fresh: This is the best bond movie I've seen. It's a top notch thriller in its own right but unlike most other Bond films, it works also as a charachter study. For the first time, James Bond is more interesting than the villain, and the big impetus for the movie is not gadgets and explosions and world takeovers. It's James bond himself. He's interesting enough to carry the movie all by himself. This is evident when the movie calms down halfway to conversations between Daniel Craig, the new bond, and Eva Green, a three dimensional bond girl, and of course a poker table. Just watching these people talk is as enjoyable as the great chase scene in the beginning. It probably helped alot to have an Oscar winning writer, Paul Haggis, help out with the script.
The director, a man named Martin Campbell, I have never heard before. But this guy is legitimate. Whether it's the black and white opening to the druggy poisoning sequence, he has some unique and great ways of telling the story. I hope he directs another bond movie, and I plan to look him up and see his other movies.
The only complaint I have is the soundtrack. There is a great Bond theme which they don't use till the credits. To not use that song is unfathomable. They're using subpar musical sequences during the entire film when the trademark Bond theme is a thousand times better. Why they didn't use it during the first chase scene boggles my mind. It would have made the fantastic sequence super fantastic. oh well. Although this movie probably won't get much attention from the academy because these movies usually don't. It will definitely win a ton of awards at the MTV movie awards. (Best fight, Best villain, best actor, etc.) And I can say this, These guys deserve all that golden popcorn.
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