New Bond? Better acting, worse movie

Rating: 5/10 (26 March 2009)

I don't consider any "Spoilers" in this but some might think a few names are dropped. It seems the writers and directors decided that the only way to make 007 interesting is to put very very expensive FX one after another no matter of how lame the story is. The whole plot which is a mystery and it is twisted without any real sense is actually very simple. The time-lines are all out of sorts. While this is to be an earlier Bond and some equipment are kept on that base other things are on present time-line. He is an earlier Bond but drives the new car but carries the old gun. M is the new M and there is no Moneypenny so I guess M is doing everything herself. At the end of Casino Royale he shot Mr. White in the foot and in this one the movie starts right there. But then based on Mathis experience it has been at least a few weeks if not more. The car chase for opening and the DB5 which used to have bulletproof glass is now getting broken easily. Bond is becoming a totally rogue agent. M who had so much power in Brosnan's time now just runs around after 007. Bond is an MI6 agent but does not follow any orders or protocols. In Casino Royale the concept was that M has allowed him to drop off the radar to do the job and find the clues. In this one I am surprised that after the first 40 minutes Bond did not tell M to go #$^% herself!
We always liked the unreal FXs but some of it is just stupid. A hotel in the middle of the desert that has so much H gas in it and is blowing up left and right. Bond is close to indestructible as superman.
The villain is a spoiled kid or acting as such. I like DC as one of the best 007s but the movie is getting too much out of hand. $225 million to shoot this? Waste of money.