Bond - No Time To Die Trailer Review: 7 Ups & 4 Downs

5. The Right Blend Of Nostalgia

For all of the complaints about Spectre, one of the things it did best was appeal to the rampant nostalgia that flows through the Bond fanbase like few other fandoms. This is, after all, a community of fans who see a DB5 and get all woozy and hot under the colour. And when you add machine guns to the headlights... All bets are off.

This trailer feels at times like evidence that Fukunaga understands what's being asked of him as a Bond film director, not only in the visual language of the film (which feels decidedly Bond-like) but also in some of the story pillars. So we get solo action set-pieces, lots of gadgets, a cartoonish villain, old favourites like the car, Blofeld and the supporting crew of Felix, Q, M and Moneypenny and a deliciously fan-baiting take on the gun barrel sequence at the end.

This is the director telling us we can still expect a Bond film and that sort of nostalgic... pandering (for want of a better word) is actually very welcome. Bond has got to 25 outings for a reason, after all.