James Bond - Time to Cry

Have you ever watched a film and become so overwhelmed with emotion?

Movies are made to bring us entertainment. They’re there to help us escape reality and feel emotion through the lives of fiction. They evoke emotion whether it be laughter and happiness from a comedy, fear from a horror or sadness from a drama.

Feeling all these emotions is a good thing, but has there ever been that one film that just overwhelms you so much that the emotion is so strong?

I love all movies, but particularly action movies. Some of my favourite films/series fall into this genre. From an action movie, I would expect lots of violence, fighting, tension, and suspense.

I would not expect to watch an action film and cry so much, especially since I haven’t watched many others in the series.

But this is what happened.

I don’t like crying. And I’ve never really cried at TV - unless you count the season 8 finale of Grey's Anatomy or the final episode of The Originals - but they’re stories for another day.

My family and I watched the new James Bond, No Time To Die for our Saturday movie night. My parents are big James Bond fans, they’ve seen every film. I, however, have not.

Yet I somehow ended up being the only one who had tears streaming down my face whilst we watched it.

I’m not going to spoil the film so don’t worry. But I did not expect what happened to happen.

It’s Daniel Craig’s final film as 007. It’s rounding up all of his storylines. That’s understandable. I expect that to happen.

But the movie wrecked me. Books normally do that, not movies. But this film did.

It was the best film I’ve watched this year by far, and I've watched quite a fair amount of films. It shocked me in the best way possible.

The last time a film got me so emotionally invested was Avengers: Endgame, when that finale to save the world from Thanos happened and everyone on either side of the screen was crying. I felt like I would be emotional for that because I love Marvel films.

But for James Bond? Completely unexpected.

The film itself was amazing with massive fight scenes and stunts in gorgeous Aston Martins. I can certainly see the appeal of the James Bond franchise.

It's made me want to watch the other Daniel Craig Bond movies, but I know that they won't be as good as No Time To Die. Admittedly, things would probably make a bit more sense if I'd seen all of his movies, rather than just snippets of some, but No Time To Die was just so good, I can't bring myself to watch the others.

But time will tell and I'll probably cave and force my family to rewatch the others with me.

Have you seen No Time To Die? What did you think of it? And what's your favourite Bond movie of all time?

Until next time...