8 Fixes That Would've Improved No Time To Die

5. Establish More Tension Regarding The Heracles Project

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Main villain Safin (Rami Malek) plans to use a biological weapon called the Heracles Project, a virus that targets specific people based on their DNA, on millions of people around the world. As such, there are bigger stakes here than there were in any of the other Craig films and the Heracles Project, though ludicrous, was a very good idea. It just would've been good to have a bit more tension established regarding it.

We only see its effects when it kills Spectre's agents (and no-one cares about those scumbags!) and when Bond destroys the facility, it's not about to be launched or anything.

To give the film more of a sense of threat, a scene where it was used on innocent people should've been inserted and Bond should've been facing a countdown when destroying the virus at the end. In an action film, suspense and stakes are absolutely everything and this would've made the film's already excellent finale even better.

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