I agree, it's not the worst but it isn't all that good. My main problem with it, which I mentioned to my wife as we came out of the cinema, was the reliance on CGI - Bond films have always used miniatures, often obviously, but for some reason I always forgiveable, because they were pushing the bounds and setting new standards. To have a major film, using CGI in major sequences - it's got to look good, because so many others are doing it - and the ice-wave-surfing and plane destruction looked amateurish and as for the invisible car!
Interestingly, I saw a comment by Barbara Broccoli (I think) where she said they'd relied too much on CGI.
I had no problem with the CGI. It is the current form of special effects now being used in movies. If THUNDERBALL had been made today, I'm sure that CGI would have been used for the Disco Volante sequence. Although I did have a problem with Bond and two other agents arriving in North Korea, via surfboards.
An astute review, Lady Lavinia. My biggest gripes with DAD is the uneven tone - there's the gritty, relatively dark beginning that somehow devolves into a reincarnation of Moonraker in an icy setting
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My other gripe is with Jinx's characterization - she's supposed to be Bond's professional equal, a politically correct feminist-friendly Bond girl of the 21st century, but she finds herself in the damsel in distress category after being captured twice. I have no complaints about this, Rose. One, Jinx got captured due to Bond roaming about Graves' complex the first time. And she got captured the second time, because Bond told her to trust Miranda
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Interestingly, I saw a comment by Barbara Broccoli (I think) where she said they'd relied too much on CGI.
I quite liked the ice chase though ;-)
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