Review of No Time to Die (2021) by Mrpajamas — 16 Oct 2021

In my opinion, there is one rule that applies to Bond films with Daniel Craig, and that is alternating quality. Casino Royale was great for me, Quantum of Solace was good, Skyfall was great again and Spectre was above average.

So I was wondering if it would work this time and if the cards would turn in favour of No Time to Die, and I mean great film again. Here, that little quality rule of mine has been proven true, and the latest Bond with Craig is great again.

Right from the start the film sucked me in with a nice location and the subsequent action pumping up the pace followed by a classic musical intro, this time from Billie Eilish and yeah, I liked it. Then some more action and I'm not gonna lie, I was slowly getting sick of the action.

The pace really started to pick up and the locations started to rotate and yes, there are a lot of locations and a lot of rotation, which I thought was great in the finale. The film does slow down after a while and after the delicious action that drew me in I was ready to follow some deeper plot.

The story was cool in my opinion and it was definitely helped by the villain here played by Rami Malek and for me it was a great choice as I thought he was great, even though he wasn't in the film much in the finale.

I'm coming to one last thing and that's the overall length. The film is actually almost 3 hours long, which is really quite a lot, but for me it didn't hurt at all in the finale. The last Bond as Craig, so the last final charge, which didn't even bore me with the length because as I mentioned there are changing locations and there is quite a bit of action which I enjoyed watching.

So in the end I enjoyed Daniel Craig's last adventure as Bond to the fullest and for me this is a great film that beautifully and I might add unexpectedly concluded a Bond saga that I can recommend to Bond fans.