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 enlarge | Director: Irvin Kershner
Actors: Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max Von Sydow, Barbara Carrera, Kim Basinger
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  192 reviews
Sales Rank: 2385
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 133 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 027616853981
ISBN: 0792847229
UPC: 027616853981
EAN: 9780792847229
ASIN: B00004WEJZ
Theatrical Release Date: 1983
Release Date: October 17, 2000
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Focus on the women, not the script January 2, 2008
L. Peters (NC)
Even a bad James Bond movie has considerable entertainment value. Unfortunately, Never Say Never Again IS a bad James Bond movie.
This time, SPECTRE has stolen a pair of nuclear weapons and is demanding tribute from the world's wealthiest nations. Bond, played by Sean Connery, finds himself up against a megalomaniac and his own boss, M, who disapproves of the 00 agents. The 00 boss disapproving of the 00's is one of a number of script elements that doesn't make much sense to the alert viewer.
Connery's acting is the only selling point of this film (Too old? No way!) Klaus-Maria Brandauer as Maximilian Largo is a peculiar villain that certainly comes off as mad, but not really threatening. Barbara Carrera as Fatima Blush is more than threatening, but perhaps she is hamming it up a bit too much for the cameras. Kim Basinger has all of the beauty of a Barbie doll, but her character, Domino Petachi has only slightly more personality than a Barbie doll.
The Bond women have all of the sex appeal that you expect, but the gadgets, the stunts, the soundtrack, and the climax all fall short. Viewers with some passion for 007 movies will not want to miss this. More casual viewers have better options available.
 "Now pay attention 007.." November 28, 2007
Frederick of Hollywood (Arizona)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
A bond movie without the Bond Horns going off, you know..Ta da Ta Daa, Ta da da! is not a Bond Movie period end of story! If you're a real man you won't watch this bond! It's been documented, you'll either lose your hair or lose testosterone! You've been warned....
I had to up my rating all the way to one star! That was tough.
 The "red-headed step-child" of the Bond series November 28, 2007
Randy E. Halford (Boise, ID)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bond fans often turn up their noses with the mention of this film. They've called it "Connery at his worst" or complained that it's not a "genuine" entry in the series. Yet, I went to see it when it was first released & liked it. A remake of the classic "Thunderball", it's flawed & imperfect, but still an enjoyable film. It was great to see Sean Connery again in his "007" status, playing an older Bond, but one which hasn't lost his knack for adventure & romance.
While some of the trademarks are missing---understandably, since it was made outside the home studios of MGM/UA---it's the film itself that counts, and Connery makes the most of it, showing all the other Bond actors how it's done. He slips back into the role so easily that it's as if he never left.
It also benefits from a first-rate villain in actor Klaus Maria Brandauer as Largo, a baddie who's more complex than the sum of his parts. Kim Basinger--here at the beginning of her film career--plays the typical Bond babe who finds herself in a power struggle between Bond & Largo.
This is a much-maligned film that deserves a second look.
Not just the worst Bond film, but one of the worst films I've seen November 15, 2007
Jed (UK)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I remember when this was released in the cinemas, people were pretty much lukewarm towards it;
"It's just a remake of Thunderball" were common remarks. Looking back on it after 25 years though it's apparent what an astonishing pile of backside this film really is.
Now I know that in essence much of the Bond world *is* rather silly if you really think about it, the films are mostly made with such craftmanship that there is suspension of disbelief. On the other hand Never Say Never Again is far sillier, and is made so ineptly that disbelief is not so much suspended as hanging by a thread- which is broken every fifteen minutes or so. This is James Bond almost reduced to slapstick comedy. Eg at a health farm Bond throws a bottle of liquid at an assailant , who falls to the ground unconscious. Bond looks at the bottle and discovers that it's his own urine sample. In the cinema this might have raised an (uneasy) chuckle, but objectively it's more fitting for a Carry On film. The villainess is destroyed by an explosive pen, Rowan Atkinson, then hot property as Blackadder, makes a cameo....etc. And one of the films supposedly "memorable" points has Bond and villain playing a video game in a casino. This looks extremely dated , even kitsch now. I find it hard to believe the makers could be so oblivious to the fact that this would look so dated in later years.
Okay, the bile is spent. I do kind of like the Bond movies, but this movie should become a textbook case of how NOT to do a remake!
 Scrapes by on Connery's charisma alone November 6, 2007
Mr. Stephen Kennedy (Doha, Qatar)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
At a time when Roger was playing Bland, James Bland... the prospect of an unofficial Bond movie enticing Sean Connery to return to the role was mouthwateringly tantalizing. And at the time it came out in 1983, the competition was one of Moore's weakest efforts, Octopussy, making the Bond versus Bond clash seem one sided in this movies favour. Never Say Never Again has a larger budget, stronger cast and is based on an Ian Fleming story.
Alas, the end result turns out to be not much better than a parody of the earlier Bonds, and despite a strong cast the script is so clunky and obvious that the wit and panache of Bond is missing. Worse, the music is anachronistic and dated. Of course, for legal reasons, they could not use John Barry's timeless themes, but all the more reason one would have thought to spend more time getting the score just right for the tone of the movie. Perhaps the most serious crime of all.. it is more than a bit dull. You find yourself waiting for an action scene to come along, then when one comes along, you wish they would get it over with. Aside from an effective bike-chasing-car scene, no other action scene resonates after the credits have rolled.
It's not all bad.. Kim Basinger is a lithe and lovely Bond girl, and Klaus Maria Brandauer is a deliciously quirky villain. A few scenes hold up - the dance scene when Bond tells Domino her brother is dead, the fistfight at Shrublands with Pat Roach (from Auf Wiedersehen pet), and at least we don't have the dreadful speeded up boat scene from the otherwise far superior original, `Thunderball'.
Finally, with the `official' Bond movies so well digitally remastered and sound remixed, the very poor quality of the sound mix and blemished print are all the more obvious. Sound is very boomy and with no surround mix - speech is muffled, and I had to turn up the volume much higher than usual to hear any detail. Aside from one trailer, there are no extras.
The worst of Moore's Bond outings can still be enjoyed, even when the grin is mixed with a groan... here though, the grin has become a fixed grimace, and the pleasures are few and far between. Connery's charisma pulls us through without feeling obliged to give up half way through - but the temptation is never far away. Worth watching only for nostalgia's sake, to see Connery's Bond swansong.
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