By Davondre Huyler, Contributing Writer
If you love action-packed movies with themes of betrayal, revenge, family, power, and James Bond, then “No Time to Die” is the perfect movie for you.
No Time to Die is the latest James Bond movie, released in 2021. It stars a famous British actor, Daniel Craig, and this movie is the last one he would act in. This movie brought tears to the die-hard James Bond fans’ eyes, especially those that love Daniel Craig.
The movie takes you to various parts of the world such as Italy, Jamaica, London, Faroe Islands, and Cuba, while it gives a detailed view of those who work for an intelligence agency, and a never-ending ‘spy life.’
The plot consists of a retired Bond in Jamaica, who in his last mission, defeated the leader of the terrorist organization SPECTRE. He wanted to live a peaceful life.
This goal was never achieved; Bond somehow always must deal with the trouble.
He was then pestered by a good friend in the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A) to help him with an important mission, which forced him back into the spy life.
Throughout this mission, there are trails of bodies, old and new villains, plot twists, secrets, and lots of suspense up until the end of the movie. But the biggest thing he encountered was a biological weapon capable of causing mass deaths in the hands of a very dangerous man.
Although there were many secrets within the movie, one stood out from the others. It was very significant for Bond in which he sacrifices his life in.
No Time To Die is about tying up loose ends, especially for the fans. Of course, there were the usual action-packed scenes, but the major themes in this movie were family and revenge.
The events of this movie can be understood completely if you watch the previous movie in this series, called Spectre (2015). Many key details and characters from Spectre have been presented in this movie as they contributed heavily to the dialogue, scenes, plot, conflict, and resolution.
In the end, the die-hard fans will show much respect to Bond for his acts of bravery. It was saddening to see that Bond thought he was already done with his last mission prior to the events of this movie in the James Bond series, not knowing that this would be his actual last mission.
Fans won’t be able to hear Daniel Craig say the famous James Bond line, “The name’s Bond, James Bond,” anymore, unless they happen to rewatch any of his previous James Bond films.
No Time To Die is a ‘must watch’ for those who haven’t yet. It was a complete send-off to Daniel Craig. The creators gave a hint to a new movie in the future as they reassigned his legendary 007 agent number to a woman who Bond had the chance to work with before his demise.
