Quite fantastic although clearly a sequel

Rating: 8/10 (14 November 2008)

This movie was very well-written and the acting is pretty great. Personally I've never been a fan of Daniel Craig as Bond, but he really takes the name in a whole new direction. It's a much darker Bond and you can see some uncaring sides of him that make you say, "I can't believe he just did that," but its entertaining nonetheless. The action scenes are wonderful and it really puts Bond back to some of his finer days. The story starts kind of predictable and so it seems slow at the start, but it picks up and becomes quite a thrill through every scene and really turns out to be a great movie. If you don't remember Casino Royale too much, like myself, there are a lot of references to it that you may not understand. It's a great story but there just always seems to be a gigantic hole in certain places if you haven't seen the previous movie. It's entertaining and has a good story so it definitely gets a great rating, but it would have gotten a better one if it didn't clearly try to be a sequel.