They made the Heineken commercial into a movie

Rating: 7/10 (14 November 2015)

A lot of the classic Bond is in this film: the muscular unbeatable henchman, the mountain clinic, the psychotic gentleman villain striking from the shadows, a bit of car tech, the Bond girl and, most of all, Christoph Waltz as Blofeld. James Bond has to handle it all by himself again, putting the entire British intelligence apparatus in question, but hey, it's a Bond film. Or is it?
When I left the film I felt severely disappointed, even if I couldn't quite say why. It didn't really feel like a James bond film. Funny enough, the Bond era that the movie was remaking is one that didn't feel much like Bond either: Lazenby's only film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. However the similarities are drowned in the differences of the completely rewritten story.
What we certainly get in the end is a Bond that refuses to kill and leaves the service for love. Back when, he lived to regret that decision, probably he will do the same in the next film from the franchise. But even without that, it still felt off: the young Q, the battle between the new M and the even newer C, the Bond car that had no gadgets and was destroyed in a few car chase scenes that were mild by the standards of driving in Rome, the limited interaction between the cardboard Bond girl and James. Somehow it all felt really off.
That doesn't mean the film is not enjoyable, Daniel Craig is still fantastic in portraying 007 and the action scenes are quite fun. With all that, I felt that the spirit of the James Bond movie was somehow violated. I hope you will disagree with me when you watch the film for yourselves.