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This movie has all the good elements of an action packed James Bond
flick. A little bit of everything that was cool in previous movies. Ski
chases, boat chases, inventive gadgets, great looking women, evil villains
with a plot to take control of the world and Bond getting laid. The only
thing a tad different with this film, is that M gets more involved with the
action and Q introduces us to John Cleese (Monty Pythons Flying Circus) who
will be his replacement. Bond jokingly asks if his name would be R, I'm not
sure if that is his actual name, though. My only gripe about the movie is the
lack of a mystery for Bond to solve. There is a small one, but it doesn't
take much to figure it out. Woe is me, I miss the old Bond movies. Alas, they
are forever gone, I think. There is a money making franchise replacing it,
like a Disney movie where the plot is sacrificed to get on to the next song
and dance. Only with Bond movies the music is explosions and gunfire, the
dance replaced with destruction, stunts and special effects. This has been
going on since the Timothy Dalton flicks, perhaps earlier, so maybe it's too
late to complain about this. Still, this Bond movie is good, it's also way
better than the last one. I give it a B+ for being a better than average
action flick.
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