Worst Bond since "In her Majesty's Secret Service"

Rating: 2/10 (21 November 2006)

This might qualify as an OK action movie, and even if you liked "The Notebook", you might find passages that you like in this movie. However if you expect the movie to give you the fulfillment that the last Bond movies did, you will be disappointed.
The team behind this movie, tried so hard to renew the franchise, that they lost some of the most valuable trademarks in doing so.
First, the music: For some reason the composer is thinking that the classic John Barry score has worn out. Wrong! The James Bond theme is an integrated part of any James Bond movie, and if the three notes that defines Bond is gone, so is the feeling of Bond himself. The composer chose to wait till 2 hours and 20 minutes into the film before giving us the score, and by that time the movie was (finally) over, so it didn't do much good. Also the Title song to the opening credits is one of the dullest songs in the history of Bond.
SERIOUS SPOILERS AHEAD...
Secondly, Bond had to fall in love again. Like "In Her Majesty's Secret Service" Bond falls in love. This time around he doesn't get married, but like in "Majesty" the girl gets killed. It wasn't a good storyline last time, and it isn't this time. But it does take up way too much time in the movie - and for those who enjoyed this part, I can highly recommend "The Notebook", but this is a Bond movie and is supposed to be something else.
Finally the villain is too weak. This time around he is a simple thief who lost a bet - not a visionary who wants to take over the world. Granted, they do put in a comment about him being responsible for 9/11, but this is just too cheap. We want to see him - almost - accomplishing his crazy plan - launching his rockets from a deserted island or from an ice palace.
They try to make Bond into Bourne - but Bond is not Bourne, and he doesn't become Bourne because they leave out the trademarks of a Bond movie.