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Saw it. Liked it alot. Packed a lot of movie into a short time. Best drama in an action film I've seen for a while. Without spoiling any specifics, I did think an early action sequence superseded subsequent action sort of defusing the climax. Also Eva Green == TEH HOTNESS.
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^I'd say the best since "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", and right up there with that one and the other two great Bonds -- "Goldfinger" and "From Russia With Love". I thought Timothy Dalton was great, but Craig comes closer to nailing the Bond of Fleming's novels than anyone, and provides the character with the most personality since Connery. It earned every bit of its 95% Rotten Tomatoes score.
quote:Originally posted by Shik: I will generally agree. I gave it about...an 88%, but then, I'm an crusty old man who wants actual books to be used as shooting scripts.
And the first Bond book doesn't count? (I haven't seen it yet, nor read the book, so I can't really compare the result.)
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What? Sorry BJ, I read that twice, and my dumb gland seems to be kicking in.
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Timo Johnson is right! Sort of.
My 12% deduction came from things like the updating to today from 1953 & the inclusion Dame M, the replacement of baccarat with poker, the lack of SMERSH, the not noting of Mathis as being part of the Deuxieme, moving the casino to Montenegro, & all the other things that were changed from the novel.
But hey. I'm just that way. At least this was muchly faithful. Some of them have NOTHING in common, like Moonraker & The Spy Who Loved Me.
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Yeah, but The Spy Who Loved Me was at least watchable. Moonraker had one or two good bits interspaced with large segments of nap time. Probably one of the, if not the worst IMO.
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