Daniel Craig as Bond?

Rating: 2/10 (8 February 2009)

I was very opposed to the idea of Craig as the new James Bond and as a result this was the first Bond I have NOT seen in the theaters in nearly 10 yrs. Craig lacks all that we've come to expect from the character of Bond. He lacks the charisma and charm that the Bond character invented with Sean Connery and continued with Moore and Brosnan. This film was more of an attempt to merge the Bond franchise with the popular action films of today. The Bourne series for the most part. A far cry from the enjoyable and light-hearted action style I've come to expect from the James Bond series.
I wish I could recommend this film and Quantum of Solace (for that matter) as a welcome addition to the rest of the Bond films of the past age, but I cannot. The result of Daniel Craig as Bond is likely (in time) to result as the second fall in the series possibly more traumatic than Dalton's fall in the late 80's.