It wasn't completely awful, but it stank

Rating: 6/10 (17 December 2006)

I can't believe how many positive reviews came for this movie. Its only clear qualities are that the film is more on the realist side, rather than weird gadget and eccentric villains, and that they reverted to the good old Aston Martin... but that's it. Craig is a good Bond, but he has nothing from the appeal of Sean Connery or the humour of Roger Moore. But even so, I have nothing against the man. The movie, though, sucked badly! The dialogues are inept, the plot is jerky and ambiguous and the adrenaline inducing effects and action scenes are not that good.
All I can say is that we find ourselves in a trend of prequels, and as a prequel, this wasn't particularly good. Taking into account the disastrous recent movies from the Bond series, though, it is a definite improvement.