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movie review - No Time to Die

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is the latest Bond flick and it is not good. It's not good at the beginning, in which a putative grown man ditches his pregnant girlfriend over a transparent misunderstanding without a thought. It's not good in the middle while we wade through the perils of his return to active service (a saucy young woman has his license number!). It's good while a minor character steals the entire show for about ten minutes. Then it's not good again while it drags to a clunky ending with him being killed by a missile strike.

Bond has so thoroughly swallowed its own tail with the supposed off-screen dramas of which actor's time is up that the on-screen story takes second place. It's been this way off-and-on for decades with only one really good offering in years. Wow, many years.

Not recommended. Even for fans.