This Movie Sucked on ICE!!! here is why. A few semi spoilers

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 2006)

1. James bond films and all good action usually require a good chase sequence. I'm sorry but the old hanging off the top of a truck thing has been done since the keystone cops days and Much Much better, Indiana Jones, Mad Max, Abbot & Costello, Beverly Hills Cop, etc. That chase scene sucked. As did the 23 second car chase that ended when James tried to avoid his girlfriend.
2. The opening chase was okay but there was nothing emotionally driving it you know? It just sort of happened, see the movie B-13(?) maybe 14 can't remember but that was fluid and joyful but still a chase scene. This was just I don't know okay.
2. D. Craig was great and has the potential to be a great bond. But this film sucked, The direction was awful. I don't know about you but I didn't have to know how to play bacarrat in the early S Connery films but still there was tension created. The Texas Hold Em scenes were ridiculous, with the Giannini commentary " That's his tell...." " that means the stakes are 12 million..." whatever totally dumb. Boring No tension.
3. Bond films always have a great moment where they exact revenge... Le Cheffre was killed by others after repeatedly banging the guy in his nuts we the audience really needed to see the revenge. The final revenge of a character hardly introduced just doesn't cut it.
4. The opening black and white scene was drawn out and frankly boring. If you want to see Brutal cold hard killing please see Dr. No, when Connery kills the guy in cold blood in the same way but it has an added Hickock like tension. (This director sucks)
5. Terrible opening sequence, Bad crappy song. Chris Cornell has lost all hard, cool credibility with this one lame, forgettable theme. The graphics blew... uninteresting.
6. I know, I know, it's the origin of the character but to not have the theme till the final moment is unforgivable. The theme is bond. It needs to be there not some generic music during action sequences. Come on. it's like doing a remake of the Wizard of Oz without "Were off to see the Wizard, or Somewhere over the R...."
6. Bond placed a tracking device in Le Chefre's Inhaler and it was left on the table but he was able to track Le Chefre during his girlfriend almost getting her arm cut off. Do the producers think we are stupid.
7. The girlfriend relationship was pretty cool but almost undercooked, I swear to god there was more emotional depth and loss between Lazenby and Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty's Sercret Service.
8. Maybe my biggest complaint. Bond not reacting to near death experiences. What mad Connery and some of the others so good was the sense of real danger. There were so many scenes of Craig not even flinching when a guy was shooting like 200 rounds at him while he was hiding behind a pillar. No reaction from Craig, No reaction from me. Come on. I know, I know he's cold blooded but give me a break. It separates us from the experience.
I swear I can go on and on. Please don't think I'm being too hard but I really had high hopes with all the hype that this was back to the old brutal but suave bond.... it just is more of the same with a new much more bond like character. If this is the first one out of the box, the other ones are going to be gadgets and crappy quips galore.