Found this to be really awful

Rating: 1/10 (11 June 2015)

Sorry, will receive lots of grief for this no doubt. As a huge Bond fan, I loved the concept of the movie. Colin Firth fantastic in this role, Michael Caine great as usual, loved Mark Strong's character but was really turned off by so much of this movie.
The actor playing the kid I found to have no real charm in his role or acting ability, forgettable performance to me. I wish him the best but not sure he is really going anywhere.
I found the scene of the agents being told to shoot their dog to be creepy. Yes I know it's a fantasy story but is was disturbing. Not to mention shooting a blank at close range would severely injure or kill the dog anyway which made the scene even more stupid to me.
The scene where Galahad shoots, stabs and slaughters 79 people in the church was just over the top hyper violence and regardless that the church goers were supposed to be Westboro type fanatics, everyday people including women being relentlessly shot in the head for several minutes straight was a turn off. I have no problem for movie violence even when it's campy. In fact I like it when it's needed for the story. But this was in awful taste.
I thought it was stupid that Galahad, the most interesting character in the movie is suddenly and unexpectedly shot in the head and killed. After that I knew the rest of the movie relied on the kid agent to carry the story. What started as mediocre took a real dive for me after that. I have little interest in a sequel without Colin Firth as Galahad.
The scene where the mother's chip activates and she begins hacking the bathroom door apart in order to slaughter her two year old daughter sitting in a stroller to be disturbing, not funny or clever at all. When Jack Nicholson hacks a door apart with an axe, it made sense given the quality build up of character beforehand. This was poorly thought out implied violence on a child and that scene could easily have been left out with no impact on the rest of the movie. Leave that type of scene to cheesy low budget horror movies.
The scene where hundreds of people's heads explode like fireworks to glorious symphonic soundtrack was not funny. Just stupid, gory and overly violent. And this coming from someone that enjoys movie violence as much as the next person when the story behind it has quality.
I'm more than exhausted of Samuel L. Jackson taking any script handed to him and essentially being the same persona in every role he takes except this time we get to hear him use his typical profanity with a lisp. Personally I was annoyed every time he appeared on screen.
The meaningless short bit about the Swedish princess in the cell offering buttsex in exchange for saving the world was really weird and trashy. Did a 14 year old boy write that part of the script? Because that's the kind of humor that was. And then the quick pan down shot of her rear end as she greets him in the cell patiently presenting her back field waiting to be plowed, seems to me it revealed a little more on camera than her butt cheeks. Was not expecting to actually catch a glimpse of was about to be pleasurably assaulted by the hero of the movie.
This movie's R rating is well justified over what I thought was unnecessary gratuitous hyper violence and blatant sexual content that seemed designed only to cheaply shock the viewer and not really enhance the story. What was an interesting story I thought became really stupid and poorly executed to me. Some movies produce low performance and popularity even when they are very good movies. Often times because they are not dumbed down enough for average viewers being expected to think about the story. This movie however in my opinion deserved it's lack luster box office numbers.