Robert Weinstein Esq.

Ruined what was otherwise the best Bond movie yet. I can easily brush off the virtue signaling as it isn't so in your face as to become a "full send" politicalized message, albeit they killed Bond both during and of course at the end. The whole point and magic of Bond movies IMHO was built on a relatively simple formula. A man all the women want, who has a license to kill, with awesomely great gadgets and weapons, and most saliently, against all odds, always figures out a way to survive while saving the world by destroying the enemy. It's a simple working proven formula for success, and they totally and needlessly ruined it. Here, one key woman Bond encounters isn't memorized and enchanted by his presence. What??? Seriously?? How can you have a Bond movie, without Bond being Bond? There are other smaller issues along the same lines, however, if that's all that's wrong with the flick, it would still easily rank highly. BUT BUT BUT that's sadly and tragically far from the case. The real and frustratingly sad and unlettered killer and destroyer of the franchise is he dies, yes James Bond dies for the first time, in a sacrifice of one of the greatest "guy's action film series" James Bond is totally and without mercy or reflection 'Frankensteined' into an action chick flick, undoubtedly due to the writers' inability to muster the talent and vision to maintain an icon left in their charge. An icon that is also well beyond and above the paygrade of those who foolishly destroyed the "fantasy" and character in one very ridiculous sorry excuse of an ending.