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Review by Mike Thunders:
November 20th, 2008Well, to start it off, the new theme song collaboration is an irrational duo (Jack White and Alicia Keys?). Now that I got that out of the way, DO NOT BLAME CRAIG FOR ANYTHING THAT IRKS YOU IN THIS FILM!!
He is without a doubt one of the most innovative of the Bond actors, thanks to his bony facial features, ripped body, and unforgettable toughness (this IS Bond when he was BECOMING the MI6 agent we all love).
But this is a different Bond film that is classified to be a “revenge” movie, so Bond is mostly focused on discovering more secrets on Vesper’s betrayal and the people behind it. What this film did not accomplish was to write a very good plot: Dominic Greene, the “villian” of the film, was weak and did not really have people loathing him like the usual Bond villian would.
Also, any Bond bluff will instantly feel nostalgic at the sight of a Bond film with less gadgets, less grotesque villians, less romps, etc. But what fans should understand is that a entirely new concept was being tested in this film: realism. They wanted to make a new bond that fought and shot pistols more than a Bond that uses fictuous gadgets and Greene was to represent the evils in society instead of the traditional grotesque villian, as aforementioned.
Nonetheless, if you are a first-timer to the Bond series, the film is without a doubt one of THE most action-packed Bond films of all time. The plot, despite being mediocre, is still comprehensible.