Very good-00

Rating: 9/10 (30 November 2006)

I went to see the movie on its release day (22nd November) at the Grand Rex theater on Paris, and I didn't regret it. Yep, I was quite surprised when I didn't see, at first, the famous... I can't find the word... When Bond walks in, on the target of a killer, does a little turn and shoots him... But then, it arrived just a few minutes later and wow ! What are the differences ? Less gadgets, OK, but you don't need a galore of it. A blond Bond ? Whatever. No Moneypenny ? Maybe in the next one. More violence ? Yeah, that's right, but after all, we're speaking about a spy, licensed to kill, not about the nanny in "The sound of music". No graphic violence in a action movie would be a mistake. So, good storyline (Ian Fleming's stories are always the best), pretty girls (Caterina makes me feel like a whistling wolf and I think that Eva Green, whose beauty is more delicate, is absolutely delicious, but maybe it's just chauvinistic as she's French like me), a bad guy quite interesting (such a frightening face : Le Chiffre seems as human as Michael Myers' mask) and a very good James Bond : tough, quite rude, who hurts himself a lot... More human, actually. All in all, it's not the best Bond movie (my personal choice : a tie between Goldfinger and Thunderball), but it's the best since Sean Connery. Et voilà.