An absurd and preposterous bore

Rating: 1/10 (21 April 2009)

I only caught up with this film on DVD, and was so glad not to have forked out precious money on a cinema seat to have seen this farrago of total nonsense. Apart from the film being absurd and preposterous all the way through, actually, its worst sin in my eyes was that it was all a total bore.
Reflecting more, and picking up a few points from other critical comments on IMDb, it struck me that all of the film-makers concerned - scriptwriters, producers, directors, and even some of the actors - must have a real contempt for the intelligence of the cinema-going film-watching public. Not once in the film was there any attempt to present the viewer with a coherent story line. When the audience was grudgingly granted a scene containing no more than a dozen lines of dialogue which barely hinted at that particular stage of the clearly non-existent plot, the viewer was then pummelled in the head with lots of irrelevant and absurd "action" set pieces, which actually had one rolling in the aisles at home with uncontrollable laughter at the utter stupidity of each of those exercises.
And then, just before the film makers thought that the audience might "just" then be wanting to know what the hell was going on with some "story" etc, they were whisked off to yet another exotic location for Daniel Craig to do his "okay, so it's Thursday, so I must be in Haiti", strutting around as his particular form of "acting"; or no, "it's Friday so we must be in Bolivia", behaving all the time in such a self-important manner as though every misbegotten viewer of this nonsense should somehow be admiring him! To be fair, Daniel Craig was good and threatening in his role as the would-be assassin priest in "Elizabeth".
That's another thing which really got me about this film. All the actors concerned seemed to take themselves far too seriously and self-importantly - cocky is the word, - just because they were in a "Bond" film. Pretentious, the lot of them! Seriously, this so-called "Bond" film should be laid to rest with the whole of the Bond film franchise so that we see no more of these useless films, under the heading, "R.I.P".