Daniel Craig is no Bond

Saw Quantum of Solace with my wife. Daniel Craig is no Bond, I’m sorry to say.

The last Bond was Pierce Brosnan. He was the ultimate spy, glamorous, elegant, super-efficient—-in other words, nothing like a real spy. We watched Bond movies like fairy-tales, because that’s exactly what they were. Laser-equipped satellites, tanks, liquid nitrogen, huge antennas, stealth boats, spaceships, and all those cool and wacky gadgets Q had supplied that you just couldn’t buy in a shop, created enjoyable movie experience.

Now, it is just another day in the hard life of a mundane special agent. Q is nowhere to be found, replaced with lots of product placement. M is tired of looking at ever-changing Bond (“Has he regenerated again? Oh wait, wrong show”). The plot was about water?! Great. Looked like a bunch of separate clips hastily thrown together, rather than a coherent story.

The gadgets? OK, that one was Microsoft Surface, you can have one for what, $16000? And Bond’s phone, Sony Ericsson?! My iPhone is way cooler.

Severely disappointed. The trainwreck that was Star Wars Episode I (and II, and III) comes to mind.