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Never Say Never Again (1983) -- A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.

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Kevin McClory (story) &
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Release Date:
7 October 1983 (USA) more
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If you haven't seen Sean Connery in 'Never Say Never Again' then you haven't seen James Bond 007! more
Plot:
A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations more
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(29 articles)
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Not terrible, just tired, flat, and uninspired more (171 total)


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Also Known As:
James Bond 007 - Sag niemals nie (West Germany)
James Bond of the Secret Service (UK) (working title)
James Bond, Secret Agent (UK) (working title)
Warhead (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
134 min | Germany:121 min (cut version)
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2.20 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)
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The Maximilian Largo character in this movie was called Emilio Largo in the earlier version Thunderball (1965). In early outlines / treatments for that movie, he was known as Henrico Largo. more
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The story Largo tells Domino about the "Tears of Allah" is illogical. "The prophet wept for the barrenness of the desert, and his tears made a well." Islam's Prophet is Muhammad/Mohammed, not Allah. Furthermore, a Muslim fortress would never have been permitted to have the pagan statues we see. more
Quotes:
Fatima Blush: You know that making love to Fatima was the greatest pleasure of your life.
James Bond: Well, to be perfectly honest, there was this girl in Philadelphia...
Fatima Blush: SHUT UP!
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Featured in Inside 'Octopussy' (2000) (V) more
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Une Chanson D'amour more

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17 out of 27 people found the following review useful.
Not terrible, just tired, flat, and uninspired, 22 March 2008
Author: AdnanZ

"Never Say Never Again", as everyone knows by now, was the second Bond film to be released in 1983, and was nearly as big a hit as "Octopussy" was (that film was still playing in some theaters when "Never Say Never Again" was released). Lacking the distinctive gun-barrel opening and famous Bond theme among other distinctive features of the EON franchise films, this lacks not only the feel of the EON Bond series, but of Fleming's work, leaving a seriously bloated mess of an American action thriller which happens to feature Bond as the lead character.

Why? That's the first question anybody should be asking about this film. A cynic (which I probably qualify as) would say 'for the cash', others might say it was just to get Connery back as Bond and give him a proper goodbye. Some might say it was in retaliation to the direction the Moore films were headed in, although "For Your Eyes Only" is a far superior and far less bloated film than this, so that argument doesn't quite work.

Of course, there's a lot to dislike here. Connery has moments of inspiration where he slips right back into character, but for most of the film he just looks really old and slightly ridiculous, which fits the plot but doesn't make his performance any less tired. Still, I'd argue that this is a better send-off for him as Bond than "Diamonds are Forever". Kim Basinger is a terrible Bond girl, and as much as I like Rowan Atkinson he shouldn't be anywhere near a Bond film. In addition, the villains here fall flat as well.

That said, "Never Say Never Again" is not a film I can hate, even if I wanted to (and I never want to hate anything), simply because little of it comes off as especially bad yet all of it comes off as flat, bland, and uninspired, and far, far too American for a Bond film. It's just sort of... there being the bloated, over-long, but not terrible film it is. I don't count it as a 'Bond film', as it doesn't feel remotely like one, but even just as an action thriller it doesn't quite work.

5/10

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