Dec 04, 2008 03:56 PM
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(Updated Dec 04, 2008 03:57 PM)
Yes i did watch this movie with a negative bias.
I knew when i watched casino royale that the new guys in charge of bondhas purposely changed as much as they could about the franchise withintent of widening its audience under the guise that bond had to changewith the times.
And even though i normally don't read normally read reviews before i watch a movie, in this case i made an exception because bond is one favourite franchises (others include the original star wars, indianajones, and other classics of the 70s and 80s).
And when i the reviews confirmed my suspicions about almost every sacred relic in the bond franchisee being destroyed i made up my mind not to see this movie. But humans are self destructive and i found myself in a theatre watching this movie.
When bond didn't pounce and shoot at the beginning of the movie i knewi was in trouble. Without getting into details its safe to say almost every bondstereotype and signatures have been destroyed in this movie.
Its been said before and i repeat that this movie feels more like thebourne series than bond series, (which were very ordinary filmscompared to the books), which is no surprise considering that so manypeople from those movies find themselves here.
The length allows for no storytelling and it feels like a chapter in abook rather than an entire story.
The lesser said about the villain the better gone are the days of thebond super villains who inspired as much interest as did bond, there isan attempt to resurrect spectre in this movie but given the new teamsruthless attempts at changing everything i don't see many positivesthere either.
The villain feels like a puny lackey than a menacing ganglord whosworthy of bond.
And they've taken out the interesting and powerful strongman away too.
I can keep on raving about how the makers have a bigger bourne hangoverthan making a bond film but will require pages and cause an emotionalbrakedown.
So lets get to the good parts.
Miss fields looks gorgeous but is compensated to some degree by thenormally vexing olga looking ordinary.
Even though the action scenes feel like bond some of them are quitegood especially if you like the shaky camera which im not too found off. The acting is top class as far as standalone acting goes but lacks the flamboyance and flare that came to be associated with bond. Not a single character can be termed as interesting.
I'm still complaining it seems to straight to the conclusion. For the classical romantics this movie is a big disappointment. For those who celebrate change regardless of its results this is a good movie. For those who watch it like any other movie its merely ok. Please proceed with extreme caution if you fall in the first category.
-s bond is dead, lousy villains, no character is interesting, no storytelling.
+/-s shaky camera, how much change is good????.
+s good acting for any other movie, some good action scenes.
Total 4/10 ( factoring in the fact that it fell below my expectations, however if i fully factor in how much this movie has disturbed me i would have given a much lower rating, please watch this movie as any other spy action flick if you wish to derive maximum pleasure from it, i still wish though i hadn't watched this film).
