Craig's the right choice as Bond

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2006)

I've just found out how many bad press accompanied the announcement of Daniel Craig as the new 007 last year. I'm happy now everyone realized: he's the best choice as Bond.
For me, the best since Sean Connery. I liked Roger Moore, but he always seemed to miss sg, and neither Timothy Dalton nor Pierce Brosnan could make me believe they could kick anyone's a** at any time... Especially Brosnan who played Bond since I first got interest in movies. I never believed Halle Berry would get in bed with him in real life, nor the fact he can beat the bad guys. Of course he had hi-tech on his side...
now that is also a positive thing: to leave the extreme high technology alone for good.
To be honest, former Bond films were always the same: there was this around-50 guy who had all the pretty girls.
This Bond is more "real" than Brosnan could ever be. He gets beaten, he gets poisoned, he gets cut. He falls in love. He makes mistakes and he can get angry. All in all, this Bond-in-the-making figure is the way I'd portray Bond.
AS for Daniel Craig, he just fits so well. From his swimsuit scenes (that body is HOT) through his cool, easily-losing-his-mind character to the fighting scenes - and the looks in all, I mean the blond-and-blue-eyed is just way more cool. His Bond is a tough guy, who still has a heart.
I have to add that the only negative thing here are the sometimes silly dialogs. The love-talk (i have no armor anymore-thing) sounded a bit too fake, and I just saw they used it in the trailer, where it sounded actually good, but in the movie it's just not fitting. Also where Bond admits he decided to resign you cannot believe him, it made me thinking, maybe Bond thinks Vesper's the traitor? He sounded like 'Bond pretending love to get something'. I had to realize later that he actually meant it, even though the end is what it is...
After all, this was the best Bond movie I saw in a very long time - I'm happy Pierce Brosnan has been replaced (nothing against him though), and even more glad Daniel Craig - who I did like for his acting in Layer Cake, Munich, Road To Perdition, and in the Hungarian Sorstalanság (well, just one scene), I liked that he wanted to participate in that project. I like the kind of roles he picks and how he portrays his characters.
So, thumbs up for the new Bond, hopefully this will be a very long "relationship" between Craig and the Broccoli family!