Bond has returned... heck, this is what Ian Fleming wrote him to be!

Rating: 9/10 (18 November 2006)

OK... I've been a Bond fan all of my life and I've watched every movie so many times I can't even remember and I've long since given up hope that any of the movies will come close to the characterization of what Ian Fleming wrote... until now!
I'll leave the particulars of the story to others, I'll just tell you that someone in Bondville woke up and decided to write a story that Ian Fleming would be proud to own! Bond is the way he is in all of the books! No smirkiness, no glib comebacks, no pithy remarks... no trace of the silliness that marked the Roger Moore years; he was an accurate interpretation of the books that Fleming wrote!
Daniel Craig plays him as such and he doesn't miss the mark at all! If you are a true Bond fan, not just a fan of the movies but a fan of the books, then you'll enjoy this film! He's a bit undisciplined and crass and you wonder how many more mistakes he's going to make before he gets the bad guy!
I liked this movie very much, but I'm giving it a 9 because of the running time. They could have shaved off 20 minutes and would have still had a great movie! That's its only fault in my opinion... too much movie! I can't wait to see the next installment to see how Craig's Bond will further morph into the suave, debonair spy we've all come to know and love!