Meh... One of the best Bond flicks ever? Hahaha...

Rating: 4/10 (12 November 2012)

So, by now you've heard that this is probably the best Bond movie of all time and the greatest thing to hit earth since sliced bread. Don't get your hopes up too high.
It's a decent movie. I give it a 4/10. Traditionally, I read nothing about movies before they come out and I see them, this time was no different except I heard the hype from everyone and read headlines saying this was "The Best Bond Yet". Man, was I disappointed. Spoilers ahead: OK, first, the movie starts off great. Cool action scene and bond gets shot in the chest and drops a million feet into a river then goes down a waterfall. Of course he's alive because there's still 2 hours of movie left. But, how is he alive? No one knows, no explanation. I forgave it. But that was a sign of things to come.
Plot: Here's the bad part of the movie, the plot. Half-attempt at making a movie go longer than 2 hours with no plot.. they tried. Here's the plot: a list of undercover agents is stolen and bond needs to get the data files back. List is posted online and agents start getting assassinated left and right.. oh yeah then they totally forget about that whole part of the plot halfway through. So, what's next? OK, Bond, go kill the guy you fought in the intro. He does, finds a gambling chip in this dude's briefcase and goes to the casino. All of a sudden he's flirting with a girl (of course) who just so happens to be the bad guy's main harlot. So what next? Oh let's go to an island with no explanation as to why. It's deserted so the big bad guy lives in this island city with his thugs. The city is deserted why? Oh because the villain is a super computer genius (think Julian Assange here) and that's how he scared off the population... sure..
Wow, I could go on and on.. but I'll save you. The end of the movie was anti-climactic. With a big budget I'm surprised they did that.. a helicopter basically just shoots up a house, then bond blows it up with propane tanks, and the chopper crashes into the house, blowing it up even more... really? Towards the last third of the movie, I got this sense that the bond story was lifted from the Dark Knight movies... then I read a review where Mendes used those as influences. Excuse me.. I'm sorry. When that movie just came out this year, get a new idea please. This is James Bond, write an original story. Don't get into the whole orphan who lost his parents at age 10 who turned out to be a good guy/crime fighter and try to play it off as original. The audience isn't that dumb, but judging by the critics reviews, they are.
Some good things about this movie: Daniel Craig was good with what he was given, and Javier was good with what he was given too. There just wasn't much character development that the story left open. It was SO quick and anticlimactic that I felt I had gone back in time to the Timothy Dalton days.. that's not right. Why can't we just get a director to watch Casino Royale over and over again until they "get" why that one was so good? I might even take Quantum of Solace over this one, at least the story was semi-interesting.
Sam Mendes I believe was the director's name. He should be accused of hijacking intelligent property of the new Batman trilogy and the Home Alone series... And there you have it, the new James Bond that is the alleged "Best Bond Yet".
What a joke.