I watched this new Bond with interest while I was in the theater (mostly because of Craig and Dench) but the longer I'm out, the more I hate it. This was not a Bond movie. Why spend over 40 years building a franchise and then knock it's feet out from under it. There is too much to comment on in full paragraphs so here's the list:
Bond is not Wolverine or Terminator. The things that happened to Bond in this movie would kill any man...let's keep it real.
Along those lines: No man can stay awake for that long and not start hallucinating and have walking sleep moments (which could have been interesting)
NO MORE SHAKY CAM! Bond fight scenes should be thrilling, not a blur of skin, metal and shattering glass. Why spend all that money setting up shots and then not let the audience see it?
Bond would not dump a fellow agent/friend in a dumpster. At least he could have made a funeral pyre out of it.
Why oh why do we have soooo many bad guys/enemies/sub-plots? Bolivian dictators, French mercenaries, Quantum group(Inc.)head honchos, knife wielding geologists?, turn-coat CIA agents, turn-coat British agents, bad boyfriends?, bad fathers (that still have to be avenged???), Alpha Romero driving bad guys, fighter plane pilots, etc. etc.
Why would the agency send a secretary to stop one of their wildest agents from leaving town? And how did that same secretary have time to write a "run" note when she was so busy dying?
Why was this mousy French guy any match for Bond? He was wearing freaking loafers!
Why would Bond just sit there in a burning room contemplating suicide when he just ran and jumped through flames to get there?
Why can't Bolivians trace the water back and take out the dam with sledgehammers?
Couldn't the plot had a little more dastardly...like the mercenary was going to poison the world's drinking water so his supply would become liquid gold? Not just dry up a region in Bolivia so you can charge "twice as much" as the dictator was paying before???
Oh, well.
Let's get back to the old Bond movies. I actually don't mind Craig as Bond but these bad plots and blurry direction are ruining my favorite movie treat.
Bond is not Wolverine or Terminator. The things that happened to Bond in this movie would kill any man...let's keep it real.
Along those lines: No man can stay awake for that long and not start hallucinating and have walking sleep moments (which could have been interesting)
NO MORE SHAKY CAM! Bond fight scenes should be thrilling, not a blur of skin, metal and shattering glass. Why spend all that money setting up shots and then not let the audience see it?
Bond would not dump a fellow agent/friend in a dumpster. At least he could have made a funeral pyre out of it.
Why oh why do we have soooo many bad guys/enemies/sub-plots? Bolivian dictators, French mercenaries, Quantum group(Inc.)head honchos, knife wielding geologists?, turn-coat CIA agents, turn-coat British agents, bad boyfriends?, bad fathers (that still have to be avenged???), Alpha Romero driving bad guys, fighter plane pilots, etc. etc.
Why would the agency send a secretary to stop one of their wildest agents from leaving town? And how did that same secretary have time to write a "run" note when she was so busy dying?
Why was this mousy French guy any match for Bond? He was wearing freaking loafers!
Why would Bond just sit there in a burning room contemplating suicide when he just ran and jumped through flames to get there?
Why can't Bolivians trace the water back and take out the dam with sledgehammers?
Couldn't the plot had a little more dastardly...like the mercenary was going to poison the world's drinking water so his supply would become liquid gold? Not just dry up a region in Bolivia so you can charge "twice as much" as the dictator was paying before???
Oh, well.
Let's get back to the old Bond movies. I actually don't mind Craig as Bond but these bad plots and blurry direction are ruining my favorite movie treat.