Disappointing ( they couldn't afford a decent cinematographer and script?)

Rating: 5/10 (15 November 2008)

Mainly I saw Q of S because I'd enjoyed the last movie, and Craig was a very good Bond - probably next-best behind (duh) Connery.
Aigh. Don't bother.
For starters, the cinematography was TERRIBLE. Were I the stunt coordinator, I'd be *ticked*. What's the point in choreographing great sequences, if nobody can understand them? It would be like creating a beautiful painting, then having the idiot curator display it in a dark corner behind a ladder.
To wit: Great action scenes (I guess), lots happening (judging from the sound)  but the camera work was jumbled and oversliced and overspliced and confusing, and all the great stunts and work was WASTED. At the end of one sequence, I actually asked my wife, "What did that guy die of?" Also, very confusing plot, not about much. You'd better have seen Casino Royale five minutes previously, and committed it to memory. Even then... not sure.
And oy! TERRIBLE villain.
He's this limp, languid, licorice-whip French guy with NO personality and NO motivation, right? He just whimpers around. The girl doesn't get killed when he tries to have her killed - he whimpers. She shows up yet again at a party - he whimpers and squirms and rolls his eyes. Sheesh. It's like... like Lindsey Graham as evil mastermind.
But wait, it gets even dumber.
Fast-forward. A HANDCUFFED Bond just overcomes, what, FOUR equally-trained fellow-agents in an elevator? No problem! Whump, whump, whump, he's free.
But then this WIMP of a NOTHING of a bad guy has an extended fight with Bond, as if they're equally-matched, fights and fights as he whines and whimpers more loudly  and then he ends up conscious and alive! Oh. My. Gosh.
So, tip to future evil masterminds: there's your problem. Stop sending your heavily-muscled, heavily-armed, martial-art-trained henchmen after Bond. Pick the guy who's over there going through the latest Good Housekeeping. He'll have a real shot at beating Bond.
I didn't hate the movie, but I was disappointed. All that money they had to use, not well-spent.
And Michael Medved's right, there's some anti-American and pc-stink about it also.
Dudes, get a story, get a good writer, get some FUN locations, and for pete's sake get a CAMERAMAN, and do the next one right.