No No Seven

Rating: Null/10 (2 July 2007)

The Bond franchise seems have taken a curious decision here, going back to the roots of the Bond legend and therefore giving us a Bond movie that isn't really a Bond movie at all, but rather a pre-Bond movie. Daniel Craig's Bond is something of an arrogant hothead, more smug than suave, who finds himself in the kind of predicaments that Connery et al never would. I can't imagine Sean having his goolies whacked while strapped naked to a seatless chair somehow. Definitely a tougher, more cynical Bond, the fact that he isn't the finished article shouldn't be held against Craig, who does reasonably well (although using an actor with the rugged features of Craig in a story going back to roots of a character previously portrayed by the suave likes of Connery, Moore and Brosnan seems a bizarre casting choice and just made it that more difficult to believe I was watching a Bond flick).
The ending possibly bodes well for future instalments (the introduction of the Bond theme only after Craig has uttered Bond's immortal intro line was one of the few high points). Let's hope so - because all through this all I could think about was how much I missed the old Bonds.