The 25th Bond movie finally arrived after several postponements and delays due to the covid pandemic. It also brought to bear the final outing as 007 for Mr. Daniel Craig, since he begun his stewardship in Casino Royale.
In some ways a final chapter has been written, with I’m sure a new one to take place at some point in the not too distant future. For now this is the Bond Poetic version of ‘No Time to Die’.
Death Has No Time…
The 25th film is the end?
Don’t be silly?
The next 007 is just around bend
As the hit theme song is tuned in by Billie
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Swann still has a lot to hide
Her youthful nightmare won’t let go
In Bond she does not confide
As they escape the bullets from Primo
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Five years go unnoticed; but is it a con?
James is now outside the spy club
Hercales is born; the new bioweapon
The killer could be a plant or a shrub
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It’s Obruchev master plan
Backed by the head of MI6
Nanobots; DNA; touch; become deadpan
What was broken; can they now fix?
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Steal back the mad scientist
The big bash for Mr. ESB; for sure
A new mad man turns on the mist
And ‘poof’, the old SPECTRE is no more
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Ash has two faces
Leiter is no more
007 & Bond are now in a race
To get Obruchev; and even the score
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Now the plan starts to go awry
From the hand of the master Safin
In prison; Bond is Blofeld’s last goodbye
As he uses the touch of miss Madeleine
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Infected at Safin’s hands
Bond now knows his fate
Is he finally a father, the ‘man’
Or is he decades; far too late?
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Nomi and Bond plan their final attack
Safin’s missile nanobot base
Heracles bots made many; no slack
Will Madeleine and Bond get away safe?
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Nomi steps in to save mother & daughter
Takes them to a safe place
Safin tries to put Bond to a ‘bot’ slaughter
Bond fights back; putting Safin on his face
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Mathilde and Madeleine talk to Bond
The missiles are in the air; deployed
‘The child is yours’; 007 is where he belongs
Only one choice taken; for Bond and the island to be destroyed…
Here is a Poetic summary of the 24 James Bond films thus far (as we’re currently being entertained by film no 25 ‘No Time to Die’. (I’m hoping to see it this weekend)
You can view all 24 Bond Poetic poems (one per film from Dr No in 1963 to Spectre) on this blog or listen them on my podcast – https://anchor.fm/horace-evans8
Quantum is Daniel Craig’s second outing as 007 – a change in focus for the bond films more action and drama rather than a focus on nifty gadgets from Q. This played into Daniel Craig’s demeanour in this stunt filled actioner.
All episodes of the Bond Poetic are available as a Podcast (via Anchor/Spotify) and available on other podcast platforms like Apple and Google.)
Welcome to Daniel Craig as the new Bond (This means bond has been played by a countryman from our 4 UK nations – Daniel Craig – English/ Pierce Brosnan – Irish/Sean Connery – Scottish/ Timothy Dalton Welsh (and of course George Lazenby who was Australian) . We see Bond become a ’00’ by affecting two kills to gain entry – and then he begins to gamble with his life and money in the start of a running theme from this film up to episode 24…
All episodes of the Bond Poetic are available as a Podcast (via Anchor/Spotify) and available on other podcast platforms like Apple and Google.)
The Royalist Casino
Daniel is Bond; and is back at the start
Entry to 007 means two kills
Will he have the stomach;the heart
To ensure that he pays the bill
In Uganda, Mr. White helps Le Chiffre find a new client
Hiding the criminal cash in Skyfleet stocks
The money made and hidden makes them compliant
Now its time for the ticking of the clock
Madagascar becomes the place to be
The terrorist bombmaker is there
An explosive interdiction is there for all to see
Bond escapes by a whisker and a hair
In the Bahamas Dimitrios becomes the target
He loses his wife and his Aston Martin car
Now they’re in Miami airport – it’s like a market
Surely Domitrios can’t have gotten far
Bond puts Domtrios to sleep
But there’s a skyfleet plane about to blow
Bond stops the bomb from going ’bleep’
The airport bomber is all over the show
Vesper enters Bond’s world with cash
The Le Chiffre high stakes poker game
Her entrance makes right kind of smash
Rene Mathis helps keeps things sane
The Ugandan terror man seeks Le Chiffre
His millions gone up in Skyfleet smoke
In Montenegro they let him feel their heat
By cooking up a ‘Ugandan’ arti-choke
Bond becomes cocky – about Le Chiffre’s tell
He loses heavily in one swift move
The time has come to ring the bell
As poison enters Bond’s body- with little time to lose
Vesper now to the rescue
Is Bond now out of the game?
He bounces back right on cue
Felix Leiter subs the money – stakes the claim
The sweeping win lets Bond gloat
Le Chiffre in more trouble than he can cope
Vesper is taken as a deposit – a float
A trap for Bond is set – its what Le Chiffre hopes
This was Pierce Brosnan’s last outing as Bond – This time he is challenged to recognised a face from the past that has irrevocably changed – his enemy has changed and is supported by Jinx the CIA helper/agent who has her own agenda until they joins forces to overthrow the bad side…This time the theme tune to this film is sung by none other than Madonna (who has a small cameo role in the film!)
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Another Day to die…
Off to the to the North Bond goes
Diamonds are the cash for arms
Bond captured; won’t tell what he knows
The General means to do him serious harm
The death of the general’s son
Leads to tourture for over a year
Bonds scars cannot be undone
But finds being traded a price far too dear
Bond is convinced there is a mole
Someone working for both sides
Jinx helps Bond dig a hole
In Cuba is where Zao resides
They stumble on those diamonds again
Conflict ones on the the scene
The gene therapy room, no longer remains
As Zao and his cronies get away clean
So who is Gustav Graves?
A man of more than one face?
The fencing fight leaves Bond with a close shave
And Mr. Graves with a little ‘egg’ on his face
Miranda Frost joins the team
She represents the ice in the land they head for
In the palace where Icarus shines a light like a beam
Leaves Bond to rescue Jinx and get out of that door
And now the face of the ‘Moon’ is revealed
Graves is the general’s ‘dead’ son
Bond admits the scheme was exquisitely concealed
Now he and Jinx must fire their gun
The inside man is a woman
Frost proving she is cold as ice
Straight faced and dispassionate; the true deadpan
Bond faces two enemies in one – a seductress and her maniacal companion combine to threaten the world – as the ‘world isn’t enough’ for them. 007 is supported by a young Dr call ‘Christmas Jones’..i’ll say no more on that…
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Bond is out for revenge – after his CIA buddie Felix Leiter and his wife are attached by Robert Davi’s drug lord character. The original title changed from Licence Revoked to Licence to Kill – the them song being sung by Gladys Knight…This was to be Tim Dalton’s second and final outing as James Bond.
All episodes of the Bond Poetic are available as a Podcast (via Anchor/Spotify) and available on other podcast platforms like Apple and Google.)
Bond has to deal with an offshoot from the Russian experiments (the maniac Zorin played by Christopher Walken) coupled with a fierce (as ever) Grace Jones (MayDay) – what a combo!
All episodes of the Bond Poetic are available as a Podcast (via Anchor/Spotify) and available on other podcast platforms like Apple and Google.)
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