The love story

Rating: 9/10 (14 December 2006)

I liked the repartee between Bond and Vesper, but I think she needed more sex appeal; the thin, tomboyish character depicted here was more like a sophomore at Vassar College. It looked more like friendship - I expected more suppressed magnetism between them. Read Casino Royale and you'll see what I mean. Maybe it's an Ian Fleming -1950's kind of sexuality. The old-European setting at Montenegro was terrific. Pleasure to watch the power, the manners, the clothes, the cars, the gambling tables, of the filthy rich. I'm relieved to see a dead serious James Bond, not completely tongue-in-cheek. He doesn't laugh that much even when he thinks it's funny, like when he rams the SUV he stole into another car, in order to distract the security guards so he can look at the television camera CDs of people who recently visited the hotel. Daniel Craig - Blonde? Robert Redford is a blonde.