The end of Bond as we know it

Rating: 2/10 (20 November 2008)

It seems that the studios continue their efforts to downgrade James Bond to a dummy action hero.
For those that are not aware James Bond was a graduate from Eton, the country's most prestigious and elitist institution, later serving as a commander at the Royal Navy where secret service recruited him from.
However this style-less, violent, machine-gun loving, destroy-all-in-my-passage "guy" (who also does to wear the super tailor made suits we were accustomed to) is acting in a manner that bears no resemblance to the credentials worthy of a Bond degrading the genre from spy/thriller to action/adventure. In other words, one of the finest franchises in cinematic history is fast becoming a flick.
The more I watched, the more it occurred to me that I was in a Die Hard or Mission Impossible screening, definitely not a Bond.
Again, just as it happened with Casino Royale, the numbers at the box office justified this downgrade. Just because it was a commercial success, does not make it a good film.