OK, bear in mind that I was dragged to see this by C, but here are my views...
1. Daniel Craig has had a charisma bypass in this. I just didn't feel him at all. I am usually one to cry at the drop of a hat for a sad bit in a film, but not a drop welled up, when we were supposed to feel for him.
2. The usual stupid impossible stunts occur, but a couple weren't that well filmed. The foot chase of a tanker showed the tanker at two different speeds in two different camera angles, and the landing from a high jump onto a sandy roof had the footmarks from previous takes still on it.
3. The story doesn't tie together. I can't go into why without giving the whole film plot, but the final "twist" just does not work at all. If it were the explanation then the film could have ended an hour previously by the main characters doing exactly what they did, but earlier. It also required you to not query some gaping holes....
4. It was waaay too long, something like 2 1/2 hours. There are three main sections to the film and each could have done with some tidying up to keep the pace.
5. M & HQ were underused - this was all about Bond working alone and it lost some of it's class for it.
6. Product bloody placement - everything was Sony Sony Sony...I know tht Columbia are owned by Sony but couldn't they have been a little more subtle? And speaking of subtle..
7... Daniel Craig's "blue eyes", that are actually a nice pale blue are colourised in several scenes to a ridiculous level of blue. Look out especially in the night-driving scene when he is gunning it in the Aston Martin.
8. Since when did Bond play Hold 'em Poker? Since the yanks got hold of him, I guess?
9. No Q, no gadgets, no real technology - oh, apart from that available from Sony in all good electronics shops now - see point 6
On the plus side the baddie was a fittingly chill-some baddie, Le Chiffre, played by some Danish dude.
