10 Major Concerns About Upcoming Movies
9. The 163-Minute Runtime - No Time To Die
Bond fans are absolutely chomping at the bit to feast their eyes upon Daniel Craig's much-delayed final outing as 007, No Time to Die.
Though the particulars of the movie's plot have been kept curiously under wraps, it's been known for quite some time that the 25th Bond film will be the longest by quite a stretch.
No Time to Die has been confirmed to clock in at a hefty 163 minutes, a whole 15 minutes longer than the second-longest effort, Spectre, and almost an hour longer than the shortest Bond film, Quantum of Solace.
Though epic runtimes aren't inherently alarming, given that Spectre was such an aggressively bloated mess of a film, it's tough to simply accept that any Bond film really needs close to three hours to tell its story.
120-140 minutes generally seems to be the sweet spot for the series, and as talented as director Cary Fukunaga is, and as much as the film is clearly being mounted as a grandiose farewell to the Craig era, it's still tough to believe the conventions of the franchise won't prove exhausting over 163 minutes.
We'd all love to be proven wrong of course, but in an era where blockbuster movies seem to just keep getting longer, some restraint is most certainly welcome.