Pouting mediocre Bond in tedious and often silly movie

Rating: 1/10 (31 January 2007)

What a waste of money, time and effort this tedious movie is. I quickly became bored. When Craig first appeared I assumed he was one of the heavies. He certainly won't do for Bond who is a charismatic fascinating character with great charm, presence and style. Craig has none of these. His Bond is uncouth, badmannered, petulant, immature, unimaginative and completely outclassed by a villain who's none too exciting himself (not the actor's fault, a poor script). Can anyone imagine this mediocrity being a Naval Commander? Craig's Bond isn't worth an 007. There's no way this arrogant twerp can become Sean Connery's Bond according to the timeline, though that's so confused heaven knows what we are supposed to think this movie is about. And those excessive muscles, oh dear, how ugly.
I've recently rewatched all the Bond movies including Never Say Never Again and all except the first deliberately comical CR are cracking good movies, yes even NSNA as it stars Connery, enough said. This 2nd CR is the first total flop. As for CR2007 showing us the "authentic Fleming Bond", no. Timothy Dalton did it and splendidly. We don't need it done again and badly as well.
As for the music - what music? was there any? I recall some cacophonous background din every now, maybe that was meant to be music. The old theme was played at the end. That's about it. Poor titles too.
The whole Bond franchise needs sorting out and getting back on track. No more of that excessive product placement either especially as the products were so mundane. Cellphone Bond would be a better title for this movie. Instead, some decent imaginative gadgets please. Do y8ou realise a university in the US has produced a "cloak of invisibility" - check it out. Brosnan's invisible car isn't quite so impossible as at the time it seemed.
e can do without senseless shoot-em-ups. Let's at least understand why people galore are getting killed when Bond goes berserk with a machine gun - and for far far too long. Filling out the time, scriptwriters couldn't come up with anything better?
I shan't buy the DVD. The movie isn't good enough and I couldn't bear to watch Craig murdering Bond again, so I won't be seeing any more Bond films until we're rid of Craig.
And finally, some of the newspaper reports about Craig are hardly flattering. Has fame gone to this guy's head?