This is a made-for-TV James Bond. So is it a bad thing? I don't think so, because I loved it.
The first 20 minutes are catchy and hot, as if it's a good cinematic movie. The plot is so smart; where ultra-secret service unit got disbanded after the cold war, several of its members turn renegade, and there is a plot to steal nuclear weapons to sell to drug dealers, and their only righteous patriotic, and funny, member has to stop them. (Miguel Ferrer) was so right as the villain. And the action sequences are fine; knowing that it's a TV movie after all.
It's not a made-for-TV James Bond only. In fact, it's more like James Belushi as Bond; where he's plump, unsophisticated, jocose, none-violent, not to mention being fatherly too (a matter that Bond didn't approach ever). It's like let the normal TV viewer see himself as Bond once in a life time.
But, on the other hand, it tried to be international, with no dazzling images shown. And it tried to be suspenseful, but I thought its second half was less tight.
Finally, name one Bond where: "M" is played by (Peter Boyle) having the name of (Huggins) the teacher in My Fair Lady, there is no "Q" at all, the lead *morally* gives an advise about a father and son's reunion, and ends up miserably playing chess with a kid?! I know, it's (Royce)!
The first 20 minutes are catchy and hot, as if it's a good cinematic movie. The plot is so smart; where ultra-secret service unit got disbanded after the cold war, several of its members turn renegade, and there is a plot to steal nuclear weapons to sell to drug dealers, and their only righteous patriotic, and funny, member has to stop them. (Miguel Ferrer) was so right as the villain. And the action sequences are fine; knowing that it's a TV movie after all.
It's not a made-for-TV James Bond only. In fact, it's more like James Belushi as Bond; where he's plump, unsophisticated, jocose, none-violent, not to mention being fatherly too (a matter that Bond didn't approach ever). It's like let the normal TV viewer see himself as Bond once in a life time.
But, on the other hand, it tried to be international, with no dazzling images shown. And it tried to be suspenseful, but I thought its second half was less tight.
Finally, name one Bond where: "M" is played by (Peter Boyle) having the name of (Huggins) the teacher in My Fair Lady, there is no "Q" at all, the lead *morally* gives an advise about a father and son's reunion, and ends up miserably playing chess with a kid?! I know, it's (Royce)!