Mediocre at best

Rating: 4/10 (4 December 2012)

The first ever Bond film that made me think: "why didn't they cut this boring scene?". I've read and understood all the intentions about rebooting the franchise to make it more in tune with the new century, but frankly it all failed miserably despite a good acting effort by DG.
Forgiving the neglected continuity of the series (the young Bond gets his 00 in 2006!) and the poor filming locations choice (for instance they pretend to set the casino in Montenegro while the architecture and the environment is clearly from far away, Switzerland and Czech Republic in reality), there are two good action scenes at the beginning and at the end of the movie and a long dull improbable plot in between, but most of all there's nothing resembling the Bond "cliche" we all loved and made this character so long-living.
The poker (hold'em... yawn... Bond should have refused to play such a game) scenes are too long and boring, the love story is lame and more annoying than Lazenby wedding, Bond himself isn't able to escape death without other's significant help (once by Vesper and once by who?).
There's almost no humor at all, no gadgets, no Q, no witty lines, at the end without the 007 tag on it this would be an average spy movie like dozens that could be seen on theaters nowadays.