In the past, some girl and her mother are attacked somewhere by a masked guy who says the the man of the house killed his family. The mom ends up dead. The girl turns out to be a great shot and shoots the guy then drags him single-handedly out of the house through snow. Then the guy resuscitates. The girl falls into a frozen lake but the guy decides to rescue her for some reason.
Bond is in now Italy with Madeleine living the good life. They're all over each other like teenagers. He decides to visit Vesper's grave (not this crap again). There he's attacked by a bunch of guys one of whom reveals that Madeleine has a secret. Bond rushes back to get Madeleine and leave but of course they are intercepted by the bad guys but manage to escape. He puts her on a train ending their relationship.
Some scientist receives a call and is told that he will be grabbed and to give the guys whatever they want. Sure enough some mercenaries arrive kill everyone and grab the guy. He's then forced to give them some bioweapon but instead gives them something else, keeping the real stuff from himself.
The most logical thing for Bond to do next...take a vacation in Jamaica. There he runs into the CIA's Leiter and Ash from the "State Department." They tell him about the scientist and want Bond to pick him up. After he meets his replacement, the new bizarrely casted 007, he agrees to travel to Cuba to get the scientist. The new 007 has the same mission.
In Cuba the CIA puts in him contact with inexplicable-Hollywood-darling-of-the-day Ana de Armas--the only bond-girl in this flick. They attend a Spectre party (because putting all the world's bad guys in a single place really makes sense). During the party they get an audio pep talk from imprisoned Blofeld (not this guy again) for his birthday. He announces that Bond will die but instead all the Specte guys start dying horribly, to the delight of the scientist. Bond grabs him but then the repulsive 007 nabs him away from Bond. There's a shootout with some bad guys. Bond re-grabs the scientist and hands him over to Leiter and Ash. Ash kills Leiter and escapes with the scientist. Turns out Ash is working for the bad guy from the intro, one Lyutsifer (why not directly Lucifer?) Safin.
Now Bond is taken back into the fold. MI6 had the scientist create the genetic weapon based on nanobots that targets only specific individuals based on their DNA (!). Now the idea is for Bond and Madeleine to interview Blofeld. But before that, Safin got to Madeleine and gave her some nanobots that will kill Blofeld only. While she changes her mind and leaves, Bond inadvertently transferred the nanobots to him and inadvertently transfers them to Blofeld killing him, hopefully and finally already.
Bond and Madeleine make up at her place where he learns she has a daughter. He also learns about her childhood encounter with Safin. Eventually they are attacked by Safin's guy's. They capture Madeleine and the girl.
MI6 figures out that Blofeld wanted to kill some huge list of people. And now for no good reason Safin wants to kill a huge chunk of the world's population. His lair is some missile silo facility on an island somewhere, called toxic island. So now Bond has to go there to rescue the girls and eliminate Safin. But things don't work out quite as planned.
No Time do Die is for sure a departure from recent Bonds, in many ways a welcome departure. Gone is the ostentatious and pompous Craig-Bond who spent entire movies striking ridiculous Vogue poses trying to sell some luxury branded crap instead of acting. Gone are also the awful voice effects that made Bond sound like a cartoon superhero. So we have a more human Bond who acts and sounds like a regular person. But there also plenty of shortcomings. The story doesn't convince since it is again all about Bond, instead than the mission(s) and as such pretty directionless. There is no villain really. Ash is underused and quickly disposed. Blofeld gets little screen time--thankfully. And Safin was never established as a villain. He doesn't do anything except kill Madeleine's mom in revenge in the intro and all the Spectre people--presumably a good thing, and then only shows up in person for the final act. There is no over the top intro action scene, for better or worse. The few action sequences are well done. Once again the title song is awful and so are the title credits. Regardless of political correctness, nothing beats the naked girls intro credit scenes. While Bond movies used to have something to say about the times, this one has nothing to say. The only interesting thing is the bio-genetic weapon developed to target specific populations, which is very relevant today. But not enough attention is payed to it in the movie.
The best thing about this movie really is that finally the embarrassing Bond love affair soap opera series of movies is laid to rest. Now the 007 movies can get back to business hopefully in the competent hands of the Nolans. But I'm not holding my breath. Given the political climate these days, I suspect casting and direction of future 007 movies will be an utter disaster, unless they wait a decade or so for the circus to be over.
