There was surely a better way of spending a Saturday night

Rating: 2/10 (1 November 2008)

Don't often feel compelled to write a review - but in this case OMG! Bond - that's James Bond - err wasn't! He was a miserable, dour faced, vengeful, souless man (need I go on?) He's definitely had a personality transplant! Where was the charm? where were the Bond clichés? (yes - they ARE integral to Bond!) I have to confess - I am not a Daniel Craig fan - but... since he's got the current licence to kill (though definitely not thrill) I will endure. I WANT to see why other people rate him - but definitely failed in QoS.
It's amazing, having read all the reviews before mine, how it seems you either LOVE this movie or HATE it! Sorry but I am in the latter category. I thought it was my vertigo playing up at first, I had to look away from the screen (thank God we were sitting at the back) several times. The editing was appalling - the action sequences seemed like they were pieced together 1 frame at a time and then stuck together in the most haphazard way one had simply no idea what was going on! Hand held cameras used for realism??? No - it just looks jerky and home video-ish. Just lots of bangs, crashes, and explosions in no particular order.
It was obvious the movie thought to rely on the action to portray the story. Oh sorry! there wasn't a story - or not that I could fathom anyway. The baddie was not evil enough, the Bond girls had only very brief interaction with himself, (perhaps he's lost his libido along with his charm)and the plot? I think I lost that! I know it's hard to keep coming up with new stunts and thrilling scenes, but this one didn't even try. We had car chases, boat chases, air plane chases - haven't these already been done to the death before?(and far better than this!)There was no originality in this movie at all.
The dialogue was uninspiring - but since there wasn't much of a story that's hardly surprising. In fact Daniel's script must have been pretty short since must of it must have read: cut to action scene: I would like to end on a positive note but can't think of anything.