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

4. The Action... Of Course

Some people criticised Spectre for being a little more ponderous than we're used to with Bond films, but you can see why Sam Mendes might have gone that way after making Skyfall to such success. That was, after all, a smaller, Bond-centric story that happened in parallel to a global terrorist strike story. For No Time To Die, though, it looks like we're going bigger again.

That agenda shines through the commitment to large scale action sequences and while that all went way too far in Quantum Of Solace, it's good to see Fukunaga taking a lead from that other hugely successful action franchise - Mission: Impossible - for the set-pieces. Who doesn't want to see Bond as a one man army defying gravity and unlikely odds to save the day?

And it's not like Fukunaga could make another small-scale, Bond-centric story, as much as that would have fit Daniel Craig's last performance as Bond. To a certain extent, Skyfall should have been the last movie in Craig's era, but that's impossible and the answer is to turn up the threat to him, make everything more breathless and promise explosive ramifications.