BOND IS BACK!!! some very minor spoilers!!!

Rating: 10/10 (20 November 2006)

What more can I say, Bond IS back. I was very worried at first that Daniel Craig couldn't do it, but wow, what a great performance and outstanding movie. I honestly haven't seen a movie this good for a long time and I see a lot of movies. To start off here, Craig took over for Brosnan and made Brosnan obsolete. Pierce could only do it for GoldenEye, but failed with poor plots, even poorer acting and no believable action. Craig comes in as an emotional (yes, emotional) and trigger-happy Bond (well of course) but goes out as a gritty, dark James Bond that Ian Flemming originally depicted in his novels. The acting from each and every actor and actress was amazing. Craig's performance was outstanding, he has the perfect blend of British wit and humor, and a damn good shot and brawler(let alone physically fit, as mentioned by my girlfriend, exact words: "wow he's so hot!"). No over the top action here either. MINOR SPOILER!!! the opening sequence after the credits done excellent and put to a great song by Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and Audioslave has Bond chasing a bomb maker who can run and jump like a superhero, however, after reading up on him, he actually invented the art of free falling, basically moving the way he does in the movie, so that had me take my rating from a 9/10 to a perfect 10. No cheesy gadgets either, state of the art technology but nothing like the other Bond's that seem to always work out so conveniently for him, SPOILER!!! after almost dying from being poisoned by the main bad guy (excellently acted bad guy too!) he has an emergency kit in his Aston Martin and it even fails on him. Won't go any further. All together, Daniel Craig has done what Sean Connery first did for the Bonds, only now we see a dark and ruthless James Bond, but hey, he still gets the girls and has a great sense of humor. "We have to talk Mr. White, ***SHOOT*** the name is Bond, James Bond." haven't heard it that good for quite some time! 10/10, 4 stars across the board this is the best Bond made in years and I look forward to #22 and hopefully many more to come, as long as Craig is Bond and the Vodka Martini is shaken not stirred, The franchise can come alive once again!!!