Judi's the only thing worth watching!

Rating: 1/10 (10 February 2007)

Just walked out of this movie (for the first time since abandoning that miserable old git Van Morrison in Manchester, England in 1995 - not that I suppose he lost any sleep over it). Daniel Craig is most fetching and wouldn't be thrown out of my house on a cold night but other than that - what boring, dated, macho nonsense!! The stunts don't even rate as particularly exciting any more - after all, we all know what computers can do these days, so even if some poor stuntman really is leaping about and defying death, we really don't appreciate it these days.
Talk about identifying a money-making formula forty-odd years ago and then just rehashing it whenever the tax bill arrives - sorry Barbara Broccoli and co., the world has progressed just a little since Ursula Andress and that bikini on the beach, stop cynically milking us of our ticket money just because it's got '007' written on it! Give them some credit though - the publicity machine manages to convince millions that this rubbish is worth watching and is no doubt keeping many a film crew away from the soup kitchens.
Just so's you don't think this is a complete hatchet job, I will praise the wonderful Dame Judi Dench - she gives depth and interest to M and is an inspired piece of casting. Good for you, Judi love, I'm sure you were handsomely paid for a few days of work on this piece of piffle.