3/10
Never Say Again !
3 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
A slave market in Libya?!! Bond tells the girl that her brother was killed while they're dancing in a party?! Q is envying Bond?! A long boring sequence at the end, just like the original movie?! Rather, a remake of (Thunderball) after 18 years of it, with its same lead?! So what could deserve LOLWUT, or LOL, more?!

Rowan Atkinson did nothing. Max von Sydow, himself, did nothing. Kim Basinger had an iceberg of a presence, with no acting talent. And Sean Connery was 53 years old, however looked older, and - with the heavy make-up - sillier. So who was worse than the other?!

Michel Legrand's melody of (Never Say Never Again). Barbara Carrera's sparkling dark eyes. And the motorcycle chase. They're the only things that worth something in here.

(Thunderball) wasn't a good movie to remake in the first place. (Octopussy), the official Bond movie in the same year, is a huge action marathon compared to this unofficial one. And lately I developed a certain scorn for Bond, as alcoholic, womanizer, assassin. He's a pure fantasy hero, I get it, but he's a pitiful goofy excuse for a character in the same time too!

I know why Connery came back. The money, and maybe to feel young again. But as for me, I won't come back to it ever again!
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