No Time to Die: Stale Bollinger in a Shiny New Bottle

Daniel Craig deserved to go out with a bang, but ended up finishing on a whimper with No Time to Die. The trailer is wildly misleading when it comes to the movie's pace, promising the audience a fast-paced spy thriller.

What we end up with, however, is a bunch of strained cliches and metaphors.

No Time to Die - Better Left Unwatched

The Plot of No Time to Die

Anyone who has watched the past few Bond movies will know in a few minutes that the House of Bond is at the recycling stage. They have stitched together older plots with one or two action sequences, hoping that nobody will notice.

Exhibit A is given below - the standard bond villain. In this case, it is a cross between Renard in "The World is Not Enough" and the phantom in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."

The Masked Villain Cliché

The ominous killer approaching the victim unawares is another trope that plays out across most action genres that they have used here.

Next is the pace at which this movie plays out - glacial at best, the movie drags on without any hint of a substantial plot. The action sequence with Ana de Armas is really good; however, not enough to save how stretchy the movie gets in parts. You can predict every part of the movie, except a few unexpected explosions that aren't that great, to begin with.

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There is one scene that is pretty cool where Daniel Craig's James Bond is with Léa Seydoux as Madeleine Swann within a bulletproof Aston Martin that is armed with two miniguns, or M134's. Bond chooses to use the gun at the very last moment when his car's defenses are just about to fail - befitting an intense spy character.

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The Cast

The cast is completely underutilized in this pointless flick about Bond trying to set the world right with a big sacrifice. Lashana Lynch is there for a few inconsequential scenes, spouting anemic dialogue where silence would have been better.

Ana de Armas shines as an action star in this hopeless phone-it-in performance by Daniel Craig. Rami Malek is again wasted in this epic fail of a Bond movie, where he barely gets any on-screen time. Badly scripted and poorly directed, this movie can't be saved by editing alone.

You get to see Ana De Armas' action chops in From The World of John Wick: Ballerina, even though the execution of what could have been an immense hit, instead flopped at the box office while retaining the favor of critics.

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Should You Watch It? - Please Don't!

One of the most over-hyped and under-entertaining movies in a long time, No Time to Die is not worth a pricey movie ticket. Wait until it is available in your OTT subscriptions to be disappointed at a lower cost.