I am sorry, I must have been in the wrong theater...

Rating: 1/10 (26 November 2006)

When I heard all the comments from the media about the movie I chose to ignore it and give the movie a chance, as well as the actor. I was very disappointed, mostly because of the fact that the only thing that had to do with the other James Bond movies was the music at the end. Maybe James Bond had to be changed to a brute killing machine who has a conscience, to a not so smart and clever street thug with no style and no sense of humor. James Bond has alway been something of a Casanova, a macho with style, manners and sex appeal. James Bond had the best tools that her Majesty's Inntelligence could think of, and they were fun to be watched in action. James Bond could wipe out a whole gangster syndicate in a week and always appear clean and tidy at every cocktail party during this week.
Whatever this movie was, and it was not such a bad action movie, maybe the typical no brain pure action movie a la Terminator (I watched 'em all and liked 'em) it just wasn't a Bond. Every James Bond movies until now was extremely unrealistic, one guy who knows it all, saves the world singlehanded and sleeps with the most beautiful women and at the end always says something funny. One of the few places in the world where women don't rule the universe. Mrs. Brocoli, I am sorry that James Bond was primarily done for men, so why did you have to ruin a franchise with such a simple formula: Beautiful women+cool cars+cool gadgets+style+humor
Every James Bond movie in the past did one thing this movies didn't, it didn't take itself too serious, something this movies lacked so much... Sorry James Bond, but I fear you have retired forever.