‘No Time To Die’ movie review: A long, loving goodbye to one of the greatest Bonds

For his swansong, Daniel Craig has thrown in his all — from the running and jumping to the emoting and romance — with breath-taking precision

There is a big fat twist, actually two, in No Time to Die that is bubbling at the tip of my fingers waiting to flow out on the keyboard. All I am going to say is, for those familiar with Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice, the big reveals might not come as too much of a surprise.

There are a bunch of similarities between the 1964 novel and No Time to Die. The working title for Bond #25 was Shatterhand, which was the name Blofeld had taken in the novel, while chilling in the Garden of Death with its many poisonous plants on the island of Kyushu. Safin (Rami Malek) the deranged, slithery, scarred psychopath in No Time to Die is operating out of an abandoned World War II base on a remote island between Russia and Japan... and his lair has a poisonous garden too.