The movie opens with Bond involved in a reckless car chase on the tollway that leads through mountain tunnels from Nice through Monte Carlo ... with Bond under constant machinegun fire[. The shot] is so quickly cut and so obviously composed of incomprehensible CGI that we're essentially looking at bright colors bouncing off each other, intercut with Bond at the wheel and POV shots of approaching monster trucks. Let's all think together. When has an action hero ever, even once, been killed by machinegun fire, no matter how many hundreds of rounds? The hit men should simply reject them and say, "No can do, Boss. They never work in this kind of movie."Part of Ebert's complaint is that the movie makes Bond an action hero, and he prefers the old Bond. I actually hate the old Bond, and loved the new direction they began in Casino Royale, so maybe I'll like this.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Quantum of Silence Two Stars?
Lo Tov, as the Hebrew say! Roger Ebert slams the newest addition to the James Bond franchise. I loved this little paragraph a lot.
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