‘No Time To Die’ Settles Debate: Daniel Craig Is The Best James Bond
Originally set to be released in November 2019, No Time to Die, the 25th installment in the legendary 007 series and actor Daniel Craig’s swan song as the British secret agent, was delayed three times due to production issues and the coronavirus pandemic — and it was worth the wait.
First, let’s dispel some of the concerns that conservative film fans have expressed in response to rumors about the film:
Is James Bond now a woman? No, Craig and the series’ producer, Barbara Broccoli, have dismissed this idea. “We don’t have to turn male characters into women,” she said in a 2018 interview.
Is the movie obnoxiously woke? No, Bond is still a philandering (while single), square-jawed, old-school badass — and the full range of human emotions and virtues that Craig brought out in the character more than compensate for whatever “wokeness” the film contains.
The Gist of the MovieNo Time to Die picks up where 2015’s Spectre left off. Bond is in southern Italy enjoying his retirement from U.K. spy agency MI-6 with his girlfriend, Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux). In what is one of the most spectacular opening sequences in the franchise’s history, a team of assassins ambush Bond while visiting the tomb of Vesper Lynd, the woman he fell in love with in Craig’s 2006 Bond debut, Casino Royale. After narrowly escaping death, Bond bids farewell to Swann, whom he suspects has betrayed him, and the two go their separate ways.
Five years pass before Bond’s retreat from spycraft comes to a halt. A group of killers, believed to be connected to the global terrorist network Spectre, has stolen a top-secret British biological weapon and kidnapped its top scientist. Bond initially declines to get involved when he learns of the development from his CIA pal Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), but reconsiders when he is confronted that same evening by MI-6 agent Nomi (Lashana Lynch).
Bond springs out of retirement in Jamaica to track down the mysterious bioweapon and retrieve the missing Russian scientist in Cuba, where he rendezvous with CIA agent Paloma (Ana de Armas). Bond and Paloma pinpoint the deadly pathogen and the virologist at a “bad guys ” gala in Santiago de Cuba. However, rather than targeting Bond, the microbe takes out the Spectre agents in attendance under the direction of his longtime nemesis, Ernst Stavro
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