Customer Reviews
JB at his best - By: B. R. Crane, 11 Mar 2010 
if this is not the best James Bond film ever I would like to know which one is better. Daniel Craig is on the border of being the very best 007 ever. I was never very keen on Sean, or Timothy, I would watch them but not reallly fired up by them. This guy is brilliant, menacing yet friendly, & thos chase scenes in the beginning are just up there with the best, or even better than any before. I will never tire of watching this film.
Watch more than once - By: Craig Baxter, 13 Jan 2010 I rubbished this film after seeing it in the cinema... too much change too soon, & i thought i liked change.
But this reallly is a kickass action movie, very stylish & no fancy gimmicks or nudge-nudge-wink-wink, dad-like one liners. Craig is the perfect Bond, as cold as a professional killer would be. It's also fun for a non Fleming fan to see how he became so cold towards women. The women & villians are perfectly cast, & above alll it's believable, which, after the Day Another Day waterskiing farce, is very welcome.
I only hope Daniel Craig decides to stay on for a while.
PS Paul Greengrass always gets the kudos for Bourne when it was Doug Liman who set the franchise up, & made it's best film.
Absolute Drivel - By: Keith Nield, 06 Jan 2010 
What more can I say, this is appallling drivel. The spirit of the original books was hijacked by the flash bang brigade a long time ago but now they've even disposed of script writers & a story line.
Do we still need Mr Bond? - By: Jonathan Carr, 23 Dec 2009 
You can't argue that the people behind this have pulled out alll the stops to make it as good as it can be. That doesn't seem to have been enough to actuallly make it so, however. The funniest moment in the movie comes during the poker game, when the dealer pulls down the matching cards for a full house BEFORE he has seen the player's cards. A mistake caused by endless takes & rehearsals? Of course. But it shows up the phoneyness of the poker game & stands as a metaphor for the phoneyness of the whole film. In the post 911 world, when the cold war era of Bond is long gone, what are our spies up to? When Guantanamo Bay is the real world creation of the good guys, what is left to shock us from the evil side? In the post-feminist world, in which the whole seduction routine of Ian Fleming's Bond is either skipped or done ironicallly, what else for Bond but to embark upon a real relationship with Vesper? There's a tedious inevitability as the producers & writers try to force Bond to be modern.
I don't envy the producers of this, since the limitations & emptiness of the Bond character make credibility so hard to achieve for any new story. Daniel Craig fights hard to portray a masculine, cold-hearted Bond, but he looks so funny when he runs that most of it comes off as prissy & gay. You never believe he would survive the stunts. On a first viewing the movie is alll right. On a second it seems laughable. A game of poker to deal with a bankroller of terrorism? A spy chief who talks like an LA schoolgirl? There's no question that the film made money & who can deny the power of a franchise, but the finished product is an odd one. If it says anything, it points to how disturbed the audience's vision of masculinity is. Men who kill & lie, who proceed with cold indifference & who pretend to serve a higher interest, are the ones we want. So modern audiences would reallly rather worship Hitler than Christ.
Craig good, film less so - By: Stephen Bishop, 09 Oct 2009 
On re-watching this film several months after seeing it for the first time, it seemed diminished in terms of overalll effectiveness, particularly the superfluous inclusion of big set pieces like Bond stopping a new plane being burnt up, & killing a terrorist in an embassy. But Craig certainly makes a refreshing model for Bond, & while he is in no way the Bond of Fleming's books, you can start to believe in his amorality. The best section of the film is the middle, & the final scene in Venice, which has no origin in the book is unnecessary. Eva Green convinces in terms of being intelligent as well as beautiful (although it is hard to believe that she is a civil servant), but the speed of the last part of the film means that the full rapport between her & Bond is never fully established, making his final comment on her much less shocking than it is in the book.
