This review of “No Time to Die” was first published after the film’s Sept. 28 premiere in London.
They cheered the MGM lion, and they cheered the pre-credit sequence, and the Billie Eilish theme song and every bike stunt and vertiginous leap. The black-tie, red carpet crowd at the desperately-anticipated world premiere of “No Time to Die,” the 25th Bond film, in London’s Royal Albert Hall could not have been more excited.
Let into a slice of Bond world glamour and, for many, back in a big cinema and big gathering for the first time in many months, they even roared at the end of the National Anthem, played in the presence of Prince Charles and his son and daughter-in-law.