No Time to Die .

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#NoTimeToDie

Best (Allergy-Inducing😰)Bond, Ever!

Okay, time for true confessions. Way back when, in the mid-aughts(if you can remember all the way back then), when they announced Craig as the new Bond I was so outraged I actually signed that Change Dot Org CraigNotBond petition. By rights, the great #CliveOwen should've taken over the shaken-not-stirred tux(I mean, had the producers not seen #Croupier…or that awesomely melancholic-heroic #WongKarWai BMW advert?!).

And then the #CasinoRoyale…trailer! And, once again, I realised how wrong I was.

So, yeah, with apologies to #RogerMoore, DC ended up being the Best Bond, Ever! And now, as his valediction, he gets a more-than-worthy good-bye courtesy of the Director-With-A-Capital-D Fukunaga, who, surprisingly, lets the emotions take precedence over the breathless action (even the single-take stairwell scene isn't too show-offy👍). And that pre-credits sequence, standing O🙌!

And the cast is certainly up to the task: Malek(underused), Fiennes(I always tell TBH, in another time, maybe?…), Harris(we could've used more Moneypenny), Kinnear(love the guy), Whishaw(honestly, the, ahem, secret weapon😂 for the series), Wright(great bro-chemistry), Magnussen(fun, as always), Lynch(maybe an Amazon Prime spinoff, she's awesome!), Waltz(very Lecter-creepy), de Armas(kicks some pretty cool a**, maybe her and Lynch can team up for that aforementioned AP series🤔?).

And, of course, Craig. Boy, what a job he ended up doing. Well, your race is run Mr. Craig, you now have…all the time in the world…

PS. #Safin! I mean, that *gorgeous* jump-double-handed-backhand was a thing of diabolical beauty, didn't realise it was Bond Villain worthy🎾👊!

PPS. #WallaceAndGromit🙌!







[Spoiler Alert!] "I know…"😭

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Cary Joji Fukunaga Hans Zimmer Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Daniel Craig Rami Malek Ralph Fiennes Ben Whishaw Christoph Waltz Jeffrey Wright Naomie Harris Ana de Armas Lea Seydoux Lashana Lynch Rory Kinnear Billy Magnussen David Dencik …whew! a sprawling cast to match the runtime😆!
James Bond Vesper Lynd(sigh…Still the Best BG Ever!)
@007 @mgmstudios @cary_fukunaga


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