Well, this is odd. As the Bond film franchise languishes in a post-Daniel Craig inertia – Barbara Broccoli stating last week that “it’ll take some time…it’s a whole reinvention – we are presented with…this. A half-fictional, half-reality TV game show that seems afraid to mention James Bond, in which a Bond villain-esque called The Controller, played by Brian “Fuck off” Cox, sends pairs of real people out to do a variety of Bond-challenges at Bond-esque locations around the world. It looks fantastic, Amazon Prime having clearly spent half of Fort Knox’s bullion reserves on giving it the full Bond-esque cinematic treatment, and, crucially, it has the actual Bond music, but it doesn’t quite work.
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:03 >> Million pound man, what wouldn't you do?
00:06 >> I put real people into a James Bond adventure and
00:11 placed ten questions around the world.
00:15 If they find them, answer them, they win a million pounds.
00:21 The only thing standing in their way is me.
00:25 >> Here we go again, brother.
00:26 [MUSIC]
00:29 >> Is that phone ringing?
00:31 >> Hello?
00:31 >> Hello.
00:32 >> Your next question is 2,000 miles away.
00:37 >> My God.
00:39 >> For 25,000 pounds, climate.
00:43 >> I can't believe this.
00:45 >> Jumped out of a chopper somewhere in the Swiss Alps.
00:49 I've never been to Milton Keynes Ski Rink.
00:52 >> Hello.
00:53 [MUSIC]
00:55 >> That ain't TK Maxx, is it?
00:57 >> This is impossible.
00:59 >> Why don't you go down there?
01:01 >> Are you sick?
01:04 >> The money is the prize.
01:08 And this adventure has been the greatest thing we've ever done in our life.
01:13 [MUSIC]
01:16 And I'm only just getting started.
01:18 [MUSIC]
01:26 [BLANK_AUDIO]