The Man Without the Golden Pun

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2006)

I thought Craig was a superb Bond, and I really enjoyed the movie ... but I missed the lack of puns (I heard only one) and gadgets.
I wrote a blog at blog.myspace.com/twiceuponarhyme about the loss of puns (you can see by the title that I like words...) and also put up a 6-minute podcast about this at lightonlightthrough.com
There was a Cole Porteresque quality of the Bonds which I miss in this one. Connery saying Lotte Lenya got her kicks, Moore talking about keeping the old British end up as he made love to the heroine under the closing credits, that sort of thing.
As for the gadgets, they sometimes did get a little hokey, and the no-tech chase scene on foot in Casino Royale was excellent. But some of the gadgets were cool. And coolest of all was Q - both actors were excellent in prior movies - and I missed him, too.
Still, this movie did a lot to explain how Bond became what he was, and I enjoyed it a lot despite its omissions.