I don't very much about Bond movies. Just putting that out there. I don't really like them. The formula (gadgets, nice car, hot babe who is possibly a femme fatale, exotic locales) is nice once or twice, but it seems to sap the joy of surprise out of the films. Ultimately, the movies seem to blend into each other, offering infinite variation which only serves to underline their basic sameness.
I like this movie a lot. It starts out really great. A black and white scene which imagines Bond as a nearly sociopathic killer (exactly the type of man you expect your government to actually put to good use) and even gives the audience credit enough to fill in an unfinished line for the joke. Pretty bold really.
But eventually it reverts back to a "Bond" film and gets progressively more boring and predictable but thankfully it ends in time to preserve it from getting plain boring.
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