Never Say Never Again [DVD] [1983] | ![Never Say Never Again [DVD] [1983]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519RVZJ44TL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Irvin Kershner
Actors: Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barbara Carrera, Max von Sydow
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 5879
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 128 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050070006292
ASIN: B00005ABTT
Theatrical Release Date: October 7, 1983
Release Date: April 23, 2001
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After years of enduring Roger Moore in the role of James Bond, it was good to have Sean Connery back in 1983 for Never Say Never Again, a one-time-only trip down 007's memory lane. Connery's Bond, a bit of a dinosaur in the British secret service at (then) 52, is still in demand during times of crisis. Sadly, the film is not very good. In this rehash of Thunderball, Bond is pitted against a worthy underwater villain (Klaus Maria Brandauer); and while the requisite Bond Girls include beauties Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera, they can't save the movie. The script has several truly dumb passages, among them a (gasp) video-game duel between 007 and his nemesis that now looks utterly anachronistic. For Connery fans, however, this widescreen print of the Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back) film is a chance to say a final goodbye to a perfect marriage of actor and character. --Tom Keogh
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 the best Bond back in business March 3, 2010
Garry R. Walls (yorkshire england)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This isnt an "official" Bond film but, as Sean Connery is undoubtedly the best of all the Bonds, it is great to have one more movie featuring him.
I can understand the critisism of some reviewers who feel that the movie is often lacking but, i think that the charm of these films is due to the man not the explosions or special effects. I think the more modern Bond films focus too much on special effects, big explosions and over the top production. For me, the idea of tangling with a villian and escaping near death and yet remaining immaculately dressed and making one of the famous Bond quips afterwards was what being James Bond was all about.
I enjoyed this film. It was the only Connery one that i hadnt seen and was prepared for a dissapointment after reading the reviews but i was pleasantly surprised and would recommend it to any Bond fan who hasnt seen it yet
Connery said never again but gave his fans another chance... February 7, 2010
D. McAndrew (Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
WARNING. This region A blu-ray disc has been coded differently to every other region A blu-ray disc I've encountered so far. It unfortunately would NOT play on my all region blu-ray player, giving the message that it required a region A ONLY player. I have played many region A blu-ray discs on my player, but for some strange reason, this one must have been coded differently to stop overseas buyers from enjoying this movie.
As for the film, it's not Sean's best Bond but but it is highly entertaining anyway.
Never Say Never Again August 14, 2009
C. Lea (Dorset, England)
Not the best Bond film but hey, when youv'e got the whole series it would be rude not too!!!
 Unofficial Junk Bond June 28, 2009
Matthew Mercy (Wigan, England)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
In 1983, twelve years after he supposedly quit the role for good, Sean Connery returned as James Bond in the `unofficial' Never Say Never Again. A remake of Thunderball, and the result of years of legal action by Kevin McClory against Eon Productions (McClory helped Ian Fleming come up with the original story for Thunderball), this film was a reasonable hit on release, with the critics and public (apparently) grateful to see Connery back in the role (which must have left Roger Moore a little nonplussed, as his Eon Bond movies had been doing very impressive box office business for the previous ten years). However, on viewing the film twenty-five years later, it is plainly apparent that the film owed all its success to Connery and nobody else, because apart from the chance to see him back in the part of Bond, there is absolutely no reason to sit through it; Never Say Never Again is in many ways a chronic film. For a start, Thunderball was never the most exciting Bond film anyway, so lifting the plot wholesale was not a good idea. Many of the standard Bond characters are re-cast with different actors (as of course they had to be), and then played as atrocious caricatures (as they most certainly did not have to be); thus Edward Fox's M is a blustering, upper-class blowhard, Alec McCowen's Q is a creepy, sniffling oddball, and in her one scene as Miss Moneypenny, Pamela Salem comes across as nothing more than a dim-witted love-struck typist. Kim Basinger can't compete with the gorgeous Claudine Auger as Bond girl Domino, in the same way that Barbara Carrera's villainess is about 10% as effective as Luciana Paluzzi, whilst simultaneously being about as sexy as Bernard Bresslaw. Klaus Maria Brandauer is weak as the main villain, whilst Max Von Sydow gets far too little screen time to make anything of his Blofeld (though it's worth noting that Von Sydow's take on the character bears far more of a resemblance to the unseen figure of From Russia With Love and Thunderball than did any of the three actors who took the role proper in the Eon series). Weakly paced, poorly shot, and badly edited, the film has some truly awful set pieces (Bond and Domino going off a 500 foot-high castle wall, on a horse, is especially stupid), contrasted with other sequences that are simply dull (the shark attack, and the dated `computer game' duel in particular). Rowan Atkinson turns up and embarrasses himself as a sort of prototype Johnny English, whilst the entire musical score is absolutely dreadful. And despite the punters flocking to see him, it has to be noted that Connery isn't that great either; he is definitely in Diamonds Are Forever mode here. Aside from a nice turn by Bernie Casey as Felix Leiter (probably the best since Jack Lord in Dr No), and a surprisingly impressive, and funny, cameo by Pat `Bomber' Roach as a SPECTRE hitman, the film has nothing at all to recommend it. That it comes off so badly against even the middling Eon films of the same period (For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy) says it all; Connery's last film as Bond is down there with Moonraker and Die Another Day as one of the very worst.
 WARNING June 4, 2009
Kenneth F. Mcara (Dundee, Scotland)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Be aware that this is a Region A (USA) blu ray disc, and you will need a region-free Blu Ray Player to watch it. Allegedly the picture is much improved from the standard DVD release, although the sound still leaves a lot to be desired.
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