Fake Bond in Cinema Shock!

Rating: 3/10 (19 December 2006)

As an avid James Bond film viewer, I always look forward to a new Bond to see what a different face will bring to the role. This time how ever I watched a movie that had all of the traditional elements stripped out with nothing put in their place. Okay, maybe I exaggerate a little, there was the occasional wry comment from Daniel Craig, but my wife and I left the cinema very disappointed.
I think my main problem was that I couldn't warm to Craig's character. Bond was portrayed as mean, nasty and small. By the torture scene I was so indifferent to the person on the screen that I really didn't care about the long term effects it might have on his love-life. Then again, I didn't really empathise with Eva Green's character either who seemed to switch allegiances on a whim, then die for her man.
As to the film being an attempt to outdo the Bourne films, they're going to have to try a lot harder than this. In the Bourne films I was rooting for Jason from the first few frames, but in this overlong travesty of James Bond I was left unimpressed and bored for much of the 144 minute running time.
If James Bond isn't special then he isn't Bond.