Not bad, but this isn't Bond any more...

Rating: 6/10 (2 May 2007)

Well, they have decided to 'modernize' Bond, to adapt the series to the new century..., and everybody seems to love it! Unfortunately for me, I don't.
They have made the Bond character into something human, real, almost your regular every day guy. And (how very politically correct, in pace with the times) he is vulnerable, he has feelings, he falls in love and even resigns from MI-5...! (M's reactions to this - also very politically correct - is literally a motherly: 'Don't worry about it, we can talk about this later'... Give me a break! James Bond should not be a 'regular' human being, James Bond is a mythological animal, and it would have been so much better if they had kept it that way. At least for me. Even the girls are not what they used to be. Now they are all over 30, are called 'women' and have PhD's instead of bikinis! Once again, how very politically correct... What have we come to as a society if even James Bond has to be politically correct? Think about it. Isn't it sad?
Not that this is a bad movie, because it isn't (even though it also has many shortcomings - for example, Montenegro looks more like MonteCarlo, while the reality in that young country couldn't be more different, at least for now), it's just that it isn't a Bond movie any more. A scene that illustrates this best is one in which at a certain point, when asked the proverbial question 'shaken or stirred?' Daniel Craig answers literally "Do I look as though I give a damn?". Call me a nostalgic, but no, this definitely isn't Bond any more.