Not good enough Mr Mendes.

Rating: 7/10 (18 November 2012)

Not as good as the hype says. Craig is as dependable as ever, but get on with the next movie as time is not on your side. Hope he can hold on for another movie. The usual formula of car chases, boring gambling and explosions held together by a paper-thin plot. So many opportunities for the baddie to kill M, why pass them up? Why did Bond draw the baddie to Scotland when he was so unprepared? Why make great show of some assassin cutting through plate glass to poke a gun through to easily shoot through the same plate glass in the building opposite? Why put Bond in Norman Wisdom's jacket? - not going to frighten anyone! References to earlier Bond movies were read as lack of originality. And finally - would M drink product-placed cognac from a whisky tumbler? I think not! The Scottish house looked like a cheap model and probably was. Especially in view of the lavish budget, not good enough Mr Mendes, must do better.