what's going on tom my double07 fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott
back again with a brand new early movie review and this is a big one this is a film we've been
waiting a very long time for and that is the new james bond double-oh-seven no time to die
which i got a chance to check out early and i'm so excited to let you all know what i
thought about this movie and let you know if it's worth checking out in this spoiler-free review
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hell for almost three years let me know if you were excited for it but more importantly once
you've seen this movie we got to talk about in the comments let me know your thoughts on daniel
craig's performance the newcomers the villains the score the cinematography the direction what were
some of the things that didn't work for you all but more importantly i want to know since this is
daniel craig's last time in the role and if you've seen all his roles as james bond let me see your
rankings let me know your favorite daniel craig jebelo seven film to your least favorite let's
share that list in the comments i'm gonna give you guys mine in this video but let me know yours
in the comments below so let me let me talk about this movie for a little bit because this has been
a production hell uh number one i remember back in 2018 daniel boyle was supposed to direct the film
but he left due to creative differences and i know this film has lost so much money with i believe
two like four marketing pushes this the main song by billy eilis came out almost two years ago but
man you look at the calendar shifting of november of 2019 to early 2020 to late
2020 i mean this film has been through hell but here we are talking about it starting off with
just letting you all know i would consider myself a casual james bond film i have seen
sean connery i've seen uh dalton's films i've seen all of chris bronson's film and i've seen them all
daniel craig's run i own all of them uh so i just want to put that out there i'm not an
expert by any means but i enjoy this character for what it is especially daniel craig he's my
personal favorite james bond so let's talk about the positives here and also let me
know who is your favorite james bond let me know in the comments but let's get into this review
starting off with the man behind the camera carrie fukunaga who i'm a big fan of i think he's a very
talented individual whether it be what he did with true detective season one and obviously his
involvement behind the scenes with the other two seasons beast of no nation
maniac his involvement with it i think all of those very different diverse projects have led
him to this very point because i think carrie absolutely body the direction of this film i
thought not only did he manage not only be able to manage the paying homage to the to the james
bond lore and everything that's came before it but more importantly pay homage and pay homage
to daniel craig's run in the films and just seeing his progression and all the different things that
he's went through since 2006 to this very point and also just pushing the narrative forward given
his own sensibilities giving his own passions and creative choices to this character that seems
like he's loved because this seems like a very passionate direction from carrie and i was just so
impressed by again his creative choices the stuff that he made that just put me on the edge of my
seat and again just my personal opinion giving it was so much on his plate to give daniel craig who
again has been in this role since 2006. i thought that he gave him such a proper outing in this role
and gave so much heart to this film and so much charm and so much charisma and i personally think
this is the most emotional james bond film i've personally ever seen again i haven't seen them
all but i was pretty emotional with this film and i think that's all due to not only the writing and
the performances but also the direction which i thought was absolutely fantastic but let's
transition into what's in front of the camera the actual performances first and foremost all
the characters that have been involved with daniel craig's run from the q's character to money penny
to m who had a lot to do in this film to felix making a comeback to tanner uh making a comeback
role they were all fantastic but also i want to talk a little bit about my enjoyment of some of
these newcomers starting off with lashonna lynch who got so much hate two years ago when the word
came out that she was going to be the new double o taking on the new double o roll but i think
she was fantastic she not only was able to hold her action she was incredible in the
action sequences she was charming she had much much charisma for days but it was how she was
able to go toe-to-toe with daniel craig from an acting perspective that really made me just so
impressed by her i was a fan of her with when she was in captain marvel and some other projects i've
seen her in but she was definitely a a breath of fresh air i thought she was absolutely fantastic
anna diaris who i'm a big fan of she is a newcomer she doesn't have a big role she doesn't have like
a whole character arc in this film but she is a a cia agent helping bond with a particular mission
and i thought she kicked a lot of ass in the role but i got to talk about the villain here because
i'm a big fan of good villains and i thought romney malek as the villainous film saffin i
thought that romney malek brought his a game in this role ladies and gentlemen i i do have issues
with like the the use of the character and what the character was about in a certain extent which
we'll talk about in my criticism but i thought when you first met this character he was missing
from the first time he saw him so i thought romney malek was great in the role which also brings
me to another character making the return from spectre and that is leah sadou as madeline who was
absolutely incredible she had her continuation from her story from spectre it just added more
to the emotions to that character had a lot to do in this film and i thought that she again brought
everything an emotional range in this role and her arc again from spectra to this was fantastic
it was a great handoff from spectre to this film which i would recommend if you all haven't
seen spectre or haven't seen in a while watch spectre and then go into this film you'll really
appreciate the connective tissues between those two films but i gotta spend some time shine some
light on the man who first was suited up in the suit and tie in 2006 and that's casino royale and
this is daniel craig's last time in the role and i believe personally and i've seen him all as far as
his run as james bond i think this is my favorite performance of his as bond and i say that because
i think all the stuff which i think emotionally wise character-wise we got a lot of like backstory
from him in skyfall and seeing where he came from and all that stuff from that film but i think that
this film adds to that what we got from sky fall from a more of a personal stakes there's a lot
of stakes in this film like i felt the stakes that's why i was like on the edge of my seat
and got so emotional at certain points because i was really invested not only in the character
but in the narrative that they were telling here but i think that this is a character at top form
