The fact that the end of Daniel Craig’s time as James Bond ultimately disappoints is due to the script, which failed in every respect.
Starting with the unnecessarily complicated threat to the world (a virus that is previously targeted to certain personal DNAs and thus only affects the specific person. Why?) To the disappointingly weak villain (Rami Malek as Lyutsifer Safin. Lyutsifer. Really?) To to the in itself inconsistent, often not explained and so provided with logic holes en masse tohuwabohu on the way to the great staged, but still not emotionally gripping end, “No Time To Die” is simply badly written cinema.
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Doesn’t that interest anyone anymore?
Of course, this James Bond looks great again and has great settings, but if the cogs never mesh and no longer tell a story, what is left of two and a half hours of continuous visual fire?
A given away Christoph Waltz, a lazy 007 successor, a crazy scientist who never hits the right note and incomprehensible behavior on all sides of the game – it almost makes me sad that such great scenes as the entry into the virus laboratory or the grand finale of the Daniel Craig era should therefore be filmed in a narrative as well as an emotional void.
Sad.
But for the wrong reasons.