The good outweighs the bad

Rating: 9/10 (11 November 2012)

No matter what, I gave this film a high score because what it did well, it did VERY well and it more than made up for the things I hated about it.
Positive - for the 50th anniversary, this film does a fantastic job at playing homage to all the original films from the obvious, right down to the smallest of detail that may be missed. The movie takes Craig's Bond full circle in character development through 3 films (from rough inexperienced, through angry and vengeful) right into the 'final version' of his Bond's character and gently depositing him in Connery's shoes. The movie is not in my opinion a traditional bond flick, but that in it's own respect is what I actually like about it (QoS was more traditional). We get an insight into his soul and where he comes from. Character introductions were brilliant.
Negative - Bond villain was terrible. Bond girl (if that's what you call her) was even worse. Eve his fellow agent was more of a Bond girl than anything, and though beautiful (and no offense intended - you will understand at the end) was the wrong (in my opinion), er, nationality. Q was way to young to be believable despite the fact that they try to excuse it in the film. And his TWO gadgets, well, apparently we just don't use gadgets anymore . And the story: WEAK. Old plot device told poorly (and they almost allude to that in the story itself).