50 years of practice

Rating: 8/10 (8 November 2012)

Enough to recommend but after fifty years it could have been better. Great opening sequence but how did Bond survive? Don't ask?
What made the best Bond movies great were interesting antagonists. Here we get a blonde Javier Bardem complete with gay overtones. His performance and look was often distracting.
Plenty of action, lots of shooting and explosions. Bond runs a lot, through streets, over the ice, through the office. Run James run. It has the locations, the music, and a few bond girls to keep your attention.
In addition to the action there are some poignant moments and some back story that was never included in other Bond films. Even the title is new information.
Deliveries what you expect from a Bond film including the welcome assurance that James Bond will return to the big screen in the near future.
It's a tad long but it's the best of the Daniel Craig efforts.