![]() In the process, he manages to blow up a building, causing chaos and problems for MI6. It’s something of a vindication of Lynd who he still clearly holds a candle for.īond receives a secret message from M, recorded before her death, and is on the hunt for a man named Marco Sciarra who he finds and kills in Mexico City, taking a silver ring from his hand with an octopus symbol embedded in it. Bond, in learning to deal with his anger, turns him over to MI6 instead of killing him. In the final scene, Bond tracks down Lynd’s supposed boyfriend, who, it turns out, is a con man working for Quantum to seduce powerful women and blackmail them by pretending to get abducted. You don’t really need to know anything that happens except that the organisation behind it all is called Quantum, which is only mentioned in passing at the end of the film. The rest of the film is a tangled web of leads and assassinations leading up to an Elon Musk-type figure called Dominic Greene, a billionaire benefactor who is actually using his wealth and supposed charity projects to destabilise governments in developing nations and exploit them. However, all he tells them is that the organisation is everywhere before M’s long-term bodyguard turns on them, allowing Mr White to escape. Hoping to find out more about his organisation, he brings him in to be interrogated by M, the head of MI6, played by Judi Dench. The film opens with Bond on the run and Mr White in the boot of his car. However, despite its excellent opening track and pacey action scenes, it’s widely considered to be highly confusing and somewhat redundant. It follows the events of the previous one so closely that it might as well be considered a part two. The following film is a direct sequel to Casino Royale which is unusual for a Bond film. Still, an excellent introduction to Craig as Bond that defied all critical expectation. Overall, the film is a cracking suspense thriller with arguably the best opening song of the five films, however, it is a pretty standard Bond outing that doesn’t really offer anything groundbreaking for the franchise. In the final scene, we see him track down and capture Mr White at his home. ![]() ![]() Lynd is apparently so overcome with grief at betraying Bond that she takes her own life, leaving Bond out for revenge against this mysterious organisation. They had kidnapped her long-term partner and were holding him hostage to ensure they couldn’t lose the poker game. The big twist is that she was being blackmailed by Le Chiffre’s organisation through a man named Mr White. Cary Fukunaga, the director of No Time to Die, has said that the OG Bond of the Sean Connery era would be considered a rapist by today’s standards and, looking back at some of the early films, it’s hard to not feel pretty uneasy about his behaviour. While the books and the films remain classics, they also reflect the culture of their era, complete with casual racism, imperialist dogma, and outright misogyny. He took up the reigns from the previous-generation’s agent of suave, Pierce Brosnan and ushered in a new era for 007, bringing what was a thoroughly outdated character into the 21st Century. They’re packed with explosions, witty one-liners, and half naked ladies who often end up being seduced by Bond and then killed by someone else.Ĭraig has overseen five of the films, starting with 2006’s Casino Royale. Typically the films revolve around special agent James Bond thwarting the plot of a maniacal super villain with ambitions for world domination through a combination of special gadgets, military skill, and irresistible charm. ![]()
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