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GenreAction, Adventure & Thriller
RatedPG-13
Runtime2 hr 43 mins
ReleasedOctober 8, 2021
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorCary Joji Fukunaga
StarringDaniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux
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No Time to Die (2021)
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| No Time to Die's Details | |
| Genre | Action, Adventure & Thriller |
| Rated | PG-13 |
| Released | 09/28/2021 (Royal Albert Hall); 09/30/2021 (United Kingdom); 10/08/2021 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 2 hr 43 mins |
| Budget | $250–301M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | James Bond by Ian Fleming |
| Country | United Kingdom, United States |
| Language | English |
| No Time to Die's Interests | |
| General | Italian hill towns, Jamaican fishing boats, a party in Cuba, a vintage Aston Martin DB5, tuxedos. |
| Music | Hans Zimmer, plus Billie Eilish singing the title song. |
| Movies | Casino Royale (2006). Where this whole Craig run kicked off. |
| Television | Killing Eve. More spies, more chaos, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge worked on both. |
| Heroes | Paloma (Ana de Armas). Three weeks of training and she still steals the movie. |
| No Time to Die's Crew | |
| Director | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| Writers | Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Neal Purvis (story), Robert Wade (story), Cary Joji Fukunaga (story) |
| Producers | Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli |
| Cinematography | Linus Sandgren |
| Music | Hans Zimmer |
| Edited By | Elliot Graham, Tom Cross |
| Production | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Eon Productions |
| Distributed By | United Artists Releasing (United States), Universal Pictures (International) |
Poison garden. Porcelain mask. A plan nobody in the theater could explain on the drive home. Rami Malek’s Safin is the weakest part of No Time to Die, a villain with great interior design and nothing to say. Everything else is Daniel Craig’s victory lap, and at 163 minutes it’s a long lap. The opening in Italy is gorgeous and tense. Ana de Armas shows up in Cuba for one fight, steals the whole movie in an evening gown and then leaves, which feels like a crime. Lashana Lynch’s Nomi is fun whenever the script lets her be. Craig finally gets to play Bond as a person with something to lose, and he’s great at it. It made $906.8 million worldwide on a reported budget north of $250 million, so the goodbye paid for itself. A 7.0 because the farewell lands and the villain doesn’t. $3,202 says you spend the next week arguing with someone about which Craig Bond movie is the best one.
What works: Craig’s most human Bond, the tense Italian opening, and Ana de Armas making a short appearance feel like a whole movie.
What doesn’t: Safin is a forgettable villain with a muddled plan, and 163 minutes is far more than this story needs.
Who it’s for: Craig-era Bond fans who want a real ending to his run and don’t mind it taking its time.
Spoilers
Bond learns Madeleine’s daughter Mathilde is his, then gets infected with a nanobot weapon coded to their DNA, so he can never touch them again. He stays behind on Safin’s island as the missiles hit, and James Bond does not make it out.
James Bond (Daniel Craig) is trying out a quiet life in southern Italy with Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), until an ambush makes him doubt her. Five years later he is retired and fishing in Jamaica when his old CIA friend Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) asks a favor: track down a kidnapped scientist and a dangerous stolen weapon. MI6 has a new 007, Nomi (Lashana Lynch), who wants Bond out of her way. Meanwhile, a quiet, scarred man named Safin (Rami Malek) has plans of his own. Cary Joji Fukunaga directs. One hundred sixty-three minutes, and Craig makes every one count.
Anyone who has followed Daniel Craig's Bond since Casino Royale. Pack for Jamaica.
| Daniel Craig | James Bond |
| Léa Seydoux | Dr. Madeleine Swann |
| Rami Malek | Lyutsifer Safin |
| Lashana Lynch | Nomi |
| Ralph Fiennes | Gareth Mallory / M |
| Ben Whishaw | Q |
| Naomie Harris | Eve Moneypenny |
| Jeffrey Wright | Felix Leiter |
| Billy Magnussen | Logan Ash |
| Ana de Armas | Paloma |
| Christoph Waltz | Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
| David Dencik | Dr. Valdo Obruchev |
| Rory Kinnear | Bill Tanner |
| Dali Benssalah | Primo |
| Lisa-Dorah Sonnet | Mathilde |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +40 Numbers refreshed: IMDb users 7.3 / 10 (496,045 votes) → 7.3 / 10 (496,101 votes).
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +520 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $906.8M; Domestic box office $160.9M; Opening weekend $55.2M; Profit / loss (est.) +$40.2M; Rotten Tomatoes 83%; CinemaScore A−; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 83% (425 reviews); Metacritic 68 / 100; PostTrak audience 83% positive; CinemaScore A−; IMDb users 7.3 / 10 (496,045 votes); movie.guru score 7.3.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 17 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.