Bond is slowly becoming just another modern spy movie (and there's a huge accent on JUST)

Rating: 5/10 (24 November 2008)

I think that there has to be a big red line between Bond films and Bourne films. I was simply delighted by strongly action-oriented and extremely well directed Bourne Ultimatum but it DOES NOT mean that Bond being a copy of that scheme will be a good solution too. I think - and as I see I'm not alone in this opinion - that Bond should be Bond, and Bourne should be Bourne. The same fact that so many people point out this similarity, should be a strong argument for Bond movies not to go this path. When I recall the success of the first after long break "new-wave" Bond films with Pierce Brosnan I see the same spirit as in the earlier Sean Conery flicks. But in the modern outfit. Now when I look at Daniel Craig's films I see only new outfit. Without the spirit. Bond is slowly becoming just another modern spy movie (and there's accent on JUST). There's no distance, no humour, no vodka-tini, no gadgets, no witty conversations with women younger than M, no echo-laughter of the evil character, no under-lake space stations, etc., etc. Even Kurylenko is not so Bondy as she should be.
I understand that Bond needed refresh after Brosnan era, but I think not so quickly and not so hard-way. And Eva Green in Casino Royale - who besides can play even a shovel and still look sexy - will not rescue the hole four movies with Daniel Craig (Yes - I believe the two next will be in the same manner)