What a Disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (20 April 2007)

What is it that you love about the Bond films? The music? The gadgets? The fascinating women? The utter charm and savoir-faire of Mr. Bond? The exotic locales? The "eccentric" cast of characters? Well, you better go see another movie to get these because you won't find them in this film.
The gadgets in this film seem to revolve around resuscitation, which, all things considered, was a good choice.
As far as fascinating women all I can say is Thank God for Judi Dench. She is hands down the most fascinating woman in this film. Eva Green, the Bond Girl in the film, is easy enough on the eyes, but there is nothing special about her. She lacks grace and seems to be putting inordinate effort in making sure her voice sounds "low", but she only succeeds in sounding funny. The good news is that at least she wasn't portraying a woman trying to behave like a man.
Now for the character of James Bond....in this rendition he is rude, crude, completely devoid of charm and acts as if he has no experience in the worldly, sophisticated ways of the world (and doesn't care if he does). We are used to a James Bond that is the epitome of "cool under fire", but this one is a cry baby. Another words, he is no different than so many of the clueless young men that lack manners in this world that you can run into on any given day. Why should I pay good money to see more of this?
The locales in this movie are O.K. Venice certainly is a beautiful place, but hardly what I would call "exotic" or unseen by the vast majority of people that will see this film. Ditto for The Bahamas. Boring. The Czech Republic was an interesting choice and certainly different so I will thank them for that.
As far as memory serves me, there was really only one "eccentric" in this film. No one else comes to mind, which should tell you something about the cast of characters for this movie.
Save your money and watch this film when it shows up on T.V.