Worst Bond movie ever!

Rating: 2/10 (14 November 2008)

I was first introduced to James Bond in the early 1960's when, stationed in the USAF in Iceland, I ran across a copy of "Gilt Edged Bonds"- a compilation of three of the first four Bond novels. I have been hooked ever since, but am rapidly losing my interest as the Bond chronicles continue to deteriorate in substance, plot, and film direction. This latest Bond effort is a total fiasco and has little redeeming value-it is , without a doubt. the worst Bond movie ever, taking over the bottom spot from "The Man with The Golden Gun". First of all, the film has no plot, a totally unrealistic story line, and by far the worst direction ever. The whole effort appears to be an attempt to tie a bunch of overdone, mostly incomprehensible, action scenes together with little regard for any purpose or continuity. All of the action scenes are close up, momentary glimpses that are difficult to follow and go on endlessly. The opening car chase scene has got to be one of the biggest wastes of special effects and stunt money ever made. Ditto the plane scene and the final pyro technical scene- which appears to spend half of the films budget on explosives and gasoline-to what end we will never know. Gone is any effort at the infamous Bond humor and innuendos (remember the "cunning linguist"?)or even a reasonably believable screenplay. I am sure both Ian Fleming and Cubby Broccoli and turning over rapidly in their graves as a result of this pathetic film effort. You would think that Barbara Broccoli,who has taken over for her late father as Producer, would exercise some basic effort and judgment to try to make a decent picture, but suppose the theater receipts are much more important to her. Rated a 2, only because Craig and Dench try to make an effort to salvage the disaster.