1241st movie, 198th from the 1990s, 356th on Disney+

An annual watch, 3rd viewing, and also a part of our Quentin Tarantino (uncredited screenwriter) and Michael Bay collections.

Rating: 7/10

Distraction rating: 6/10

Plot armour rating: 9.5/10

Rewatch rating: 3/5

I actually had to look it up to find that I was not the only person who believed that Sean Connery’s character was an imprisoned James Bond.

The Internet did not did not disappoint, and it ended up being a rather popular theory. I will not, however, try to tie this into the movie Bond timeline. Instead, I can work on all this happening in an alt-timeline, a multiverse, as the popular movie executives are calling it now.

So now that we know a James Bond is locked up, it gives this movie a whole other dimension of fun. This is a solid, silly action movie whose plot is a little messy with soldiers who at some point are willing to go all the way, but then do not.

Movie evil guy, with end of movie plot conscience.

Which, of course, leads to a secondary evil guy taking charge and an all-out mess of bad guys.

No one is ignoring James Bond and his friend, who both have a lot to lose if the bad guys succeed. Let us ignore the fact that James was in prison all this time, ignoring that which was most precious to him, who up until this point had basically considered him dead. So now, if anything happens, she “can has trauma.”

Okay, it was a tangent of plot holes. When you bring it back to James Bond, however, everything makes sense. Although the villains in this movie are more early SPECTRE, rather than the newer incarnation. Felix can not always save you James.