Big budget action film without a good storyline

Rating: 3/10 (14 October 2009)

Maybe one should just accept the fact that the Bond franchise has really outlived itself and is dead. maybe it was no longer fitting for our times. What we see here has nothing to do with the Bond films of the past. This owes more to run of the mill action films where CGIs and action sequences are a substitute for characters and a story. That is exactly my first point about this film. It starts off with a action scene and continues that way and about 30 minutes into the film I had actually forgotten what it was all about. I simply lost interest. That is also partly due to the fact that the directing is extremely fast paced and hectic. It's not a coincidence the QOS is the shortest Bond film ever. Craig would make a great Mike Hammer but he is no James Bond. His Bond lacks the sophistication and the wit of the film Bond who of course owes more to Macnee's Steed and Moore's Simon Templar than to Fleming's Bond. However, the ideology is quite perverse, the end justifies the means. maybe that is just the right film in times of Guantanamo. But essentially everything that was fun and playful about the Bond films is gone. So all in all, I think this is your typical big budget action film without a good storyline and interesting characters.