Terrible, Dull, and NOT BOND

Rating: 2/10 (20 June 2012)

People say the Craig Bonds are more realistic... well to a point, as if that's a good thing anyway. But this 'realistic'Bond still has plenty of stupid scenes - they fall from a plane onto hard rocks with a parachute between them that barely opens at the last second, we see them hit the ground hard... then they are both fine. Eh? Bond needs to save the girl so he jumps his motorbike onto a boat, then another boat then uses that boat to rescue her in an unclear manner. Why not just take a nearer boat? The villain? Some slimy little Roman Polanski type? Who cares? And his plan sucks. And we don't see him die but apparently he drank the oil that Bond gave him because he was thirsty in the desert... would anyone do that? It's OIL.
Bond rarely seems in danger. Just grumpy.
He gets to bed a woman, but she just seems to be suddenly up for it. Usually he charms them, even if his charm is cheesy. Not this time, we just see her wake up with dull grumpy big ears.
So what is good about it please? He's not a 'likable killer'. He kills people, but it's perfunctory. He's not at all charming. Cheesy jokes have been removed, but replaced with just dull, random pointless dialogue instead. There are no awesome set-piece stunts or action scenes, not one. There are some very average ones though. No gadgets at all, I mean who liked Bond's gadgets anyway, eh? Or the theme music? Get rid of that nonsense... (sarcasm btw) And the ending is just bleh. Sure, he's got some 'solace', it means little to him, it actually is a bit meaningful compared to the rest of the film. But its still a boring ending to a dull as hell movie.
Oh I just remembered one redeeming feature - some of the cinematography and colours were nice. Woo, I suppose it gets the one star for that.