This is not Bond

Rating: 3/10 (11 December 2008)

I read an interview with Marc Forster that a sequence was cut out of the movie, where Daniel says the classic "Bond, James Bond" line. Somehow it did not fit in the movie, he said. I understand why, this is not a Bond movie. This is just a dumb action movie with lots of shaky scenes where you can hardly see what is going on. I hope the producers will see the mistake they made and will be back on track on the next movie. I have seen all bond movies, including Casino Royale which I thought was a good movie, but this is really just one star worth for me. Daniel Craig will not have had any trouble remembering his lines. As soon as he starts to talk some new action sequence is coming up, most of them are chases on foot so this feels a lot as a bad Jason Bourne movie. No great Bond lines, and no humor at all in this movie. I don't expect a comeback of the Roger Moore time-line, but as the movie is now, you can hardly call it entertainment.