Barden was class, Bond was not

Rating: 3/10 (31 October 2012)

For the love of bond, don't go see this movie. The only way we can try to save bond is to ensure this bond flops, but I fear the marketing machine may have already won that battle. I was already expecting some great things after reading the numerous "best bond ever" reviews here, but it now seems more likely these are fake reviews. As for the 8.4 score, I wouldn't be surprised to see that plummet shortly.
You may ask "why should I avoid bond to save him?" I'll tell you why, because the sponsorship, product placement and general commercialisation of the bond franchise is what's killing bond. It's as if it's driving the story - Enter Bond....Bond looks at omega watch, Bond plays with vaio laptop, Bond plays with Sony phone.
The story was so poor this film would not have made cinema release if it wasn't bond.
Lastly, I've heard people say this is bond "back" implying this bond is somehow closer to the original Connery and Moore movies - that is soo far from the truth - I don't want to give anything away but if I said name 3 things that exemplify bond you would struggle to find more than 3 minutes of them in this film. I can't stress how bad this movie is. Peace