Majority of critics praise the newest 007 film
From the user 'Bondsum' on the Mi6 forum:
It's NOT true. There were no disruptions from CnB boycotters at the screening. I've just got back and everyone stayed glued to their seats, as did I. This ISN'T a review as that would take me too long to add spoilers, etc and I don't have the patience right now.
In short, the movie is GREAT. Yep, you heard right. And CM007 is wrong about the film being just good for the first 10 minutes and then starts to dip. I kept glancing at my watch and just to see this so-called watermark.... and it never came. Also, he was wrong about DC not being able to deliver the humour, what little there was of it, he passes with flying colours and is more sardonic in delivery. Just like Connery.
I believe he's the best Bond since the 60's, though not quite in the same mould. Imagine if you will if the producers had decided back in the early 70's not to take it in the light pantomime farce it descended into with Moore, and instead started him from scratch, pitching him more in the Dirty Harry league. That's what's different about this 007, he's more of a cold b*stard who kills with a detached, icy disregard for his prey. Much more so than Dalton did in LTK even.
The good news is there aren't any cheesy lines in this film. I didn't sniff one, and neither did anyone else. This is a more intelligent Bond than all the Brosnans put together with the best bits spliced as one and the duff bits cut out!!
Another thing I didn't agree on with CM007 was that this is Eva Green's film. Yeah, she's great, beautiful and engaging. She's also the best Bond girl to grace the screen since... well, in a long time, yet she doesn't steal the film from DC. Craig is very much the centre of this film, and I loved his take on it.
The reason why it's hard to compare him to Connery is down to the fact that this Bond does things that the censors would never have allowed back then, yet there's still a Connery vibe about him.
There's plenty of good things about CR that I have taken away with me, and am about to savour in due course. I'll be seeing it again, that's for sure. I also didn't cringe at any of the dialogue or performaces like I did when I first saw GE at a preview.
The general view I got from the audience was they liked it. I could tell the critics were muttering in positive interchanges, especially when Craig dispatches the enemy with a ruthless inner-calm, which he does quite a few times. No big spoiler there as we know this 007 is nastier.
Other improvements were M and the backstroy back at HQ. Gone are the walls of plasma screens and bunker-like surrounds. When the story cuts to London, we see a London I haven't seen in a Bond flick since the Moore years. Also, there's no cheesy dialogue between M and her colleagues when discussing or talking directly to 007. That I was so thankful about.
Anyway, if no one else writes a review then I might give it a go. Laughing
But I'll leave you with this for now.
This Bond is very different to the Moore/Brosnan era and for that I applaud it until my hands start to bleed.
Harmsway, Leon, Dog Bond, you're going to love this Bond.
Also, I noticed that it doesn't giveaway the title of Bond 22 at the end which is a bit sad. Never mind. Can't wait to see the next Craig Bond though.
Looks like this CNB rumour was just that - a rumour!
And the film seems to be great!
Edited by Qwerty, 06 November 2006 - 06:10 AM.
