Bit of a disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (3 December 2006)

I fail to see why everybody's making such a big song and dance of this Bond film. OK, I agree that Daniel Craig is a better Bond than Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton. And it's better than the last film. And I'm even willing to give them some credit for trying to reinvent the genre and trying to build the Bond character from scratch again by starting all over. But did none of the people involved in the production watch the film from beginning to end? It's totally disjointed and incredibly difficult to believe. I'm not trying to say that Bond films should be realistic, but it would be nice if we were able to believe that a spy could actually figure something in particular out from the clues that have been given. I just spent the entire film waiting for all the threads to be wrapped up and tied together. And then it was just over. I'm assuming that the questions left open will be answered in the next film, but that doesn't really work for me. It's a Bond film, we're expecting him to wrap things up nice and neatly and walk off into the sunset.
All that said, I will definitely go see the next one and hopefully Daniel Craig will be a little more comfortable in the role then and able to stamp his own personality on it.