Hyper-masculine action hero James Bond reluctantly agrees to save the world from bad people who want to kill everybody.
I could have anticipated how banal and formulaic this is. Elaborate, hollow, convoluted and meaningless action set pieces that test the limits of credulity and give you no reason to care about the result of them, though it's always obvious that no harm can come to Bond. The sincere attempts at emotional feeling are merely embarrassing and the action is slick to the point of translucency. A concerted effort to hit all the familiar points and no desire to stretch the formula that has worked for so long. It contains a number of homages to itself, reminding us that we're watching a film that has been remade every few years since the early '60s.
I could have anticipated how banal and formulaic this is. Elaborate, hollow, convoluted and meaningless action set pieces that test the limits of credulity and give you no reason to care about the result of them, though it's always obvious that no harm can come to Bond. The sincere attempts at emotional feeling are merely embarrassing and the action is slick to the point of translucency. A concerted effort to hit all the familiar points and no desire to stretch the formula that has worked for so long. It contains a number of homages to itself, reminding us that we're watching a film that has been remade every few years since the early '60s.