Near perfect

Rating: 9/10 (7 February 2015)

What I find funny is that all the people rating this ridiculously low claim to be 'purists' and this bond film doesn't exactly follow the previous format so long associated with 007 films. There isn't Q or Moneypenmy. Boo-who gives a damn? Moneypenny is nothing other than a 30 second slot filling the role of a 'woman in power' previously and does nothing (generally speaking) for any of the films. The void that Q left is nonexistent in the times we are living in. Those quirky dumbass gadgets (a watch that has a grappling line that can support two human bodies? Really? Or how about the 'magnetic' power that same watch had? Or my favorite being the 'identigraph', "describe the person you wish to identify and it shall go through CIA etc databases and find a match". Are you kidding??) would look laughable and would do nothing but drag the film down. So giving Q the boot makes sense. Out of context, this is a terrific film. I'm not going into the attributes it has but needless to say, there's a reason almost every ex-bond hails this one to be one of the best due to its modern feel instead of being stuck in '83 with a car that has wings on it that flies out of a barn. It worked then becausev they were pioneering and paving the way for 'high tech'. Now we live in if not past what the bonds of the early years were displaying as the future etc. Daniel Craig is tied with if not the best bond yet. Argue, doesn't matter. Years down the road it will be confirmed. He's not cracking dumbass one liners and trying to screw everything that walks (apart from Bibi, which thank the gods he stayed away from that nasty poster of the post-current American girl. "Come Bibi lets go practice", "do I have to? I'm POOPED!") which is refreshing and it concentrates more on dialogue and actual acting rather than Sir Roger Moores & Co. laughable performances clouded by 'hot babes' and even more laughable 'gadgets'. For once I don't feel like Im watching some horrible remake of the same movie with different faces and different backgrounds with the same bland story line. The only thing memorable of previous bonds were the villains and that's because they weren't completely filled with bullshit gushing out of their mouths like their counterpart hero was. Not to knock the older bond films because some are great and are masterpieces of the film industry but others I can't help but laugh out of pity for the actors being subjected to such awful scriptwriting. Okay, that's it.