Never Say Never Again
(1983),
Director: Irvin Kershner, rated PG
If you haven't seen Sean
Connery in 'Never Say Never Again' then you haven't seen James
Bond 007!
 Starring:
Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Barbara
Carrera, Kim Basinger, Bernie Casey, Alec McCowen, Edward Fox,
Pamela Salem, Rowan Atkinson, Pat Roach
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
- good
"It can never be the same
playing with blanks. It is somewhat different in the field. With
your life on the line... your adrenaline gives you an edge." -
James Bond
Why watch this?
Connery's back... and the heaven's rejoiced, well, for one film
anyway.
Plot Summary:
An aging James Bond is called out of retirement when the SPECTRE
organization, under the leadership of Blofeld, steals two
nuclear warheads and threatens to detonate them unless a massive
ransom is paid. Bond must follow the trail to the villainous
Maximillian Largo and a deadly assassin named Fatima Blush.
Dad's Preview:
As Roger Moore's Bond films grew sillier and more overstuffed, I
welcomed this unexpected return of Connery to the Ian Fleming
mythos. This film is lean on special effects, and wonderfully
loaded with action, femme fatales and devious villains. In many
ways it reminds me of the film that started it all,
Dr. No (1962),
and that's a good thing. Sir Sean Connery plays Bond as a mature
man with wit, charm and no propensity for bullshit. That's my
Bond, and I'm sticking to it.

Jack Schwartzman;
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