After being delayed for more than a year and a half due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel Craig's No Time to Die will finally open in the UK on Thursday with most other counties following Oct. 8. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, No Time to Die will be the 25th Bond film and Daniel Craig's fifth turn as 007. It's an "epic, explosive and emotional swan song," says Richard Trenholm in CNET's No Time to Die review, "that throws everything it has against the wall for a genuinely unique entry in the series."
And after falling out of fashion in Craig's earlier films, No Time to Die has time for a few high-tech accessories. Besides exotic locales and evil villains, gadgets (both useful and not so useful) are a hallmark of a 007 film. Here are our favorite gadgets and technology from the James Bond movies, used either by Bond or by his enemies, as chosen by CNET writers, editors and producers.
What are your favorites? Let us know in the comments.
From Russia With Love (1963): Rosa Klebb's dagger shoe
It's an oldie but a goodie: It's a simple blade in the shoe. But the first time I saw it when I was a kid, I thought, "Wow, that's crazy!" And of course, the blade has to have a poisoned tip.
-- Connie Guglielmo, editor in chief
Goldfinger (1964): Wheel hub tire slasher
Bond's cars always came with a gallery of weapons to destroy henchman-driven cars. My favorite were the tire-slashing spikes that would spin out of the wheel hubs on the Aston Martin DB5 Bond drove in Goldfinger. Twenty-three years later in The Living Daylights, a laser in the wheel hub of Bond's Aston Martin V8 would replace the spikes.
-- Stephen Beacham, video podcast producer
Thunderball (1965): Rebreather
This thing makes no sense, BUT Bond was able to use it in lieu of using an oxygen tank. It also resurfaced in Die Another Day, and inexplicably again in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
-- Mitchell Chang, senior video producer
Scuba gear
The jetpack gets all the attention, but what really wowed me watching Thunderball as a kid was all the underwater scenes. Total otherworldly adventure stuff. Besides the basic scuba gear, which was cool enough, there were the motorized sleds (some to ride behind, some to ride in) and 핑카지노 the compressed-gas propellant on Bond's tanks that zoomed him through the water like, well, a jetpack.
The bad guys even landed an Avro Vulcan aircraft on the water and settled it on the ocean floor. Oh, and the trap door in the hull of Largo's Disco Volante yacht allowed divers to get in and out of the boat. Bond also had that pocket-sized mini rebreather with four minutes of air for emergencies, like escaping from the sharks in Largo's pool. It was all such good stuff, 핑카지노추천 we saw it again two decades later in the remake, Never Say Never Again.
-- Jon Skillings, managing editor