A new "ole blue eyes"

Rating: 7/10 (6 December 2006)

An authentic licensee-to-kill: I like this James Bond. I think Craig delivered a credible, creditable performance. The director went back to basics, cutting out the over-the-top spoofing that characterized the Roger Moore movies and instead building up a thoroughly believable, if not always entirely likable, protagonist. The feisty Vesper, whose spirited replies and quick ripostes made for a three-dimensional female role, has a complicated and layered personality which contrasts well with his thoroughly male one and is not submerged by him by any means.
Courage in the face of danger, loyalty to queen and country and disregard of pain and suffering might seem old-fashioned, but I approve of the return to those sterling values.