BOND IS BACK...almost

At the end of this month the new James Bond movie will hit the screens and already the hype has started - The Mail on Sunday has massive coverage and pictures of one character who dies covered in oil in a direct homage to the golden girl in Goldfinger.

Homage or rip off??????

I've high hopes for this film as I didn't really like Casino Royale as a Bond movie but thought it was a superb action film. However action films are ten a penny so please bring back the real James Bond. If I want an action movie I'll go see Rambo or Die Hard or Lethal Weapon or any of the others which took much from 007 in the first place. These days its seems that the Bond people have lost their way and now where the films once led the way they are now following - Casino Royale, when all is said and done, was a Bourne clone.


We want scantily clad females emerging from the sea not a skimpily clad, buffed up Daniel Craig. We want laughs, OTT villains and massive explosions. We want schoolboy humour and lewd cracks that would shame the Carry On team. We want Q and Moneypenny.

Still I'll keep an open mind and wait until I've seen the movie to pass judgement.


However from what I've read the film makers are so pleased with Casino Royale's success that they may be aiming for more of the same. Maybe part of the success was that the film had a new Bond and was riding on the back of the Pierce Brosnan films which were each more successful than the one before.




Still the Bond franchise will survive this movie if it's a success or not. However sooner or later they are going to have to go back to the formula that made the films what they were in the first place.


Plus Daniel Craig, fine actor that he is, just doesn't look like James Bond - he reminds me of Robert Shaw in From Russia with Love. He plays Bond as some sort of psychotic super cop who would be more at home drinking John Smiths' bitter than Vodka Martinis. People are screaming that Casino Royale was a return to Fleming but it isn't at all. In fact Casino Royale was further away from Fleming's original hero than the most extravengant of the Roger Moore instalements.



Only time will tell.....