Good acting, poor writing... NOT A BOND FILM!

Rating: 3/10 (25 November 2006)

Bottom Line Up Front: This was the worst "Bond" film since "On Her Majestie's Secret Service" (which was not technically a Bond film anyway).
First off, Craig did do a great job performing as Bond; however, I was not satisfied by the movie itself. There was no Q involvement, no quirky one-liners, few gadgets (aside from the Ericson advertisement), a villain with no other objective than to make money to invest in international terrorism, and to top it off Bond got captured (leading to a scene with him getting justifiably hit in the jewels) were he had to be rescued by a loan shark; he could not even save himself. In addition, the movie kept on going and going. There were several times where it could have just ended and we could have called it a day, but it didn't, it just got more painful.
The lowest point in the movie were the poker scenes. In my opinion this is just the producer's way of taking advantage of the recent popularity of Texas hold 'em poker. I could have stayed home and watched ESPN 2 and TBS's Bond-A-Thon, saved $9 and have been much more satisfied.