First to be fair, this is a quite servicable spy-adventure flick, but to paraphrase an old line, Where's the Bond? A good plot, but a better title for this movie might be Quantum Of Blandness.

What's there: The typical Bond music video opening credits intro, M, and some guy whose name just happened to be Bond.

What's NOT there (and should be): the Bond in gun-barrel sites pre-intro, the inuendo, humor (one brief chuckle at the very end and that's it), witty reparte, the BOND THEME MUSIC (we don't hear any of it at all until in the END CREDITS), Q, the gadgets (he has a gun and an I-phone), we only see the Ashton Martin in the chase before the opening credits and after that it's an SUV of some sort, an exciting over the top chase scene (the opening chase scene is a simple car chase, nothing overly special), the Bond flamboyant style, Moneypenney, girls with suggestive names, and finally a villain with a unique look, Schtik, or anything above common thug status. And not once did I find myself anywhere near the edge of my seat.

Oh yeah, and while he did bed someone (a fellow English spy sent to retrieve him), the seduction was completely absent. Just "will you help me... er.... search for some paper in here" when in the bedroom, the girl (who'd showed no interest prior) then just smiles, and we cut to the afterglow.

This was a spy movie but not a BOND spy movie; the whole thing was like whoever directed and wrote this thing had never EVER seen a Bond flick, just told to write a spy flick of some sort. As such, I cannot recommend it to anyone disirous of paying cash money to see a movie (and if you're a true Bond fan, don't even rent it when it's out on DVD). As for me, I've just broken out my copy of The World Is Not Enough with a real Bond in the form of Pierce Brosnan.