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Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. Movie review by S. Jhoanna Robledo , Common Sense Media. Parents recommend. Compelling docu about a young star's rise to the top. G minutes. Rate movie. Watch or buy. Based on 25 reviews. Based on reviews. Get it now Searching for streaming and purchasing options Common Sense is a nonprofit organization.
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This is now a curiosity in the Bond film series and not a part of the canon series , an anomaly, an oddity, a film stemming from the real-life battles between Eon Productions and their nemesis, producer McClory, who won rights to remake the earlier film.
It probably would have been better if he'd succeeded earlier - say, around or so; as it is, Connery, who managed to equal Roger Moore's number of Bond portrayals with this film, is a full dozen years older since his previous Bonder "Diamonds Are Forever," and it shows. This isn't really a parody, like "Casino Royale" from , though there are some too-cute moments, right up to the conclusion, a freeze-frame of Bond winking at us.
This is a bit strange to take in, just on its own. Q is played by one of the best British actors, McCowen, so his scenes have a nice flair, though he has a silly name, Algernon. There's no teaser sequence or fancy credits such as we're used to - in fact, the beginning is so mundane, it's as if we're watching a typically substandard seventies thriller, with a wretched song and an awful score.
Many of the early scenes are perfunctory; in other words, they're presented as the stuff we're used to seeing in a Bond film Bond shoots bad guys, Bond is eyed by the ladies, Bond is menaced by sharks , but without the style and panache of the regular film series. As in "Thunderball," Bond is sent to a health spa early in the film. I admit I did laugh when I saw this in the theater way back when - but I don't nowadays.
I also get the impression of a conspiracy by the producer to throw in some banal stuff amid the standard spy action, not helped any by what seems like in-joking involving Bond's aging hero bit, including M's comically shrill disapproval. It mirrors the problem with Moore in his last couple of Bonders, where the audience is laughing at the hero - undesirable conditions for a Bonder.
Things seem to improve again in the middle half, as much of the action here is dominated by the female villain, Blush actress Carrera in her best role.
She exults in her performance as the persistent killer with some odd sexual preoccupations, anticipating the much later lethal ladies such as Onatopp in "GoldenEye. Von Sydow, always good, has a much briefer role as famous uber-villain Blofeld, staying behind the scenes for most of the movie. Basinger as Domino the Bond girl is, unfortunately, similar to many of the Bond girls of that period: nice to look at, but usually helpless and kind of an airhead, though she demonstrates fear convincingly.
Connery, looking his age early fifties , goes through the motions here, but hey, it's still Connery as Bond; he can do this kind of thing in his sleep which he nearly does and is always watchable, with that easy charisma.
The pace is actually pretty good for awhile up until the climactic shoot-out, in spite of some cheap production values. The finale, underwater with Largo, is murky stuff, with no tension, as if the filmmakers just gave up by this point and wanted to get it over with. We kind of forget what the threat is about half-an-hour before the end. Oh, and, Atkinson is his small role is abominable, like nails on chalkboard. Connery would not return. Bogmeister Aug 11, See which films have received the highest ratings from IMDb users.
FAQ What is 'Never Say Never Again' about? Is "Never Say Never Again" based on a book? Top review. What we have here is an exercise in self-indulgent nonsense. A long and painfully cringe-worthy experience which could easily have been slashed to 30 minutes and tossed aside to the biography channel.
After all, think of the amazing musicians who have never warranted a 3D biopic lasting almost 2 hours The use of 3D in this film seems to be more geared to keeping the attention of toddlers in the audience, as clearly there is nothing to be gained by showing any part of this story as if it was supposed to be a visual feast, which people talking and the occasional dance number certainly is not. The point of this film is undoubtedly to give young Mr. Bieber or those who conduct his financial affairs another way to print money, and keep the saccharin music movement in top gear.
It is in fact an insult to the movie-going public to put this feature into cinemas, as it adds nothing to a film which is essentially empty of any point anyway, but allows us to be charged an extortionate fee to see it. Luckily, I did not pay to see this one The little girls seemed happy, the mothers looked bored and the fathers looked as if they had a noose they would be hanging from the bathroom ceiling about 20 minutes in. Final Thought: A diseased cash-cow which should be residing on nickelodeon, if not in the cutting room bin Rating: 0.
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