Bond is in now Italy with Madeleine living the good life. They're all over each other like teenagers. He decides to visit Vesper's grave (not this crap again). There he's attacked by a bunch of guys one of whom reveals that Madeleine has a secret. Bond rushes back to get Madeleine and leave but of course they are intercepted by the bad guys but manage to escape. He puts her on a train ending their relationship.
Some scientist receives a call and is told that he will be grabbed and to give the guys whatever they want. Sure enough some mercenaries arrive kill everyone and grab the guy. He's then forced to give them some bioweapon but instead gives them something else, keeping the real stuff from himself.
The most logical thing for Bond to do next...take a vacation in Jamaica. There he runs into the CIA's Leiter and Ash from the "State Department." They tell him about the scientist and want Bond to pick him up. After he meets his replacement, the new bizarrely casted 007, he agrees to travel to Cuba to get the scientist. The new 007 has the same mission.
In Cuba the CIA puts in him contact with inexplicable-Hollywood-darling-of-the-day Ana de Armas--the only bond-girl in this flick. They attend a Spectre party (because putting all the world's bad guys in a single place really makes sense). During the party they get an audio pep talk from imprisoned Blofeld (not this guy again) for his birthday. He announces that Bond will die but instead all the Specte guys start dying horribly, to the delight of the scientist. Bond grabs him but then the repulsive 007 nabs him away from Bond. There's a shootout with some bad guys. Bond re-grabs the scientist and hands him over to Leiter and Ash. Ash kills Leiter and escapes with the scientist. Turns out Ash is working for the bad guy from the intro, one Lyutsifer (why not directly Lucifer?) Safin.
Now Bond is taken back into the fold. MI6 had the scientist create the genetic weapon based on nanobots that targets only specific individuals based on their DNA (!). Now the idea is for Bond and Madeleine to interview Blofeld. But before that, Safin got to Madeleine and gave her some nanobots that will kill Blofeld only. While she changes her mind and leaves, Bond inadvertently transferred the nanobots to him and inadvertently transfers them to Blofeld killing him, hopefully and finally already.
Bond and Madeleine make up at her place where he learns she has a daughter. He also learns about her childhood encounter with Safin. Eventually they are attacked by Safin's guy's. They capture Madeleine and the girl.
MI6 figures out that Blofeld wanted to kill some huge list of people. And now for no good reason Safin wants to kill a huge chunk of the world's population. His lair is some missile silo facility on an island somewhere, called toxic island. So now Bond has to go there to rescue the girls and eliminate Safin. But things don't work out quite as planned.
No Time do Die is for sure a departure from recent Bonds, in many ways a welcome departure. Gone is the ostentatious and pompous Craig-Bond who spent entire movies striking ridiculous Vogue poses trying to sell some luxury branded crap instead of acting. Gone are also the awful voice effects that made Bond sound like a cartoon superhero. So we have a more human Bond who acts and sounds like a regular person. But there also plenty of shortcomings. The story doesn't convince since it is again all about Bond, instead than the mission(s) and as such pretty directionless. There is no villain really. Ash is underused and quickly disposed. Blofeld gets little screen time--thankfully. And Safin was never established as a villain. He doesn't do anything except kill Madeleine's mom in revenge in the intro and all the Spectre people--presumably a good thing, and then only shows up in person for the final act. There is no over the top intro action scene, for better or worse. The few action sequences are well done. Once again the title song is awful and so are the title credits. Regardless of political correctness, nothing beats the naked girls intro credit scenes. While Bond movies used to have something to say about the times, this one has nothing to say. The only interesting thing is the bio-genetic weapon developed to target specific populations, which is very relevant today. But not enough attention is payed to it in the movie.
The best thing about this movie really is that finally the embarrassing Bond love affair soap opera series of movies is laid to rest. Now the 007 movies can get back to business hopefully in the competent hands of the Nolans. But I'm not holding my breath. Given the political climate these days, I suspect casting and direction of future 007 movies will be an utter disaster, unless they wait a decade or so for the circus to be over.