Movie Steak

Hmmm. I want to slate this movie. I want to really lay into it. But I don’t think I can. Because it’s a lot of the things Bond should be.

Let’s start with Daniel Craig. He was a good Bond. A very good Bond. Looking back I am becoming more and more impressed with his performance.

The bad guy? To be honest I didn’t feel there was a traditional bad guy. He wasn’t that bad, he was just a cog in the machine of evil, not the top of it like they are usually are. And he didn’t have some grand plan for world domination either, he was just some guy that helps terrorists.

The gadgets? They said they were missing from the film. They weren’t, though there were only a few of them.

What really annoyed me was that this was supposed to be the first Bond, back to the start. If so, why did they have k800i phones, TFT monitors and Sony Vaio laptops everywhere? It was stupid.

Plus sponsorship was a bit over the top. Lingering shots of the Ford badges on cars and Vaio engravings on laptops didn’t make the product placement the most subtle attempt ever.

So the bottom line is this. It’s an average Bond movies. Some of it’s better than normal, some of it is just bad film making. It averages out to be a fairly average Bond movie.

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