The real Bond is gone

Rating: 4/10 (9 April 2009)

**MINOR SPOILERS**
I am a big Bond fan and will say that this movie left me upset both at the kind of action movie it is and the fact that they destroyed the Bond image.
James Bond is the coolest spy in the world. He has class, charm, wit, humor etc. Although I like Daniel Craig in movies like Munich and Defiance, he is not James Bond, never will be. First off, he has not a shred of emotion other than hate, anger, cold blooded vengeance, etc. He makes no jokes (writer's fault), never smiles and lacks a lot of charm. He acts more like some a-hole jock who kills then he does a man who acts classy and woos women over with his quirks and facial expressions.
Next, the plot line is ridiculous. An evil environmentalist??? What happened to trying to stop the evil genius from taking over the world, or preventing a bomb from going off while fighting in outer space, or some other cool unrealistic plot. Bond movies are supposed to be about imagination and fun. Instead, like in Casino Royale (when they made references to 9/11 attacks) they relate the stories to present day realistic scenarios. When I watch a Bond movie I want to escape to a world where the impossible is possible accompanied by suspenseful action packed ending with real fire, not CGI graphics, which really upsets me that they did that.
The action sequences, though there are quite a few, are painful to the eyes. No shot lasts for more than about 0.5 seconds. You can't even tell what's going on half the time because the shots are so confusing.
The Bond girl/girls are a joke, I won't even get into that.
Bottom line, it's worth a watch just so you can judge for yourself, but the fact remains that almost all the original Bond movie qualities are gone, and this remains a confusingly filmed short (about 90 minutes) action movie, not a Bond Movie.