The younger the kid, the more they enjoyed this fast paced series of chases and fights, lacking any plot connection. It felt as though one’s head should be on a swivel to be able to keep up with what was going on, even though it didn’t make any sense most of the time.

There could have been so much more development with the plot: M’s relationship with Bond, why we found ourselves in Haiti, Bolivia, remote desert resort, flying a DC-3, etc. It was a jumble for the sake of singular events of action… I felt that feeling of a lackluster effort from the opening car chase seen throughout the entire mess.

The action sequences I can agree they reflect too much of the Bourne school of movies and too jumpy.

That said I love how they are slowly playing out the plot and making you pay attention to understand the plot. I like that they are only slow spoon feeding us this mysterious villian group without anything to go on. It is far more believable and logical that they won’t suddenly have all the answers and that the audience expects it means you have gotten to used to the spoon feed plots of Hollywood. The Opera scene was great!

The darker gritter feel is alot closer to a book Bond than we have had and I am really enjoying the ride.

and then i saw QoS. *sigh*. maybe it’s just the sophomore jinx – i hope so – but QoS is 15% the movie that casino royale was. gigantic plot holes; glamorous locations like, oh, *haiti*, and the nazca desert (wow!!!); lots of the deadly “plot development is too hard! let’s just blow up a big ol’ building” incompetent director syndrome; and……right off the bat at the start of the movie….

they’ve got craig doing the same tired, stupid, roger moore/pierce brosnan idiocy of “bond manages not to get shot by the guy shooting automatic weapons at him from close range by *ducking the bullets*”. baaaaad omen, folks.

Frankly the Bond series, while mostly entertaining, were always pure camp, and that angle should have been left to die when Connery left. He pulled it off, and none of the successors could even come close to delivering those cheeseball lines. At least they realized this and took it in a new direction with Craig. Yeah, the plot had some major WTF, but as pure action movies go, this was pretty good.

So the Bond films are now borrowing their plots from such cinematic blockbusters as The Tuxedo?

At least Jackie Chan knows how to choreograph a fight scene.

I enjoyed QoS in the moment, but I was grateful for the exegesis of its Byzantine plot posted (already!) on Wikipedia.

I though I was the only person on the planet that dislikes that style. Yuk!

T.C.