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Mark Dillon

Mark Dillon

Toronto-based award-winning journalist, editor, and author of "Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys"; co-host of Surf's Up: A Beach Boys Podcast Safari and longtime American Cinematographer contributor.

Sep 5, 2026

18:21
the Bond movies for the most part I feel tend to have a kind of timeless quality they mostly avoid except for little jokes avoid topical references it's interesting how they genuinely try to do that do you think there is enough action in this film because oddly enough the use of action is rather skewed it seems to me most of it appears in the third act and there's just a few fights really isn't there in the first two thirds of the film
18:51
I think if you added up how many minutes of action there are, it's probably at least on par with other Bond movies.
18:57
It's just that this movie is two hours and 20 minutes long, and there's a lot of other stuff going on.
19:01
So as you say, it might feel diluted.
19:03
But some people think there's too much action.
19:06
There are some great set pieces in this movie.
19:09
And one thing that no one ever seems to point out that I think is really cool about the visual language of this movie.

20 MINS LATER

39:24
So straight up, how do you think he equips himself in the role?

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