Too long

Rating: 7/10 (29 March 2007)

At last bond grows up! It has taken a long time to move away from the schoolboy humour of Roger Moore & pierce brosnan (although pierce probably rescued the bond character after the dreadful Moore & boring dalton). At last a gritty bond much closer to the Fleming character, & not as 'prissy as Mr.Brosnan. Barbera broccoli & Michael Wilson have after many years of abusing bond & creating a poor comedy character finally done the right thing.
They have chucked out the dodgy gimmicks and sideshow characters and produced a film of quite a high calibre. Daniel Craig has done a brilliant job & considering all the criticism he originally received deserves enormous praise. Maybe the 'bourne' films deserve a word of credit, in that they highlighted how good a 'spy' film could be.
However the film would have benefited significantly by ditching the poisoning scene and being about 10 minutes shorter.