As anyone said they were "stirred AND shaken" yet?

Rating: 7/10 (11 March 2020)

I was never interested in Bond as a kid but when my parents took 13 year old me to this picture I can't say I wasn't impressed.
This new serious Bond was really quite something: yes there were tuxedoes and gadgets galore but it captured something a lot more visceral, more masculine, more vulnerable.
Danial Craig's new interpretation suggests an individual worn down by a post-imperialist government into a killing machine that still has some humanity left deep down and struggling (futilely) to get out.
A lot of this movie is that card game and it does stretch the patience, as chic as the whole thing is. Certainly it overstays its welcome with a convoluted plot but that's not why we came anyway. Either way the set pieces are stunning, the script can be taken seriously and it will forever be on emblem to the harder Bond before we all got sick of Craig's face.