History YMMV / NeverSayNeverAgain

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The prominence of Creator/{{Atari}} consoles (Yes, really...) in Largo's casino does its share in firmly cementing this as a film of the early Eighties when Atari reached the peak of its popularity. The film came out in 1983, the year of the infamous [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 Video Game Crash of 1983]] that nearly sank the entire industry; Atari was the leading developer of that market before the crash and would never regain its former dominance afterward.

** The Lady in Bahamas is played by Creator/ValerieLeon, who also played an hotel receptionist in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. In said film, she is flirty with Bond, but in an uncharacteristic move for him, Bond closes his room's door in her face. Here, Bond has no problem sleeping with her.

* EvilIsSexy: Fatima Blush is even nastier than Fiona Volpe, her original counterpart. Barbara Carrera is also a very sexy woman, the gusto with which she commits her evil deeds adding to her charm.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: The audience is supposed to view the new M as an ObstructiveBureaucrat after he chews out Bond for failing a training exercise and orders him to a health clinic. But consider the following: M is dealing with an ageing senior field agent who's gotten careless in his training, who drinks and smokes excessively, gambles frequently, is open to all sorts of [=STDs=] from all his womanizing, and has a diet rich in fatty and salty foods ("Too much red meat and white bread, and too many dry martinis"). No ReasonableAuthorityFigure would allow their field agents to carry on like this, even for James Bond.

* EvilIsSexy: Fatima Blush is even nastier than Fiona Volpe, her original counterpart. Barbara Carrera is also a very sexy woman.

** [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 A black man plays Felix Leiter]].
** Creator/RowanAtkinson starred as a bumbling [=MI6=] operative. He would go on to parody James Bond with ''Film/JohnnyEnglish''.

** The fishing woman in Bahamas is played by Creator/ValerieLeon, who also played an hotel receptionist in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. In said film, she is flirty with Bond, but in an uncharacteristic move for him, Bond closes his room's door in her face. Here, Bond has no such problem.

** This film was intended to have a follow-up called ''S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'', which never came to pass. Yet many years later, we would get a ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' film after all.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: The audience is supposed to view the new M as an ObstructiveBureaucrat after he chews out Bond for failing a training exercise and orders him to a health clinic. But consider the following: M is dealing with an ageing senior field agent who's gotten careless in his training, who drinks and smokes excessively, gambles frequently, is open to all sorts of [=STDs=] from all his womanizing, and has a diet rich in fatty and salty foods. No ReasonableAuthorityFigure would allow their field agents to carry on like this, even for James Bond.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: The viewer is supposed to see the new M as an ObstructiveBureaucrat after he chews out Bond for failing a training exercise and orders him to a health clinic. But consider the following: M is dealing with an ageing senior field agent who's gotten careless in his training, who drinks and smokes excessively, gambles frequently, is open to all sorts of [=STDs=] from all his womanizing, and has a diet rich in fatty and salty foods. No ReasonableAuthorityFigure would allow its field agents to carry on like this, even for James Bond.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Despite the film's overall quality being hotly contested, many people will readily agree that Creator/MaxVonSydow made for a fantastic Blofeld, and wish that he had been able to reprise the role in an official film -- which sadly was rendered impossible not only by legal issues, but by the fact that Blofeld (or rather, a LawyerFriendlyCameo of him) had been KilledOffForReal two years earlier in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''.

* ToughActToFollow:
** For the EON ''Bond'' series of course, with easy comparisons to make to this film including ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' (which shares the same source material), the widely-beloved ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' (the highest-grossing ''Bond'' film at the time), and ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' (which wasn't universally liked upon its release, but is close in tone to what ''Never Say Never Again'' was aiming for).
** For director Irvin Kershner, he had the bad fortune of trying to somehow create a respected follow-up to ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.

* JustHereForGodzilla: One of the film's draws is certainly the return of Creator/SeanConnery. Another one is to see the performance of Creator/BarbaraCarrera, who is having an absolute ball playinf Fatima Blush, and it shows.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Despite the film's overall quality being hotly contested, many people will readily agree that Max von Sydow made for a fantastic Blofeld, and wish that he had been able to reprise the role in an official film -- which sadly was rendered impossible not only by legal issues, but by the fact that Blofeld (or rather, a LawyerFriendlyCameo of him) had been KilledOffForReal two years earlier in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''.

** The fishing woman in Bahamas is played by Valerie Leon, who also played an hotel receptionist in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. In said film, she is flirty with Bond, but in an uncharacteristic move for him, Bond closes his room's door in her face. Here, Bond has no such problem.

* DirectorDisplacement: Though this is often cited as a Kevin [=McClory=] film, the actual producer was Jack Schwartzman with [=McClory=] receiving an honorary Executive Producer credit.

* LoveToHate: Klaus Maria Brandauer's performance as Largo was well-received, with Roger Ebert saying that he brought "poignancy and charm" to the character, and Gene Siskel praising him as a more human character than most Bond villains at the time were.

** One would seem to think that Fatima Blush is a prototype for Xenia Onatopp from ''Film/GoldenEye'' as an AxeCrazy FemmeFatale who's obsessed with having her way with Bond, despite being Fiona Volpe's {{Expy}}.