not worth any Bond fan's time

Rating: Null/10 (25 July 2011)

A total disgrace to the franchise. I don't care how Bond is filmed, this movie looked like an over-sleeked ad, with the light effects on the car and the monochrome palette but truth is: who cares? I didn't want a Wong Kar Wai art movie! I wanted Bond, and he's totally ridiculous here: he's in love (LE SIGH), he seeks revenge (SIGH AGAIN), he's dirty and never proper (blood-stained shirt under a tuxedo, who are you trying to impress?) and leaves a corpse in a dump. Olga Kurylenko is the only good thing to look at but she misses the flair and femininity of a bond girl in my opinion. I don't care for khakis and guns. Add to that the fact that Bond is...in Bolivia and Haiti!! Now I feel as if I were watching World vision: ruins!!! Everywhere!
Where is the glitz and the glamour? Why the hell would I watch (and enjoy watching) semi-formal receptions in ruinous hotels?
The movie is totally lifeless, the two small and supposedly humorous lines of the movie (""She's sea-sick and...yeah whatever) are delivered in the manner of a dead fish and sink the movie. Pitiful. Bond and M share no connection, which may have been the only movie-saviour.This movie is basically crass in a Tiffany box: colourful or colour-matching scenes to impress the viewer and make him forget about the lousy settings, the pointless roughness of the protagonist, the paper-thin dialogues and the overall lack of sophistication in the movie (I mean: a rape scene? Please..)"