Cinematic blasphemy.... No time to Die. There's no small amount of irony, in that title.
There really is not time, for James Bond, the pivotal, quintessential, iconic character, in the Bond 007 franchise, to die.
To do so, is, in essence, bring's Bond's decades long, larger than life, secret agent hi-jinks, to an end. That is, essentially what this rather by the number's Bond outing, has done.
No Time to Die is well acted, competently directed, with lashings of cinematic action. This is married up to a formulaic, rather unremarkable, by the numbers back story. Its sad to see this once lively, fun franchise, go out on such a beige note.
That said, lets be honest. The "cult of woke" hates James Bond. They have been slowly eating away at what his character stands for, over the last few films. It's unsurprising therefore, to see Bond finally sacrificed, on their humourless, alter.
I expect many other franchises 's, who don't tick their narrow little woke box of "inclusiveness", to also be thrown on the heretical fire, in the not too distant future.
In summary, I suspect this is the end of the franchise. Any attempts to revive it, at this point, will, I predict, ring hollow with long time fans, like myself.