My view of this "Bond' film

Rating: 5/10 (16 April 2007)

To be honest I don't get why people seem so fond of this movie, apart from the fact that they might have hated all the previous ones. I think the casting has been great, actors, scenery, camera, etc all did their job almost perfectly (earning this film 5 stars), but the story writer should be fired and kicked from anything to do with action films and films with a history, as he did not write a James Bond (will explain later), but some really bad romantic film, which made it into something reasonably decent (on the borderline of a waste of time) because of the great actors etc.
Reasons why I did not like it:

The importance of the girl - Pls don't make a James Bond movie to enforce feminism, or to let James Bond fall in love with a girl, as he will not ever do that. That is just not him, he uses girls (just as some girls use guys) for the sake of england. I have no problem with the boss of MI6 to be female, but James bond does simply not fall in love and quit his job for a girl.

The role of James Bond - James Bond is an extremely knowledgeable, skilled, intelligent, observant, cool (including attracting girls and gadgets) British spy. He does not use brute force to win a fight, but uses the surrounding and skill to win (look at all other James Bond fights, apart from this movie). He does not get emotionally attached to girls, does not fall into reasonably obvious traps, recognizes liars and never loses a betting game, without intending to. This might be a little unrealistic, but that has worked perfectly in all the other James Bond films, keeping the name high.

The storyline - This movie had no storyline at all. It starts off with him fighting somewhere (shows a movie of him using brute force instead of skill), then going to a poker game, losing, having to rely on the CIA for money to be able to continue playing, getting poisoned, needing to rely on the girl to help him to survive, winning the poker tournament, not showing anything more of him playing from the part where he lost, him getting tortured, the torturer getting shot, him quitting his job, his girlfriend dying, him killing (you just see the guy die, no clue on how, when or where) some terrorist boss. This is opposite to a fairly simple normal James Bond plot, where you do not think 3 times "Is it finished?" (I remember I did) and actually get to see some action and no torturing or just using brute force.

The story of the girl - I don't get it. She started working for criminals, because of her boyfriend of 6 months ago, and then buys out James for $150M, and then dies because of her dealings with the bad guys? Its way too complicated and unrealistic to be true.

Another proof I have for this James Bond film to not be a James Bond film is that I had a holiday girlfriend (lives in north London, met her on Mauritius), who got bored of normal James Bond films, but liked this one, while for me it was exactly the other way around, therefore showing that peopl who usually don't like James Bond like this and vice versa, suggesting this is not a James Bond movie.
P.S. I just read some more comments and i must say I wholeheartly aggree to some of them. James Bond has become a thug, and maybe the new James Bond is not exactly fit to be suphisticated, knowledgeable, skilled, etc enough, or to appear so. I don't know, but this film was definitely the worst James Bond I have ever seen.