I have to say, the first 30-odd minutes up to the intro credits were great. It felt like Daniel Craig was ending Bond with a bang, but the following two hours of the movie failed to deliver a single thrill, the only mildly entertaining scene being essentially a 30 minute Range Rover commercial. The remainder of the film was just a whole lot of talking and drama and frowning, just like the last couple Bond movies, and absolutely nothing to do with the character Ian Fleming created.
What a huge waste of Christoph Waltz, who could have been the best Bond villain ever, yet they literally gave him gibberish for lines and only one scene of actual screen time, which was hampered by bad make up. I'm sure he could have ad-libbed better dialogue than they wrote for him.
I don't care what the critics say, the Daniel Craig era of Bond movies has been by far the worst. Every movie has been more boring than the last, each a failed attempt to modernize the Bond role with human drama, which is missing the whole point, i.e. The appeal of Bond is his superhuman ability to surpass human drama. Bond is supposed to be an action hero circling the globe darting in and out of both danger and high society. He's slick, nothing sticks to him. The women he loves all die, he grits his teeth and moves on, all the while keeping the signature British stiff upper lip and dry sense of humor. Sure Bond was in need of some modernizing, gone are the days of it being socially acceptable for Sean Connery to slap and grab his way through every woman to walk on screen. But they have really sucked all the fun out of the character in the process.
If you go to see a Superman movie, you want to see him put on the cape, and you know, fly around and do Superman stuff. You don't want to see Superman mope his way through 2 1/2 hours of baby-mama drama and workplace scandal. The same goes for 007.
The Craig era has just really been a wet blanket on the franchise and I couldn't be happier to see it slip quietly into the past, not with a bang but a whimper.
It was a shame since Daniel Craig is a fine actor and made a great James Bond in every way, yet they hamstrung him with bad writing for every movie since Casino Royale.
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What a huge waste of Christoph Waltz, who could have been the best Bond villain ever, yet they literally gave him gibberish for lines and only one scene of actual screen time, which was hampered by bad make up. I'm sure he could have ad-libbed better dialogue than they wrote for him.
I don't care what the critics say, the Daniel Craig era of Bond movies has been by far the worst. Every movie has been more boring than the last, each a failed attempt to modernize the Bond role with human drama, which is missing the whole point, i.e. The appeal of Bond is his superhuman ability to surpass human drama. Bond is supposed to be an action hero circling the globe darting in and out of both danger and high society. He's slick, nothing sticks to him. The women he loves all die, he grits his teeth and moves on, all the while keeping the signature British stiff upper lip and dry sense of humor. Sure Bond was in need of some modernizing, gone are the days of it being socially acceptable for Sean Connery to slap and grab his way through every woman to walk on screen. But they have really sucked all the fun out of the character in the process.
If you go to see a Superman movie, you want to see him put on the cape, and you know, fly around and do Superman stuff. You don't want to see Superman mope his way through 2 1/2 hours of baby-mama drama and workplace scandal. The same goes for 007.
The Craig era has just really been a wet blanket on the franchise and I couldn't be happier to see it slip quietly into the past, not with a bang but a whimper.
It was a shame since Daniel Craig is a fine actor and made a great James Bond in every way, yet they hamstrung him with bad writing for every movie since Casino Royale.
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