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I saw this a couple of weeks ago and found it pretty horrible. Then again, I dislike the Bond films to no end.
Quoted from a discussion I was having about it recently.
"I watched this last night and man these are getting worse and worse looking. The ridiculous fights, the bad performances -especially from people that were supposed to be (half) Greek- but the plot takes the cake. About 4 times during that film you get the same thing: Bond gets chased by an organization but barely escapes, cut to him finding a clue, optionally bang a chick and lather, rinse repeat. That is pretty much the whole movie after the first 20 minutes or so. I caught myself thinking more times than I remember "who the *bleep* pays people to write these screenplays?" (yes I know it's probably a loose adaptation of Fleming's story but still).
Anyway, it's not even worth going into the complete and utter inaccuracy in every single action scene. Seriously, they just made the same action scene 5 times: Once with a car chase, then on foot, then during skiing, then in the sea and then climbing a mountain. Jesus!"
and from a different segment on the ridiculousness and inaccuracy of most the action scenes...
"How about the action sequences? In the most recent one I watched, Bond is trapped by some goons in the mountain and among them is the world champion in skiing and shooting. He easily gets away from them without breaking a sweat. The world freaking champion in ski shooting has you trapped in a mountain on skis. He has a gun and you don't. He has help and you are alone. He is not even hurt or captured. At the end of the scene, the villain picks up a motorcycle and throws it several meters away to him. How about earlier in the film when he manages to get away from two armored cars with a small Volkswagen Beetle that is not secret service issued and not enhanced in any way? That little thing has tumbled and been knocked over so much that it shouldn't be able to start after a couple of knocks, let alone outrun two faster cars. How about later on in the sea, when Bond is bleeding like crazy in the water, sharks swimming next to him and ignore the blood, but when a villain with a slight scratch falls overboard he is immediately devoured? Is Bond's blood shark resistant? Or when he says to the girl he is underwater with, that they shouldn't talk to conserve oxygen, but he keeps talking throughout the scene to make jokes or read out loud written instructions as he performs them for exposition?"