Given this has been billed as Craig’s final turn as the man in the perfect-fit tux, his 007 era has taken a surprisingly long time to die.
Covid caused what feels like the most strung-out preamble before a film gets a red-carpet premiere. Its title track was number one as long as February 2020, back when Billie Eilish was still a moody teenager with a jet black mullet and neon green-dyed roots, rather than the sophisti-platinum blonde of today.Certainly, the interminable stop-start build-up to the film’s release – finally in cinemas from Friday – is in stark contrast to the pace the spy is forced to maintain on screen, in spite of his being in his sixth decade: all that juvenile car-chasing and bed-hopping.
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