It makes me sad to see James Bond become such a creep

Rating: 2/10 (25 December 2008)

What I think made James Bond so special was that there James Bond exuded a lot of class. It was Sean Connery who set the initial tone for what James Bond would represent for the next 40 years, and it is this character that I think made 007 special. This is now lost with Daniel Craig, who does not look or act the part. Basically he plays someone who is inconsiderate of others and thug. I can better see him in this role as somebody that has spent time in prison, not someone that went to English prep schools. The English prep school feel is what gave James Bond charm. He also plays a character that shows extreme disrespect for other people: he breaks into M's house, he destroys somebody's car, breaks into an embassy and causes mass destruction--on and on. Now James Bond is just another of 100's of other spies that have been played in the movies: has lost his special esprit. There is not even the bit of humor that also made James Bond special, and a certain weakness. Looking back on James Bond I have to say that Sean Connery created a great James Bond, and Pierce Brosnan continued the tradition better than any other actor. Don't go to the movie because it is a James Bond movie, go to it because it is another exciting (and forgettable) action film; and it is too much like all the rest. Maybe we will be lucky and James Bond will return after Daniel Craig is canned (hopefully he will only last through Quantum of Solace), but maybe the world is not longer as innocent, and change has made the class of Sean Connery's Bond obsolete.