Loved Casino Royale, this is not Casino Royale

Rating: 3/10 (7 January 2012)

This movie was absolute garbage. Way too fast with no explanation of plot points. I am an attentive watcher and I have no idea what was going on in this movie. I believe at least 25% of this movie was spent in a chase sequence of some sort. And most of those chase sequences highly disjointed. Bond figures out through some unannounced reasoning that one of M's aids is a double agent; chase scene for 10 minutes. Bond goes to Brazil or something to track a guy, opens the door, the 2 of them fight to the death. No words exchanged on the screen the whole time. Who knows? Maybe spy work is more like this, just following a bunch of unsubstantiated hunches and killing people without trying to get information from them. Regardless of what you think of Pierce's overly-smug Bond, those movies were good for at least 2 or 3 stunts you have never seen before and moments where you got to watch Bond being "the coolest guy in the room." This film had a few one-liners, but was not funny, was hard to watch and I feel I wasted my time. Hopefully, you won't waste yours.