Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Sam Mendes takes control of James Bond number 23.
In 2008, Marc Forster directed one of the most unloved James Bond saga: Quantum of Solace. Faced with this failure, the director of World War Z let Sam Mendes (1917, American Beauty, Rebellion, etc.) take care of the direction of agent 007 No. 23.
This is how Skyfall, Daniel Craig's third Bond, was released in 2012. We find the most famous spy facing his new mission: saving MI6, and more particularly M (Judi Dench), whose authority is called into question by Mallory (Ralph Fiennes), the new president of the ISC, the committee responsible for intelligence and security.
As MI6 faces an unprecedented dual threat, both internal and external, James Bond must operate in the shadows. With the help of his colleague and assistant to M, Eve (Naomi Harris), he sets out on the trail of Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem), whose secret and deadly objective he must identify at all costs.
Huge international success
With a rating of 4.2 out of 5 awarded by AlloCiné internet users and 4 out of 5 by the press, the 23rd James Bond is considered the best film in the saga! That's not all, it's also the best at the box office, with $1.1 billion in revenue worldwide.
It must be said that Heavy rain has it all: a five-star cast composed, among others, of Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem, Naomi Harrisor Bérénice Marlohe, an intoxicating soundtrack with Adele's cult hit, today considered a classic James Bond song, a thrilling plot, and grandiose settings.
In addition to being one of the highest rated James Bonds, Heavy rain received two Oscars, two BAFTAs and was nominated twelve times at festivals. Faced with this undisputed success, Sam Mendes decided to continue its momentum by producing, three years later, Spectre.
This twenty-fourth and penultimate James Bond is notably worn by Léa Seydoux, Monica Bellucci and Christoph Waltz, while the soundtrack, also very famous, is by Sam Smith.
And the least we can say is that it also had great success at the box office, with 4.9 million seats sold in France, for a total of 880 million dollars in revenue at the internationally, making it the second biggest success of the saga. No doubt, Sam Mendes understood everything about James Bond!
Tonight on France 3 at 9:05 p.m.
