At last!

Rating: 10/10 (16 January 2007)

I read the Bond books when I was in my early teens. This film portrays the character I remember from those books. Sorry kids but Bond has left the realm of children's fiction this time and I sincerely hope they make more in the same vein. This franchise could seriously experience a new lease of life after this showing. This is not the stuff of the hackneyed Christmas day afternoon Bond film... For fear of upsetting many many people, in my opinion only of course, Daniel Craig IS the best (read that "most accurate" if you prefer)Bond to date. He is the image that I had in my head when I read Fleming's books. One thing I noticed that I feel is a good example of the difference between this and the rest of the Bond films is the brutality of the various fight scenes. That is not to say that they are unnecessarily violent but they certainly give the impression that the participants are really fighting for their lives and there is no rule book to hand. This is not sanitised or sugar coated, I guess the telling fact is that when you walk away from this film you don't leave thinking "I could be Bond".