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I really liked the movie.
Now, I always have liked Daniel Craig and I was pleased when they tapped him for the new Bond. And I always thought he had a nice physique -- sort of the lean, trim musculature you associate with what-Brits-call-football-
and-Americans-call-soccer
. But WOW, talk about buffing up for a film. Whoa, Nellie, did that boy look good!
Now rest assured, nothing would alter my allegiance to the Single Most Appealing Specimen of Masculinity in the Known Universe (24's Kiefer Sutherland), but I have got to say it -- Daniel Craig is HOT!
And Lord Knows, he needed to be in great shape for this film; they run his (very attractive) butt off. Instead of driving a car or a motor boat, he runs...and jumps...and runs some more. The opening chase must be fifteen minutes, AND IT'S ALL ON FOOT!
The movie still has a lot of clever stuff in it, but it's smart-clever not wisecrack-clever. It was a little long, but that was needed to set up the ending, so it didn't bother me. I liked the poker playing, and anybody who says "yeah, but nobody gets cards like that" has never watched professional poker tournaments. Heck, the movie only showed maybe seven hands over what was supposed to be eight hours of play -- of course it would be the big "change the whole course of the game" hands where three or four people had terrific poker hands upon which they would bet massive amounts.
I know a lot of people are complaining that this isn't a "Bond Film" because there aren't absurd gadgets and elaborate car chases and ridiculous stunts and sophomoric double-entendres and ba-da-boom "Bond girls"... Thank god! All that crap was making Bond pictures pretty damn silly and annoying. This is Back-To-Basics Action stuff. No exploding pens, no wrist watches with 100 meters of rappelling line, no belt buckles that turn into buzz saws....
The one thing I did think wasn't up to the usual mark was the Opening Credit sequence, especially the song which was distinctly not-memorable (or even hum-able). But if I have to give up the catchy Song in order to get a far-superior movie, so be it. After all, the British don't have Jack Bauer, they need a kick-ass James Bond.
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