1983 · adventure · action · thriller
Never Say Never Again
Directed by Irvin Kershner2h 14m1983
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge.
Our read: Never Say Never Again (1983) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded adventure · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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