A failed mission!

Rating: 4/10 (13 November 2012)

While it had the hype and numerous rave reviews, I must say my wife and I were very disappointed in this Bond effort. Having been a teen when Dr. No hit the movie screens, I became a Bond fan for life...well, for most of them. This show started off like the previous two -- wall to wall action in an extended fight/chase scene. From that point it became more like a 24 Hours TV series, except it lacked the pace or action. Overall, the villain was too perfect in his planning and Bond was helpless to stop him. With a purposed hit during a hearing with the PM and no one is ready for the bad guys??? The villain has people waiting for him or working for him at ever avenue ... for what? Money? Fear? Political means? No explanation as to why so many follow this insane villain blindly. But in the end, there's the very fact that Bond fails miserably in his mission. By then we were just hoping the overly drug out movie would end. I wonder what movie those giving 7-10 stars saw. This Bond rates as one of the poorest, longest and most unsatisfactory of this great series.