This new Bond is, at 37, far too young for the role. A Bond actor has to be at least 50. The only proper James Bond was Roger Moore. Piers Brosnan - too Irish, Sean Connery - too Scottish/bald, Timothy Dalton - too Welsh, George Lazenby - too shit, not to mention Australian.
Not only that, Moore's bond fought the best baddies: that voodoo bloke, a fat chinese man with a metal top hat, that little fucker off Fantasy Island and a lanky retard with terrible dental work.
Then again, who cares anyway, since Bond films are always fucking shit. The plot is always the same. A pantomine villain with plans for world domination, some gadgets, a car chase, a female character who Bond ends up in bed with. These things write themselves.
There's enough films now simply to cut together random scenes, like one of those mission statement generators, and you could have another good dozen films at least. They did this with the Carry On back catalogue, continuing to make seemingly new films long after most of the cast had died. The shit sit-coms 'Allo 'Allo and Hi de Hi employed a similar trick, each clocking up over 1000 episodes from a pool of less than 10 hours worth of scenes, and only a handful of jokes.
Bond films have become less exciting, not because they are formulaic, but because times have moved on. In the Sixties, no fucker had been anywhere, so using a Casino in Monte-Carlo, or a bar in Acapulco as a location seemed to be really exotic and sophisticated. Nowadays everybody can afford to go to the Carribean on a cheap package holiday for pikeys, so it's just not that exciting anymore. You're much more likely to meet trailer trash or a pair of dimwitted estate-chavs from Droitwich in a Casino than an international agent.
