Very disappointing

Rating: 1/10 (12 November 2008)

To put it shortly - bad opening, boring midsection because of a dull script and bad ending. The mandatory action scenes every Bond movie starts with were over-edited, confusing and implausible e.g. bullets flying all around conveniently not inflicting any serious damage to a vehicle which obviously wasn't a special "Bond car"... The theme song was so annoying that I was staring with disbelief at the opening credits simply wondering when this overproduced soulless concoction is going to end... Then I really had hard time focusing on the boring conversations which were supposed to tell me who is who and where Bond is going to show up next - so after a while I caught myself falling asleep quite a few times, for the first time while watching a Bond movie!! I guess that speaks for itself... Craig basically kept his facial expression (stern face with protruding upper lip) throughout the whole movie and so did sulky-faced Kurylenko which must have been spending way too much time at tanning booths. Of course there was no chemistry between them which makes me wonder what a "Bond girl" is supposed to mean from now on?!? Speaking of Craig: I thought he did a good job in Casino Royale as the new tough I-don't-give-a-damn James Bond but after Quantum of Solace I want the good old witty, intelligent, flirtatious kind of Bond back. And I think he is not the proper choice to pull that off. What do we get here: no humor, no tongue-in-cheek dialogs, no Bond gimmicks... I assume this movie was supposed to be taken seriously, especially when he did the old trick jumping out of the airplane without a parachute:) To add insult to injury, the showdown tried really hard to convince us that the baddie (Dominic Green), a guy who looks more like a bank clerk on vacation, turns out to be probably the most dangerous combat opponent of James Bond who otherwise is chopping and mowing down every beefy thug within seconds!! Puh-leease... do you scriptwriters think we are brain amputees?? Maybe this is not the worst Bond movie ever but it surely is one of them. I hope the producers will try to get a decent script and a better director next time, if there is one.