I agree, the movie was so bad I had to watch it in two parts. The second half was trying to find what in the world everyone was raving about.
Utterly stupid plot devices and sequences, pointless events, illogical narrative, the list goes on and on.
Perhaps the most stunningly idiotic of sequences was Kincaid, a Scottish gamekeeper on that very land his entire very long life, fleeing the bad guys across the marsh by... shining a flashlight and waving it around erratically, doing his best imitation of a lighthouse. I just thought it was hilarious that the one guy who would know that area like the back of his hand had to use a flashlight, while everyone else was able to travel like THEY were the gamekeepers without a flashlight amongst them (though one fortunately carried a underwater signal flare in his boot). Wonder how that checklist goes.. assualt rifle, communications device, backup gun... oh yes, my trusty boot mounted underwater signal flare.. )
And of course, at the end, after watching Bond plow through 30 'willing to die and not bat an eye' 1-800-henchman goons, we see Silva who's sole desire is apparently to simultaneously off M and himself... say what? He could have done that with his vast supply of explosive devices a dozen or so times throughout the movie.
yuch. Most pointless Bond movie since Live and Let Die.
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