James Bourne

Rating: 5/10 (26 July 2010)

The formula for Bond movies has been abandoned. James Bond is now just another action hero who can run, jump, and beat up people. Gone is the sophisticated charm and womanizing of the old Bond. Gone is the confident, arrogant swagger you liked so much. It seems Daniel Craig is just another Timothy Dalton, only athletic. Dalton lacked the sophistication and confidence of Bond. Connery had it.Lazenby had it. Moore had it, and Brosnan had it. Craig and Dalton were both poor choices to play Bond. This movie is not the worst Bond film. Never Say Never Again holds that distinction. Dalton's two films were not so great, but he didn't write them. A few of Moore's films were real stinkers. At least this one tried for more realism. The torture scene was straight out of the 1953 novel by Ian Flemming. But there were no gadgets, except for a heart defibulator - and what that was doing in an Aston Martin, I'll never know. Could you imagine Q giving Sean Connery a heart defibulator?? Craig plays Bond with no personality - too businesslike; no fun. Too blah. And that Zoolander look...