Haven't gone through the forum properly so don't know if anyone else has posted a review, so will just throw in my two cents.
(Apologies in advance for how poorly written this is!)
This flick came out here (Ireland) and in the UK on October 31st, and I saw it on Sunday night, and came out of the cinema... disappointed.
Its a pretty enjoyable action film, yes, its better than something like Die Another Day, but it doesn't come any where near the heights that Casino Royale hit.
It feels like the dramatic scenes and the action scenes come from two completely different films, a real case of the director leaving the action sequences to the second unit director.
Where as in Casino Royale the action scenes had an emotional, and almost physical resonance (when some one got hit, you winced, it looked like it hurt) here there is no sense of that physicality its all just happening.
The opening chase scene is fantastic, one of the best I've seen in the last few years, but other action scenes border on boring, the dogfight (not a spoiler its in the trailer) is just pointless, I read somewhere that the director wanted to have an action scene set in each element, so there are fights on land, an aerial dogfight, a chase on water, and a fight scene in a burning building, so the dogfight just feels like its thrown in there so it can be checked off. The ending of the aerial sequence is frankly ridiculous, yes I know its a Bond film, but Casino Royale tried to ground the series in a somewhat realistic world.
I realise the above is largely negative, so feel I should point out that I did enjoy the film, but I won't be watching it again and again like I did with Casino Royale. Oh by the way, the film references events and characters from Casino Royale heavily, so I wouldn't recommend seeing it if you haven't seen Daniel Craig's first outing as Bond!
