Shockingly bad

Rating: 2/10 (19 February 2011)

A lot has been said about the editing. It really makes a giant mess of the action sequences and, as happened with the last two Bourne films directed by Paul Greengrass, one somehow ends off disorientated and lost rather than enthralled.
However, there are so many more flaws. The villain is not particularly interesting and his grand conspiracy is humdrum. Somehow the story seems to get lost. There is some shifting focuses before it grows boring, then it seems to be more shallow than the film would have you believe before and, once again, it gets lost again and somehow muddled.
Craig is not a very good Bond, we are still missing gadgets, Q, moneypenny.... and still unimpressed overall. Brosnan magnificently rose to the challenge and the producers there successfully continued the franchise with a good 'modern' twist. Since Craig took over, the chararcter has been reinvented as a bitter, emotionless assassin that lack flare and a sense of fun and cheekiness. The sooner they ditch making more of these types of bonds, the better.