Nominated for Best Original Song, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound 
James Bond (Daniel Craig) is retired and living happily with Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) but what does he really know about her? Their secrets come between them and Bond decides to go his own way. Still retired but no longer happy, he is roped into One Last Job as a favor for Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) and runs into the new 007, Nomi (Latasha Lynch), on the same mission. Bond thinks his old nemesis Blofeld (Cristoph Waltz) is pulling strings from prison but the truth is much worse. Bond's own government has developed a weapon capable of targeting specific DNA and someone is after it, and for once, it's not Bond's past coming back to haunt him. It's Madeleine's.
Daniel Craig is over playing Bond and it's clear in how exhausted the character is. It's not a bad send-off but of course it doesn't feel like the end. Not with a billion-dollar franchise that still has people breathlessly speculating about who could be next to fill his shoes. I liked Craig as Bond. He brought a real brawler sense to what had become kind of a dandified character. The puns I could do without but that's canon so I just have to suffer. It'll be interesting to see what the next Bond will be like.
I don't give it high chances at the statuettes but it's an honor just to be nominated, right? The song is pretty good but felt disconnected from the film. Like it is its own separate thing now. Rami Malek is not the worst villain in the franchise by a long shot but I don't know how well he's going to be remembered. This has been an issue with the last three films in the series. Bond's internal struggles with guilt, grief, and rebellion against the very authority figures he answers to are much more interesting than another megalomaniac with an overly complicated plan for taking over the world.
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