Bond? What Sort of Bond is this? Single worst Bond Film ever made, It doesn't even deserve to be called a Bond film!

Rating: 1/10 (28 March 2009)

After all the long wait of at last going to see this film, I went expecting a Bond film and I came out bitterly disappointed.
What sort of Bond is Daniel Craig? Connery was a cultured gentleman, lets forget Lazenby, Moore was humorous but not to an extreme and was able to mix it in with the action, Dalton was gritty with a darker sense of humour, but again not to an extreme and Brosnan was a combination of all three.
Craig however has non of these previous qualities, whilst in past films there would be humour and Bond would only kill a few people, not everyone and in most cases it would have an element of fun to it. Here, it is completely cold, way too gritty, humourless, and no one who crosses Bonds path lives, they all die usually in a bloody and over the top fight. In the Spy Who Loves me for example, Bond lets a villain fall off a roof by brushing him away, but afterwards a funny comment is made by him so it makes the whole thing seem funny as well, but in Quantum of Solace, it is completely cold blooded and unBond when Craig does it and he does not even seem to care when he is told he told that he killed a Special Branch officer by doing it.
It seems like Bond is now more Jason Bourne than Bond, with examples like the rooftop chase and the opening car chase, it cuts between the characters so quickly it is impossible in some cases to tell who is who. They might as well re-brand some parts as 'The Bourne Series Continued' as they are so similar. There's just too much action and not enough other parts, plus as a big similarity, no one lives.
Also there is only a very thin plot which is only referred to a few times and is left unresolved at the end. In press releases before the films release, it made it sound like the water storyline in Bolivia is the main story, but it is hardly mentioned, and slips in very slightly within the continual boat chases, aeroplane chases, fights and impossible rooftop chases. Why in earth though as well are there no traditional 'Bond Women'? They used to make every film different from the last and usually advanced the plot forward, but he does not even get her at the end, he lets her go this time. As well as for a second criminal time, there is no Q or Moneypenny, essential characters, nor was the promised opening gun barrel sequence included, it was tacked on at the end.
The title sequence and song, which is what Bond films are famous for was also crap, all it did was move around the desert with some minimal CGI effects, and half the time the song is incomprehensible as it the seemingly boring music which is just a continual repeat of one short sequence and does not even sound like anything that would open a Bond film, at least Casino Royale had a proper song and sequence.
This may be a Bond film, but I don't think it deserves the honour of being one and I don't think this is actually Bond anymore, just another Jason Bourne, with just pure uninterrupted action which steadily becomes more and more boring.