My thoughts about the likely fate of Vesper went something like this: It wasn't perfunctory, at least, but I still didn't like it. I suspected going in that I would have a problem with it, since it was clear from reviews that Bond's love interest was going to die, and I worried that it would feel perfunctory and manipulative, just checking off a box in the process of turning Bond into a slick soulless killing-and-seducing machine. You can hear the 'but' coming, can't you? Not only that, you can probably guess what it is.īut I really disliked the romantic subplot.
The casting was excellent (I note with interest that Daniel Craig and Eva Green have been cast in the film adapation of His Dark Materials as Lord Asriel and Serafina Pekkala), the action scenes were excellent, the dialogue was very good, the plot dragged a bit toward the end and got rather dubious, but I'm told this is not unusual for Bond movies, and on the whole it was a movie much more to my tastes than I expect prior installments of the franchise would be.
