Not your quintessential Bond movie!

Rating: 6/10 (19 January 2007)

The first Bond book has been manifested on-screen in this movie. For most-this Bond is a "NEW" Bond. The movie lacks most of the signature characteristics of a quintessential bond movie. As far as my memory goes, Bond movies stand for THREE things - Girls, Gadgets and Globe-trotting! The new bond lacks the suave, smooth, Casanova ways of this legendary character with the my-suit-stays-perfect-even-when-I'm-underwater attitude. This bond is all about brawn, all about hitting and punching. But isn't that what most protagonists are doing. Bond is supposed to be a man - not another kid on the block. And to think of a Bond with a clean chest! - Remember Sean Connery's lines "Bird always make nest in hairy chest"!! And the fact that he has an interest in just ONE woman in this movie is disappointing -- for to most men, he is the ultimate man - a man so smooth that he can have any woman-ANY woman!
The approach of a more "humane" bond is not going to work out in in the long run. There're a lot of "humane" characters out there-just let Bond be what he is - Bond!!!