Not sure at all.

Rating: 5/10 (27 October 2012)

Well I've got tickets for tomorrow to see it at the Odeon Marble Arch with the wife & a friend, but like the big kid I am I couldn't wait and saw it this afternoon at my local Vue in North Finchley.
Not sure if I love this film or hate it. It's unlike any other Bond film before it, I guess that's my problem. The plot I thought was a bit hmmm and the pacing I thought was very slow in the middle section, I kept wishing they would ramp up the action rather than all the farting around!
Should Bond be a broody almost art film experience with lots of pondering introspection/emotion, or a no brainer series of action scenes interlinked by a dodgy story involving a megalomaniac trying to take over or destroy the world, interspersed with lots of cool gadgets and good looking girls eagerly jumping into bed with our hero quicker than it takes him to drink his shaken not stirred Martini.
I really need to see it again (tomorrow) to finally decide if it's a work of genius or an over-hyped attempt in making a Bond for the 21st century that is so far removed from the previous films that they have destroyed it. The acting, photography is excellent though, but I didn't like the Thomas Newman score. Newman's scores all remind me of his American Beauty work using lots of pseudo ethnic percussion that I feel is not at all right in a Bond film.
I think the next one will be more of your classic James Bond fare which is better I think than continuing on in this style........I think?
One thing I am sure about is that it's nowhere as good as the greatest most gritty Bond film of all time............. Casino Royale. Where Bond kicks the **** out of everyone and doesn't stand around pondering his childhood.