Negative reviewers, do I look like I give a damn?

Rating: 9/10 (10 November 2012)

In one word, this project is brave. And I don't mean the brave but ineffective kind, but the one which is brave and impressive! Daniel Craig in the role of a just-been-given-a-00-status James Bond makes the character a part of his own skin. After Pierce Brosnan, accepting this new Bond was not easy. Yet the audience is bound to like maybe, even, adore this Bond. The innate flaws in a human are still there. We have a Bond who is ready to believe in someone. He is not as hardened as you might expect. Nevertheless, there are flashes of brilliance and ruthlessness in some of his decisions. Altogether, the picture is quite believable and satiating. The starting point of the movie does tend to drag with very little to impress. The starting score tends to balance this out. The Chris Cornell theme and the cards-montage is superb. Then we get to business right away. Parkour has long been a very interesting theme to me and here we are treated to some heavy dose of the same. Daniel Craig, in my opinion, is the best Bond when it comes to fighting sequences. The manner in which he gives chase atop a building is legendary. The plot in the movie is well-defined and lends credence to the importance of 007's first mission. There is no dearth of witty one-liners, too! One minor glitch can be found by asking the question as to why such an elaborate ruse was needed to make Bond play cards against Le Chiffre, who is a financier for terrorists and who shorts stocks in anticipation of (rather, by causing) terrorist activities to manipulate stocks of companies. They could have just seized him, in my opinion. Nevertheless the entire game is very entertaining and acting is superb. Eva Green does tend to scare with her permanent wide smile. She is pretty, though, in some of her scenes without make-up. Daniel Craig is top-class. The other Bond girl is quite hot but sadly, doesn't get much screen-time with clothes or without! A lesson may be learnt for filmmakers- don't try to emulate an earlier classic. An honestly made movie is ca classic in its own right!