A Major Bummer

Rating: 4/10 (17 November 2006)

So the movie begins to what I believed to be quite exciting and action packed. The first few scenes are really spectacular! However, the biggest problem with this movie, is that is pretty much all the action. For about half the film, you watch Bond play poker. Whoop-dee-doo. Eventually, there are scenes where he something occurs and he does some sweet action moves, but it's pretty much watching a group of rich men (and one old Chinese woman) play poker.
Like every Bond movie, this one has a car chase; however, this chase lasts about 15 seconds and it takes place in the country. Oh, how intense. Another missing part of this movie was Bond's gadgets supplied by Q. Yes I know this is meant to be the first one, so maybe he has no Q, but come on, at least put some cool gizmos. Guns and hands get old, fast.
So in conclusion, this so called "Bond" movie really strides away from the original concept with extreme action throughout the film, crazy gadgets, and Bond as a suave man-whore. The film was nonetheless interesting at parts; sort of dragged on within an hour into it with all the poker. And what you believe is the end never ceases, resulting in an overly dragged out ending having the movie take just way too much time.