Not the James Bond you know, not the Montenegro you know

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2007)

James Bond movies are not supposed to have a clever plot, only an entertaining one. So you go to the cinema with lowered expectations regarding plot credibility, from the word go. In a deviation from this norm, this new James Bond film went through three distinct stages for me. It started by portraying Bond as brutal enough to be more of a real intel operative, hit-man-like in fact (no, Jason Bourne-like in fact). But then it got back more to the usual pattern in the second stage, when fantastic locations, hot women and some cool jokes are more important than credibility. I could still enjoy the film at that point. However, towards the end the story took some turns that were stupid even by the special James Bond standards. I'm sorry, it's all just terribly bad after that. The ending would be more fitting in a B-movie. In addition to my dismay over all that, it was promised in the tidal wave of media hype that the plot would at some point arrive in Montenegro, which I longed to see again, after having spent beautiful times there. OK, so however stupid, the plot would at least move us to a place I wished to see. Then they showed me Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic instead, telling me it's Montenegro. I didn't like that. As a reward for some good action sequences, my vote would be 5. In punishment for the disrespect to Montenegrins, it's only 4.