NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN Pierce Brosnan

Rating: 2/10 (31 March 2009)

we need you to save Bond or persuade Hugh Grant, Matthew MacFadyen or Clive Owen (Duplicity) to shave and step into your shoes. Mr. Craig is too short, too blond, too working class and his best attempt at tongue-in-cheek repartee is to frown and pout his lips. Enough. No whining over dead lovers. This humorless FX spectacle was dry as a Martini. We want the fabulous graphics opening title sequence, the sultry female vocalist title song, not Jack White. Get over Bourne, producers. We want a personality. We want suave, elegant, debonair. We want gadgets. We want a lethal lady villain like Sharon Stone. A swift karate chop to the neck, posing around corners with a Walther PPK, more driving the car, not blowing up the cars, buildings, and everything that will ignite. We want spies. We want a simple plot. Bad spy steals something, good spy steals it back. We want a better script and director. We want a real arch villain and henchmen. Give us Blofeld and Oddjob. And we want Moneypenny.