Tedious, predictable and boring

Rating: 4/10 (21 November 2006)

Okay, I'm in the minority here, but I genuinely disliked this film. It lost me after an opening overwrought overdone overlong chase scene and IMHO the film went downhill after that. There's no real plot other than Bond gambles against some bad guys and wins (the conflict there was done much better in the book 50 years ago) and I don't buy Daniel Craig as Bond. He'd be better as a villain. He lacks the charm of Brosnan-Moore-Connery & because of that the wry humor of traditional Bond films is missing. Missing also are the babes. The current batch in this film just didn't do it for me (almost by their complete absence) and could we please have a memorable villain again, like Dr. No, or Goldfinger or Oddjob. Okay, okay, those are dated references, but you know what? I went to see Blood Diamond at a WGA Screening in Beverly Hills the day before Casino Royale and THAT was a better Bond film than this is and frankly Leo D'Cap would be a better Bond. I'll make anyone an early bet that while this film will do okay it will ultimate disappoint the studio. Something's seriously amiss here. Well, as WC Fields famously once said, "Just one man's opinion."