I talked about going to see the latest (and Daniel Craig's final) James Bond movie in terms of looking forward to seeing things blow up...and I was not disappointed. James Bond himself blew up five times throughout the course of the movie, let alone the cars and crypts and buildings.
Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody's Freddie Mercury) plays the film's villain, who wants to better the world by selling a new nanobot weapon that targets specific DNA blah, blah, blah. He apparently is a proponent of the less-is-more theory of acting as he practically whispers every line with a deadpan, I-might-be-high-on-something expression that is less menacing than it is just kind of creepy in an I've-been-peeking-through-your-window kind of way.
But none of that is important compared to the gritty fighting and eye-popping chase scenes (including some phenomenal motorcycle stunts that make Steve McQueen's work in The Great Escape look like a blooper reel).
Two biggest laughs:
1) After one particularly confusing "coming attraction" trailer, ActorBoy said, "What was that even about? I hope YOU could understand it!" To which, his father-in-law, WrecklessBassman, replied, "I understand that I won't be seeing that movie."
2) There's a scene in the movie where Bond has to turn on the power in an old missle silo/submarine station and Q, the techno-wizard in his earpiece, starts to explain how he'll have to do things in a precise order in order to blah, blah, blah and Bond just starts flipping all the switches and pulling levers until Q says, "Now, first..." and Bond already has things up and running and says, "Got it."
Bottom line: If you like Craig's Bourne-like take on Bond, you won't be disappointed. Come for the action, stay for the laughs.
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