I saw it couple nights ago. First I want to thank you for the first post. Definitely up there for post of the year on this board.
Now as for the film...I really was ho-hum on it. The villain was meh and I like Rami. I kept thinking this was just a better version of Quantum and you can't make that a good film.
Bond franchise has always been weird. Decades go by, actors replaced but they are essentially still playing the same characters from 1962.
Now the Craig franchise was basically a reboot of everything with the exception of Judy Dench. He got his license to kill at the beginning of Casino and died at the end of this. The start and the end of Bond....and Felix....and Blofeld.
I love Craig as Bond but if you're rebooting the whole thing perhaps they should not have hired a mid-late 30s actor. Maybe it would not have mattered anyway, they all get tired of it after so many.
It's been brought up and worth mentioning again perhaps they should have just left Bond in the 60s.