Goodbye Mr Bond. We are neither shaken or stirred!

Rating: 1/10 (20 February 2009)

James Bond is in dire danger. Not from Russians, nor from Koreans, or any other International group of terrorists. The threat to bond comes from International Socialism and their stupid political correctness that infests everything like a plague. Bond is now facing the same stupidity. It will surely not be long before Bond is transformed into an environment loving Hippy homosexual, or even, a feminist lesbian getting her own back on the male race.
Groan!
Leaving that aside, this has to be the worst Bond film in years because of an incompetent director, terrible writing and a rubbish editor. The opening sequence, so vital to all James Bond movies, was ruined by blazingly fast cutting that leaves the viewer fearing an epileptic attack, even if they are not epileptic. Your eye wants to look away because following the action is impossible. Your brain just cannot cope with the quick fire images and sounds and make sense of what is happening on the screen. By the time your head recovers you have to readjust your mind to try and follow the story again.
Pretty soon you are introduced to the so-called villain. A two dimensional "nasty" with a history of problems from his childhood.
Oh Boy!
Then we are treated to a dialogue between the villain and the leader of the rebel forces that reeks of socialist political thinking about corrupt business corporations. O.K. We get it! Capitalism is bad now get off the soap box please! This is followed by a boat chase sequence that looks like it should be in a computer game. The movie goes downhill from here.
Bond has been a favourite for years because it focused on action and not second rate politics. It seems that all of that is changing and in the process it will kill Bond off. Maybe that is the idea? Forget this rubbish. It is nothing like Bond as Fleming made him. This is more like a left wing political activists idea of a character the rest of the world loves but they hate.
Ho Hum. Welcome to tedium and goodbye Mr Bond.