Bonding with Bond

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2006)

If you want the same formula repeated over and over again your money would be better spent on a DVD of Die Another Day. Personally that movie almost made me puke. Having read the books, this is the closest a Bond movie has come to Fleming's writing. My biggest problem with earlier Bond movies is that it seemed to turn Fleming's stories into a schoolboy fantasy. I mean, let's be realistic here, the sets looked terribly "fake", and that is the keyword here. This Bond is "real", flesh and blood, he feels fear, he falls in love, he gets hurts (in more ways than one), he gets cut, he bleeds, and my God can he fight. The sophistication, the panache, the style is all there, but here these qualities are attached to a man who can also get poisoned, have heart failure, and worst of all, nearly lose his manhood. This is Bond the way Fleming wrote it. Like someone else said........Welcome back 007.......Welcome back!!!