It would have been a great film if it didn't have the title "007"

Rating: 7/10 (10 April 2007)

It was a pretty good movie. But James Bond was much too mortal in this film. The guy bled. The guy got wounds. The guys hair got messed up! It was a good film. But it wasn't a Bond film. I don't go to Bond films to watch a person shoot and get shot. I go to watch a superhuman person called James Bond shoot everybody, land without a scratch (and with his hair and suit in perfect order) so he can get up an get the girl.
James Bond isn't supposed to get shot (he isn't supposed to be blonde either, but hey). He is supposed to be perfect. A true man's man. The guy that can pilot a helicopter, shoot an AK-47 and serve a glass of champagne all at the same time. The guy is supposed to be immortal. He is the man who faced the Cubans, the terrorists, the Soviets and a slew of villains without aging.
But in this film? He shows vulnerability. He shows that he is not the superhuman slick secret agent preforming for her Majesty's' secret service. He becomes another agent who is simply a man trying to make ends meat by killing and getting beaten.
Alas, it would have been a great film if it hadn't been a Bond film. The man's got a reputation to live up to and this time he didn't. Still it is recommended if your looking for a good action movie.