 21-minute flashback sequence--narrated by QT himself--explaining how the surprise was possible.
The farce is strong with this one. If you don’t mind that, or prodigious amounts of expositional dialogue,…
