The Names Bond, Mumbles Bond!

Rating: 2/10 (12 November 2012)

I was very excited to see a new Bond flick. I went on a Monday so the crowds would be lower, but even still, the theatre was still almost full from with true Bond fans.
It started off pretty exciting, with the classic theme in the opening shot. You really didn't know what was happening as Daniel Craig walks down the hallway carrying his PPK. As I moved through this film, I was excited waiting for it to get better, but on the other hand after I got home I decided to write this review.
I really liked some of the aspects in this new instalment, but it just doesn't feel like a Bond film to me anymore, the whole serious Bond re-imaged version doesn't do anything for me. I kind of liked Casino Royale, it was a a different take on the franchise, but still, I think the "Craig's" Bond is a little too dark. Not cheery, silly at times, and exciting like the old films. I love the look of Daniel Craig as Bond, but I just don't like his character's style.
I find also that he seems to mumble and talk softly in a deep serious voice, half the time I have to think about what he just said. Everyone else around him speaks clearly, but when he talks, it's like listening to a person covering up their mouth with ones hand.
I have seen all Daniel Craig's other films and don't have a problem, but when he plays Bond, all I hear is blah blah Blah Blah blah! The Bond girls didn't feel like Bond girls, the villain Javier Bardem was not too bad, his little virus schemes were pretty cool, but that's also another down turn of this film, you would think the MI6 would be more intelligent in this instalment with the addition of Q, he acts like a computer genius but still doesn't realize that the Virus Hack that triggers all these situations is the fact of tracking the villain, So every time they crack the code something bad happens. You would think they would be more intelligent than this, it's the MI6! In the end I gave it a 2 out of 10, just for the acting, I'd say Quantum of Solace was better, and more entertaining.
Kind of sad for the 50th Anniversary. The action scenes were acceptable and entertaining, I had no feelings for the Bond girls, pretty plain and mediocre, Q had nothing to offer, It seemed all mixed up with technology, using prehistoric gadgets with new technology, the ending was also overlapping into the "Connery" years.
I don't feel that this reboot, re-image, whatever you want to call it is a good idea. Daniel Craig is a very great performer, but as Bond, he has the look, but no idea how to be him. I don't think it was his fault, I think that had to do with the writer. I know the original novels were more serious, but that's not the point, they filmed Bond all the way up to Craig's version as a spy that gets the job done, is silly at times, also can be serious.
I think that's what the studios want when they first took the novel and put it to film, they wanted something at the time that people would get. This Bond is just drowned out by all the other spy films of late, and will probably be forgotten. The Series has ran out of steam after Brosnan and will never be the same. But they try to re-invent Bond, well why fix something that isn't broke? The credits say "James Bond will return". I hope not, this re-image ruined it, and just makes me want to go back and watch the old films.
Also a downside is the fact that Bond doesn't save anyone in this film, he just doesn't get the job done. The Bond girl is killed stupidly and M dies. Pointless!