Big, Bad, Beefy Bond

Rating: 9/10 (24 November 2006)

Loved this film. Brilliant opener with tense, believable (by modern standards) action sequences. Nice touch when Bond simply runs and smashes through the plaster wall rather than taking the nimble approach. Authentic feel to the fights right down to the cuts and scars on his knuckles when he rejoins the card game. I won't give anything away but go see this film. It's got all the right moves, action, drama, humour and most important for the future of the franchise, character development. Bond is shown as being very human and not just some slick quipping clothes horse (who can forget the execrable scene when Brosnan used the canopy of the jet/car thing and the parachute to sky/surf the tidal wave! Awful, awful, awful).