What Just Happened?

Rating: 3/10 (22 November 2008)

I love Bond movies. I thought the that Casino Royale was one of the best Bond movies ever made, right up there with Goldfinger and Goldeneye. And I hoped that the new Bond people were heading in the right direction.
This movie was pretty bad. The first half hour or forty-five minutes of the movie are so confusing, and the chase scenes are so heavily edited, that by the time some sort of plot develops, you have already lost interest. Which by the way, I still don't know what the plot really is to this movie.
The Bond girls in this one were also pretty bad. Strawberry Fields just wasn't needed. And the main one (can't remember her name right now) never really turns into a Bond girl. She's just another girl in the movie, really. Even the chick from Moonraker was a better Bond girl.
And even Moonraker had a climax. This movie had nothing. The ending was pretty bad, mostly because it didn't even seem like an ending. The most anti-climatic ending to a Bond movie, ever.
The one good part of this movie is the acting. Daniel Craig is a superb Bond, he plays the part really well, and Judi Dench is always great. The man who plays Greene isn't horrible, but he's no Le Chiffe. And the Bond girl wasn't horrible. It's the story and the script that really brought this one down.
All in all, don't see this one in theaters. Rent it on DVD. This just wasn't a good Bond movie. Even a misplaced Goldfinger reference couldn't save it.