Just came back from seeing the latest instalment of Bond. The truth is that I actually really enjoyed this movie, for all the reasons that I think a lot of people didn’t enjoy the movie. For me there was only one ‘bollocks’ Bond movie moment (the parachute scene) that made me groan a bit and then the rest of it was just pretty hard hitting action. There is a lot to like in this movie if you’re interested in some Bond character development (so he’s not just a womanising, gin drinking, gadget using, one-liner throwing, 2-D character. What we get here is something more refined, something slightly more believable (as much as that is possible in a Bond movie). There are elements in the story that just don’t really stack up for me. Mainly the water dam plotpoint seemed far too weak a motivation for the ultimate ‘villains’. The scene in Austria was incredibly clever and I thought the execution of that scene was very well done.

Final word, product placement wasn’t as annoying as it is in most other Bond movies. Usually it’s painfully obvious, whereas in this case although there was product placement, it wasn’t as bad as all the good guys drive a BMW and all the bad guys drive a Mercedes.

★ ★ ★ ½ out of ★ ★ ★ ★ ★