Possibly the worst bond movie

Rating: 2/10 (9 April 2009)

Initially I would blame this bad movie on the writer as there can really only be one Ian Flemming but Barbara and Michael (the producers) have been around long enough to know what a real bond movie should look like. Bond has been popular all these years because he has style and the plot is witty. This film has neither of these elements.Its a hotch botch of lots of action and SFX sequences which aren't really cut well together but I suspect this is not entirely the editor's fault but maybe it is (I don't know what material he was given to work with). There seems to be a belief that lots of action, violence and special effects is what bond fans want. Well I for one don't look for that and I know friends who were equally disappointed with this film. This film is really bad writing and poor direction. Albert, Barbara's father, who created the bond films, would be restless in his coffin if he could see how his series has becoming. My advise to the producers and to the future director (sorry this film wasn't directed well) is to NOT start the next bond movie before you got a script that screams really as well as the Fleming books. Then find a director who knows how to give pace and style to the movie without needing to cut fast on every scene and who can hold an audience because of the characters and the way the scene in played out, without needing violence, action, sfx almost every time. Often action and sfx is an excuse to hold an audience which has nothing else to hold onto. Oh and Barbara stop trying to save money by bringing in the sponsors. The car chase at the beginning (shot badly) did'nt do justice to the opening of the film. It was so badly directed and cut. Most ridiculous were the sunglasses...Im guessing they were sponsors but maybe Im wrong, which would make it even more ridiculous. First the bad guy Green meets with his business partners on the pier and they're all wearing dark sunglasses which look strikingly similar and catchy. They talk as they stare away from each other in opposite directions..ouch what a yukky way of staging the scene like kids trying to play mafia bosses but parading instead with fashionable sunglasses almost like they're on a cat walk. I then couldn't believe my eyes when two similar sunglasses were dressed on Giancarlo and Daniel later ss they met alone in the middle of nowhere. Again it looked like some fashion statement but unfortunately the glasses don't help Craig who is already quite wooden in his acting. Really, i don't know if I expressed myself well enough here but this movie is really one of the worst in the series. Even the opening music wasn't chosen well. Im sure Barbara or Michael would argue that they've got to use a song that's more 'in' with today's times, so they went for this very beaty song that doesn't have the same memorable tunes that other bond movies leave you with. I'm 36 not 50, so im not being nostalgic from old age. I simply cant believe how experienced producers can make such a blunder. Sorry for being blunt.