Quite Good

Rating: 7/10 (4 December 2006)

A pleasure to finally see a Bond film without the requisite invisible cars, deathray satellites, or wrist-mounted poison gas dispensers that only work if you hum the first 3 bars of "God Save the Queen" or similar rediculousness.
Also -- good to see a Bond film where the world isn't in immediate jeopardy from nation conflict, nuclear conflict, or something firing a laser from outer space, as was standard plot from so many past films of the franchise.
This is the Bond film they *should* have made in 1987 -- gritty, full of blood, a decent story and no superfluous BS that made License To Kill and Die Another Day so unwatchable. (Wayne Newton? C'mon...)
Kudosto Purvis, Haggis and others on a tight screenplay that doesn't rely on past Bond-isms and gets right to the point. I can only hope that they'll stick to this formula moving forward. Good to see Bond full of blood, beaten up, and angry!