David Preston

Too long. I hope this is the last Bond film and we can get back to finding new stories and characters to develop. Jason Bourne has also run his (much shorter) course and was a better character than Bond. To be blunt, Bond has had so many makeovers that the only thing left is to invent new chase scenes. The problem is that everything has been done before. The helicopter chasing, the villains in Range Rovers chasing, the motorbike men chasing. Every time we have to have an island in the Far East, a poison, a pantomime villain, an implausible massive hideaway where there are an impressive array of workers doing not very much, a fall off a building or bridge with a mysterious rope always to hand, an aircraft and helicopter he can fly without any training, Q developing impossible items and a boss who hates him or doesn't want to use him but ends up dutifully grateful. This time the chases were endless and the stream of bullets that cannot pierce his car pathetic. To which we add the totally unbelievable scenes at the end where he picks off man after man with his guns without taking a single hit. I counted nearly 50 kills in that short scene alone. Craig looks like a grandfather and has a face that must be as attractive to kiss as a desiccated pineapple. His clothes hang like Oxfam rejects from his puny body, that no amount of gym work can disguise. Let's hope this is the last ever Bond and we can look forward to something more intelligent from the movie makers. As for Waller-Bridge, who it was said had been taken on as co-script writer because of her pizazz and humour. Well there was no sign of the latter. The makers should ask for their money back on that one. I can report however that I managed not to fall asleep during the show.