OMG it was Blah!!

Rating: 4/10 (10 November 2012)

There wasn't any interesting action. Fighting on top of a train? That hasn't been done. OK the backhoe bit was good, and I get that it must be hard to come up with new ideas, but train-wrassling was as good as it got in this Bond installment. Q was bland and there were no new cool gadgets. They even lampshaded the lack, but it didn't really make up for it. While the villain was well-played and sympathetic, the stakes weren't very high. Bond's 'death' was kind of squandered. We aren't left to wonder if or how he survived, or even shown how. He just pops up again looking quite hale and with an interesting scar. They didn't create any sort of peril which his resurrection can uniquely deal with. I just found it very unsatisfying and about 40 minutes too long.