Worst Bond Movie Since Octopussy

Rating: 3/10 (14 November 2008)

I went to this movie hoping, praying for nothing short of a masterpiece. I thought all of the ingredients were there from the last movie Casino Royale to make this finally the Bond movie with the biggest scope and rage of the series. But I was wrong. What on saw on the screen was a movie that could not hold it's camera steady and every shot was less that 2 seconds long. There were also hardly any wide shots to show to the audience what they were actually seeing on the screen during fights scenes. This made everything seem unrealistic like the were trying to hide the stunt men with how tight and fast the scenes went. Where as I believe Craig did most of his stunts if I were him I would angry that it was shot this way because it takes his presence out of the film and makes it look cheap. The villain in the film was the weakest since the no names in Octopussy graced the screen. I hatted that they killed Mathes off and it seems was too sentimental for the hard nosed Bond that Craig plays. Also Felix Liter seemed like an after thought forced into the film rather than as essential piece to the equation, which is a pity because that character has great potential that will hopefully be realized in the next installment after we get rid of Marc Foster from behind the camera. Foster is my main antagonizing point against the film, I say this because Craig holds his part of the bargain up nicely and grew as Bond even in this crappy film he was surrounded in. Foster just should stick to art fair and leave action to vets like Martain Cambell who knows what he's doing, case in point Casino Royale and Goldeneye. Some thing I did like about the movie were I believe Judi Dench and Craig have remarkable chemistry and I can't wait to see it grow in better movies. I also liked the idea of the Quantum organization,0 which is just SPECTER for the modern age and I hope that Bloefield from the early movies is the head of this and that this was just a lead in like DR. No. All in all I think this movie should be viewed but know that it is a pale imitator of Casino and everything before it. Pray that some one makes a better Bond movie next time.