Daniel Craig’s final James Bond film, No Time To Die, has received highly positive reviews from critics across the world.
Stepping out of the James Bond role after his fifth and final Bond, Craig’s performance has been hailed by critics as ‘charismatic’ and ‘engaging’.
The latest movie which is Craig’s follows Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre.
The movie premiered at the Royal Albert Hall this past Tuesday, following several delays prompted by the Covid pandemic that has unfortunately impacted the movie industry in a massive way.
In his five-star review of the film, Kevin Maher of The Times said: “It’s better than good. It’s magnificent.
“Craig is a towering charismatic presence from opening frame to closing shot, and he bows out in terrific, soulful, style.”
Don’t fret!! The reviews round-up below is spoiler free….
In his own five-star review, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw described the film as an “epic barnstormer” which delivers “pathos, action, drama, camp comedy, heartbreak, macabre horror, and outrageously silly old-fashioned action”.
“It is of course a festival of absurdity and complication, a head-spinning world of giant plot mechanisms,” he said, but concluded the film as a whole is “very enjoyable and gleefully spectacular”.
“No Time To Die is a genre-bending Bond,” said Claire Gregory of Sky News. “Fans will be pleased that all the classic lines are delivered, sometimes with such humour that you can’t help but suspect they were improved by Phoebe Waller Bridge’s pass at the script.
“The film is chock full of tech, explosions, guns and car chases,” she continued. “In fact some of the scenes feel slightly gratuitous, with Daniel Craig getting one last opportunity to do pretty much everything you could ever expect from Bond.”
Screen Daily said: “Pulling out all the stops with wild – if not exactly gleeful – abandon, director Cary Joji Fukunaga and his co-writers find various elegant solutions to wrapping up the Daniel Craig cycle of Bond movies as a self-contained, interconnected series. So there’s plenty to gawk at, and to argue over, in this episode – yetNo Time To Dieis oddly lacking in pleasure or real wit.” – Jonathan Romney
BBC said: “”If there are other elements, too, which don’t quite reach the heights they’re aiming for, in general No Time To Die does exactly what it was intended to do, which is to round off the Craig era with tremendous ambition and aplomb. Beyond that, it somehow succeeds in taking something from every single other Bond film, and sticking them all together. To quote a certain song that makes a wistful reappearance: if that’s all we have, we need nothing more.” – Nicholas Barber
Variety said: “”What happens in the climactic scene feels poetic: Bond, in a strange way, takes on the karma of all the people he has killed. I never thought I’d wipe away a tear at the end of a James Bond movie, but No Time to Die fulfills its promise. It finishes off the saga of Craig’s 007 in the most honestly extravagant of style.” – Owen Gleiberman
