Review OF THE year 2021
THE Ending
NO TIME TO DIE’S SHOCK FINALE
AS DANIEL CRAIG’S swan song hurtles towards its finale, 007 seems, as ever, about to triumph.
But then… well. Rami Malek’s Safin infects him with nanobots and, facing eternal misery thanks to the virus leaving Bond unable to touch his wife and child ever again, he accepts his fate, going out in a hail of missiles. Here, Team Empire thrash out 2021’s most heart-stopping cinematic conclusion.
Beth Webb (Contributing Editor): I’d been pretty tired of the franchise, so the fact that it had this really emotional pay-off was really rewarding. I like Bond at his most vulnerable anyway. I liked him in Casino Royale, naked and bound to a chair. Daniel Craig has continued with that vulnerability throughout, and with this, he wasn’t a Bond that was afraid to die.