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Title: The Daniel Craig Bond is something new.
Review: It's hard to talk about the Daniel Craig Bond, and particularly this movie, without using the word "gritty." So, there you go. Last summer, I read all the Bond novels in order. Daniel Craig's portrayal of Bond is more like the Ian Fleming vision than any of the previous actors', including, even, Sean Connery. This is easily the most sober of the Bond films. Lots of exciting action, only over-the-top in the same way as are the action scenes, in say, the Bourne movies. (And the fight scenes seem clearly to owe much to the Bourne films.)That said, to be successful, Craig is going to have to tweak it a bit. We can enjoy a more serious and realistic Bond, as an offset to the serial nonsense which are the Roger Moore films. But he can't be a total downer indefinitely. We're going to want to like the guy at some point and we're going to need at least a little of that Bond humor.
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