Is this the end of the Bond Genre ?

Rating: 1/10 (26 March 2007)

Casino Royale ? 'Turkey Royale' more like ! Is this the end of the Bond Genre ? Pierce Brosnan was hoping to get another Bond picture, but 'they' didn't want him.
The film 'luvvies' had been scurrying around looking for a replacement but to no avail. Then one night at a night club, one of them took a fancy to one of the bouncers on the door. An ex-boxer who had fortunately done some acting; so 'they' offered him the part of the New Bond ! That is, of course, a fictitious assessment, but it might as well have been fact.
What on earth was the film about ? Flash bang wallop; the film starts with action after a song that even Britney Spears would turn down. Bond chases an African Olympian around a building site and learns the finer points of scaffolding and the building trade. Not a builder's bum in site ! Or maybe there was, a bloke called Bond ? As usual he kills a load of people.
Is this what is termed a plot-less film ? The scenes are tacked thoughtlessly together; there is no hint of character development, acting or story ? Daniel Craig really does look like a doorman at a local discotheque, with probably less personality.
To date, the Bond film I have liked the least was 'Moonraker'; this excuse for a big budget film was by far the worst.
This offering is neither Bond; nor spies, or an attempt at drama. Judi Dench must have wondered whether her lines were taken from the back of a Corn Flake packet ? As for Bond's script; you will get more humour from a constipated traffic warden.
I shall with the comment I began with:- "Is this the end of the Bond genre?"