Great - now get better!

Rating: 9/10 (17 November 2006)

What an excellent movie - intelligent, witty script, a steely, subtly emotional performance by Daniel Craig who is perfect for Bond, and a main female character who is for once an important part of the story, and not as is so often the case just dumb eye-candy supplied as a foil for Bond's wit and 'love interest'.
Improvements? For starters, ditch the 12A certificate. The bean-counter requirement to pander to young kids does the movie's storyline and editing no favours - punches often don't connect, fight scenes are edited chaotically to minimise the impact of violence, and Bond never, ever swears. This is the 21st century folks, get with the program.
Secondly, can anything be done to minimise the all too tedious product placement?
Hats off to the director, who miraculously managed to get a torture scene (dare I say it, a witty one) in the film, and did as subtle a job as could be expected with the product placement requirements which were no doubt rammed down his throat by the suits.
Keep up this level of script and film making and we can be assured of more entertaining years of the Bond franchise. But make it at least a 15 movie next time......