The name's Craig. Daniel Craig

Rating: Null/10 (22 November 2006)

Bond is back (well... Craig is here for the first time)- with a vengeance! Great movie and ditto performance by Daniel Craig. All doubts about him as 007 can now be laid to rest. He portrays the rogue Bond, similar to Connery's 007. He goes with the times: spiky hair and ever that PDA-cellphone gadget which is becoming very familiar around us (didn't need Q to explain that). And the psycho-analysis by M and Vesper, something Connery's 007 would have been loath to undergo. The story is well-paced with "all the usual refinements" in the plot. And when 007 gets romantically involved you know what her destiny is (ref. OHMSS), we can't have a committed Bond next time, can we. The only reference I caught to the 1967 CR with Sellers/Niven, was Mathis mentioning the cavalry. With this CR, EON and Craig have done themselves a dubious favor: the bar is now set so high, it will be hard to top next time. And oh yes, the last five seconds, a masterful find!
Eric Liong Curacao - Dutch Caribbean