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The results were a statistical draw. Octopussy grossed $187.5 million worldwide. Never Say Never Again grossed $160 million. Given that the renegade film cost less to make and Connery took a massive upfront salary, it was considered a financial success. Critically, reception was mixed. Critics loved Connery’s charisma and the novel “aging hero” theme but decried the sluggish pacing and cheap-looking production design (the film feels more like a 70s TV movie than a lavish Bond epic).

This is a Bond who needs naps. A Bond who struggles to pull himself up a rope. A Bond who relies on wit and cunning rather than raw physical dominance. When he fights the massive, silent henchman Lippe (Pat Roach) in a kitchen, he wins not by karate chops, but by encasing the man’s leg in concrete and jamming a parsnip into his neck. Never Say Never Again -James Bond 007-

In the sprawling, martini-soaked history of cinema’s longest-running franchise, one film sits on a peculiar throne: a bastard child, a legal loophole, and a glorious act of cinematic rebellion. That film is Never Say Never Again . The results were a statistical draw

The plot follows the classic SPECTRE playbook: The terrorist organization, led by the grotesque and lobotomized (played with theatrical menace by Max von Sydow), steals two nuclear warheads. They demand an impossible ransom from NATO, threatening to obliterate a major city. An aging James Bond (Connery), initially relegated to a remedial physical training course (more on that later), is reactivated to track the bombs down. Given that the renegade film cost less to