and there are even moments when the film is very meta just pain homage and just showing the respect
to daniel craig and like we need you bond we need i just i really appreciate how they handled it
and he was just so badass just brings me back to 2006 that brutality just how he's able to handle
his own how he has the license to kill and i thought daniel craig had to not only come from
a badass standpoint but just again going back to the emotions facing his demons from his past but
you know having the personal stakes involved with the demons of his past and how they were
able to manage to hold those two narratives really strong was very important and i think that daniel
craig rather it was every time he was on screen every line of dialogue i thought he brought his a
plus plus game and he you can tell that this meant something to him you can tell that this meant
a lot to him to be able to play this role for as long as he has and it's the last time he's in a
row and i thought that he deserved all the flowers all the praise he was fantastic in this movie and
uh you know i wish i had a drink with me here but cheers to you daniel craig in the role you're my
favorite bond and you definitely delivered in the role so let's transition from direction
performances to the action and the themes here i thought that the action was absolutely
mind-boggling from the opening sequence without spoiling anything i love the first 15 minutes
of this film and how it starts from a particular pov and addressing the sins of the past and just
being like extremely haunting opening sequence to cut into this balls to the wall action motorcycles
cars just emotion all within that first 15 minutes was fantastic and i was just beyond impressed by
every action set piece in this film every action scene in this movie was just incredible it was
unique it was visceral and it had stakes i can't stress that enough like i said the the bond films
i've seen in the past they're fun you know they have the action but sometimes i just feel like
they lack stakes but this film has some really serious personal stakes and my personal favorite
action scene without giving away it involves a moment in the forest and james bond being a
complete badass and i'll just leave it at that but i also want to touch on the themes a little
bit here in regards to time and making the best use of your time in this film i thought it was a
running theme throughout the film and i thought it was perfectly used throughout the movie from
you know metaphorically speaking the use of time but literally the sense of time was very critical
and very important to the narrative of this film which i thought really kind of hit especially
when we get to the third act and the emotions that come out of that third act i thought that
the use of time and the in the the way they used that word time was very uh very important to use
really well but i can't leave without mentioning lasting my positives the goat hans zimmer score
perfect so let me go on to my criticisms i don't have many to pick from uh you know i found myself
really invested in the story again the action was incredible the narrative was really engaging
and this film was two hours and 43 minutes and i was really really locked in but there are some
scenes without diving too deep into the scenes that i felt like they tried to inject some comedy
which james bond has some you know comedy every now and then it doesn't take itself too seriously
but the times that they injected comedy didn't work for me and if two particular scenes come
to mind there's a scene that takes place in cuba that involves anna diamond's character trying to
save as scientists that i felt that the comedy was a little bit kind of unnatural in the moment of
the scene and then later on the film we have naomi who's the new bond played by lashana lynch she has
the same interaction with that same scientist and referring he refers to her race and i felt
like that was kind of shoehorning in and this really didn't fit in the scene at all and i just
felt like it was kind of unnecessary in my opinion which brings me to characters that i didn't think
fit well in this narrative one being as you can see i mentioned the scientists twice now
i won't say how how important he is but he is very critical to what's going on in the film in regards
to the villain and the plot and everything like that and i thought that that that scientist was
kind of used as comic relief and kami is very subjective but i felt like the the comic relief
was not necessary with that particular character and i felt like that character could have been
characteristics could have been a little bit differently and i just wasn't a fan of the
scientists in this film and also there's a cia agent by the name of logan ash another character
that i felt was kind of used as kind of a comic relief and there's something that happens with
that character that i just didn't i didn't think that we needed that logan ash character at all so
those are two characters that didn't work for me but lastly thing that comes to mind is the villain
of this film again the performance by romney mal was absolutely great but i felt like the villain
was a little under-mutalized i feel like in the second half of the film it's almost like
the villain was almost forgotten about and i feel like that happened because there's
another villain in this film and a spoiler for you all that haven't seen spectre uh
blowfelt they leave they bring him into this film and i feel like the film which by the way
blo felt was so much better in this movie than he was in the entire film of specter which by the way
this film no time to die makes spectre a better film i'll just kind of leave it at that without
diving to the spoilers but i thought blofeld was much better in this movie but i felt like
the film didn't know how to balance okay we're going to take saffin out of the film and give
you a little bit more blowfall but i didn't feel like the balance of the two villains
meshed well in my personal opinion so before i give you all my overall thoughts on my score
and let you know if it's worth checking out make sure to like the video share the video leave your
thoughts in the comments and of course subscribe to the channel overall this is easily the most
emotional double o seven film that i've ever seen this film is big in scope and scale and i highly
recommend you all check it out in imax it's very bold in its choices it has incredible non-stop
action and you will be on your edge your seat from the beginning to the end and i personally think
that this is more than a satisfying conclusion to the daniel craig run as the role of double seven
so with all that being said i'm gonna give no time to die a 4.5 out of five this film was so much fun
there's so many emotions of so many great moments and i can't recommend it enough for you all again
if you have the opportunity see it in imax so all that being said let me get down to the last part
which is my rankings of the daniel craig run as double seven let me start off with number
five quantum gosalas i'm gonna go number four is specter number three is no time to die uh number
two is casino royale and my number one james bond film as well as daniel craig film that i've seen
has to be skyfall so that's my rankings let me know your rankings that's my review let me know
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