Danny Boy gets the gig.

Rating: 8/10 (24 December 2006)

Gotta give credit where it's due. This movie hits all the buttons you want from a Bond flick. Great opening chase scene, great closing blow-it-all-to-smithereens scene, great looking Bond girls and snappy cinematography. And the newest Bond, Daniel Craig, proudly carries on the tradition without slipping into the Austin Powers self-parody trap lurking around every corner.
Have to love the opening. After using every imaginable mode of transportation from speedboats to hotsh*t race cars to jets to skis for the chase scenes in the previous Bond flicks, I would have figured they'd run out of options and just re-cycle. So, instead, the producers hit on the ONE mode of transportation that hadn't yet been used... Running. Lord help me. Running. On foot. And it WORKS!!! All I can say to Marty Campbell is "You had me at "hello".
Great twist on the "Shaken, not stirred" line, too. Cute retro move on the opening title credits. The theme song ain't really up to snuff, but that's my only real complaint here.
All in all, not quite "Goldfinger", but not bad. Thought that a blonde Bond would create a rift in the cosmos and suck the universe into a some black hole in the space-time continuum. Thought I'd come out of the movie screaming "I knew Sean Connery. Sean Connery was a friend of mine. And you, my friend, are no Sean Connery". But Daniel Craig pulls it off. Go figure. I stand corrected. And more important...I sit entertained.