Different...but in an extremely good way

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2006)

When I first heard about this movie and saw the trailers for it, my expectations of it and Daniel Craig were very low. The first time I saw Daniel Craig in one of the trailers, I felt like he should've been one of the bad guys. He has this tough and, not evil, but angry looking exterior. Once I saw the movie, I was stunned. Daniel Craig did great, even with some of the comical lines, like when his drink was spiked and he almost dies in his car, then he came back to the poker table looking just fine and said, "That last hand almost killed me." The whole theater was laughing. You do have to kind of get used to him as the movie plays on, but once it ends and you get to the final scene, you know that he is James Bond.
The one main thing i didn't really like about the movie was the title song by Chris Cornel titled "You Know My Name." I'm not saying the song was bad. After I got home when the movie finished, I listened to that song. After a few times listening to it, I got used to it and now i can't stop listening to it. It's a pretty good song, I just didn't feel like it should've been used for the title credits in a Bond movie. It doesn't really give you the Bond kind of feeling. That's just how I feel about it. If you liked it, then great, good for you, at least the whole movie was amazing.
Aside from the one thing I didn't like about the movie, I loved the action sequences. There wasn't too little action and there wasn't too much of it either, which is just perfect. The one black guy who Bond chases through a construction site is crazy. He jumps from like 30 feet high onto the ground. Since this is how Bond started, he obviously messes up at times, which makes him human. Another reason I like this Bond is because it is more realistic. No, he doesn't have all the little gadgets or even Q, but they weren't really needed for this movie. They will probably appear in the next Bond movie, which is now being called Bond 22.
The Bond girls in this Bond were, as usual, smokin' hot. Even though I don't really like Eva Green too much, she was very good in her part as Vesper Lynd. She pulls off the character by making it beautiful and also conniving. Caterina Murino was good, but sadly, did not have much screen time with Bond. She almost gets lucky with Bond, and the next time she comes in the movie she's dead.
Oh ya, I like how they chose to put the Bond theme song at the end after he says the famous Bond line, "The name's Bond...James Bond." That is when we know that he is now the Bond we all know and love. That is where his theme begins. OK, all in all, this movie was excellent I don't think they should've changed one bit of it, except for the really stupid title song they chose for it, which was really really stupid. I recommend all Bond lovers and even just movie-lovers to go see this for themselves and enjoy it.