007 James Bond is dead! Long live 00Borat!

Rating: 7/10 (21 November 2006)

I watched the new Bond yesterday and as a real James Bond fan have to confess, that i still fell a little bit of post-traumatic stress disorder cause by this movie. With little expectation i began watching the movie and i'll try tom present my differentiated view of the movie which by the way is a remake of the original from 1967 starring Peter Sellers as Bond. First the positive things: The original is not a very good movie in Bond tradition and thus i have to say that the plot of the new movie is good. Furthermore the action stunts and settings e.g. cars, places are also very nice. The soundtrack deserves a special remark because it think that it was a traditional one which is good especially the introduction song. Now the negative things: First i think that Eva Green is not beautiful enough to have a main female role in a bond movie. Comparisons between her and e.g. Ursula Andress don't need any comment. Her performance doesn't give any deepness to the character of Vesper Lind who is a divided woman between two men. Second Daniel Craig is not bad as James Bond, but he's blond and doesn't look very clever neither is he very funny. He's more a masculine fighting special agent, but not THE JAMES BOND we all love. Third and now comes my biggest complain: How could they invent a scene in which James Bond is tortured by destroying his genitals??? Destroying his genitals means also destroying his identity as a MAN and as the Playboy we all know! Making up that the injuries were not that bad in the later development, is a very lame excuse for such an important case. As a future urologist i know what i'm talking about, trust me! Fourth it seemed not bad enough that has lost his balls, but they managed to humiliate him even more by presenting him as a weakling who falls in love with that ugly hag and deliberately admits that!!! Oh my god, Ian Fleming would turn around in his grave, if he saw that movie... Fifth the whole silly emancipation scenes e.g the first meeting in the train or the evening wardrobe show the whole essence of this movie by presenting a woman who is equal to Bond and even orders him. At that point i asked myself if an amazon and a lesbian wrote the script?! I understand that the world is changing and i'm not a chauvinist, but i think every gender should respect the other with it's typical traits and failings! James Bond is not reality, but he was the fantasy of many men all over the world! A real man who had plenty of women, sometimes even slapped some, drove lots of beautiful cars, always in danger, living a luxurious life and after all free and independent! Why are we men not allowed to have such fantasies??? Why do women do this to one of my heroes of youth??? What's coming next? Bond doing publicity for condoms? Or marring and having children? James Bons is dead, friends, and James Blond appeared. Fortunately there's a new hero out there: 00Borat I hope that they won't be able to destroy him like they did it with James Bond. High Five :)