It's a bad movie.

Rating: 4/10 (9 December 2012)

I have loved Bond movies for a long time and was looking forward to this one, but was massively disappointed. They have pretty much turned Bond into a Batman/Bourne character. The modern action movie seems to feature a superhuman hero whose biggest fight was with his own past demons, in Batman it was completely pathetic, here a little less so, but it was still bad. The heroes in these movies are constantly whining about some past grievance, as are the villains. In this case man up guys, you're top secret agents with a license to kill, you don't think the job might have it's risks? Past Bonds seemed to naturally understand that, which is why Bond was such an exciting character. He knew could die at any moment but he maintained charm and cool at all times. This Bond was a robotic, and personality-less. He was like a Bourne programmed killer. Without personality in any of the characters, it's tough to care for them. The story was pretty standard comic book fare, maniacal bad guy with endless pool of resources whose only goal is to terrorize. The villain here was quite similar to the Bane/Joker style bad guy, only destruction is enough. That feels totally unrealistic, I can understand the making money, world domination aspiration, but revenge just feels a little bit pathetic. And that final showdown scene, wow you can totally tell they were gunning to get Sean Connery for that but he declined.