This is an abuse of the 007 franchise

Rating: 2/10 (28 November 2008)

There are many deficits in this movie. The title song is one of the first, it's clearly 22nd in order among all the Bond movies. Its discordant and miserable. As for the movie, lots of action, very little explanation. They went for grit and gave up any attempt at clarity. The only ones who can follow what is going on must be those that have a script in hand. I prefer Bond to be escapism and not just escaping. This version is a series of action sequences around a very ill-defined set of bad guys. A few more minutes explanation in this movie would have been useful. Bond wanders the earth without passports or credit cards and can still get into countries and fancy hotels. There are apparently direct flights between Italy and Bolivia that one can board without ID. There is a nice ecological hotel in the desert that is apparently build out of explosive materials. Apparently there is a vast underground water supply under the desert of Bolivia that no one has ever found and that the CIA thinks it is likely to be oil. I'm used to suspending belief an logic in movies but not on this scale. It used to be that a 007 movie was a sure thing for buying a movie ticket, I'm suspending that belief until they prove they can actually tell a good story.