My name is Bond, James ... who?

Rating: 6/10 (24 March 2009)

Ever since I first visited a Bond movie (I think it was Moonraker), I always look forward to the next one. So I also was looking forward to Quantum of Solace. For the first time in the Bond history, a sequel. And also for the first time in the Bond history, I was very disappointed about this movie. Not for being it a very short Bond movie, not for having a bad Bond girl; Olga Kurylenko plays a very delightful one. No, the problem for me is that this simply isn't a Bond movie. It is a pretty good action movie (although for me a bit modern and neurotically shot), but no humor, almost no gadgets, not Q grumbling at Bond for smashing up another fully featured car, not a handful of beautiful women flocking Bond, not even a Martini, shaken, not stirred And what is the happy ending of almost each Bond movie? Right, Bond being untraceable and a beautiful Bond girl whispering "Oh James" in his ear. This one doesn't. It's just suddenly over and a full house of cinema visitors looking disillusioned was this really it? Too bad, but if Daniel Craig also plays the next Bond, they lost me as a Bond fan. Because for me, Craig isn't a real Bond either. He has beautiful blue eyes, but he is too rough, is not a charmer and lacks humor. But my daughter, who visited her first Bond movie, liked it. So maybe I am just getting to old for this new generation of Bond movies. Maybe I just have to spend my nights with an old Bond with Connery, Moore or Brosnan