Unnecessary action; finally, some suffering

Rating: 5/10 (27 January 2007)

Frankly, I did not understand what the action scenes at the beginning of the movies are for. Probably to appease the "old" James Bond fans who come for exactly that kind of action (like the bunch of twelve year olds in the front row of my theatre). I liked the two Bond girls (Caterina Murino from Sardinia and Eva Green from Paris) very much. Both of the dark type - tho only blonde in the film works for the other side, with quite some venom... Green, especially, has some very fine anti-macho lines. I wish she could stay with Bond in the end. A very positive development in the long Bond series: in the second half of the film, the torturing and the suffering of the hero is finally depicted, quite drastically. Not like the Bonds of the sixties where he always escapes the wildest chases without so much as a scratch. This time, he remains with scars both physical and emotional: Bravo!