[LivinLOS]

I went on opening night with bro and girls.. Had hell to get 2 love seats for the 4 of us..

I went in really wanting to like it.. I think Craig has the potential to be a great bond.. Even perhaps (one of) the best (I liked Brosnan but as said Bond was really losing its way.. Goldeneye was ok).. Fave villian has to be Coltraine, loved how he so enjoyed being bad, eating caviar with ******s on each knee.

Massive turn off to the sony promotion.. Product placement was one thing but this was bond with his sony phone, hooking up with his chick with her sony phone, using a sony laptop to look at a sony flat screen while she photo'ed it with a sony digicam.. sony sony SONY !!! By the end I was really sick of this, it wasnt subtle it was ramming sony logo at you non stop, I didnt pay to watch a 2 hour sony commercial..

Also I have to say I got chills looking at that Aston DB-S.. I that was true car lust.. I will score a drive in one of those somehow.. Next time I am back in Europe I will find one.

Somehow even though many elements were right (real bond, real grit, blood, death and emotion) I was somehow not involved..

M was superb, the opening credits with the psychedelic style bond but was good (but no naked dancing chicks in sillouette.. Thought that was a Bond ingredient).. set piece action well done (that parcourt / free running bit round the construction site at beggining) amazing locations.. Cant say why I didnt connect well with it but didnt.. Also felt the end (and more end.. then some more end) needed work. they could have tightened that up either at script or edit stage..