8 Fixes That Would've Improved No Time To Die
1. Ditch Safin And Make Blofeld The Main Villain
Finally, what is the biggest problem is this mostly successful Bond flick? That's simple: the villains.
Safin is crap. He barely appears, he and Bond don't share enough scenes together and he's got no personality or menace, so he's a terrible let-down and a huge waste of poor Rami Malek (who gives a perfectly solid performance but couldn't quite save the character).
The other huge issue is Blofeld. Thanks to Spectre he ended up stuck in a prison for this film and while his one scene with Bond is good, he suddenly dies after being infected by the Heracles Project. Seriously?!
After the terrible killing off of Blofeld in the opening of 1981's For Your Eyes Only, you'd think Eon had learned their lesson but no, Blofeld gets yet another awful, rushed death here. And the rest of Spectre gets killed off in a rushed way by the virus too. This was such an insulting way to treat Bond's arch-enemy (regardless of the mistakes made with him in the previous film), so how to fix this?
Ditch Safin, have Blofeld broken out of prison in act one and make him the main villain. After all, the virus seemed like something he would want to do and if he'd been responsible for Bond's death, that would've been even more powerful. Craig's Bond should've finished with facing his nemesis, but instead we got him fighting a low-grade Bond villain that he barely even knew. What a shame.