A pretty bad Bond

Rating: 1/10 (14 November 2008)

I must say I was very disappointed with this latest Bond outing. Casino Royale had raised the bar a bit but this sent it firmly plunging back to the bottom. The plot seemed to be all over the place, but this could in part have been down to the appalling direction of the action sequences - 'let's take the shot in as tight as possible and wave the camera around, that way we'll get a good sense of intensity!' Erm, no - people will just wonder what the hell's going on and start to feel sick. It was all, well, just a mess and it's a shame that, although they are undoubtedly trying to pull some of the success of the Bourne series into Bond, they're failing so miserably. Get a decent director at the helm and not someone who looks they they've just come straight from a music video.