If you saw Colin and Brendan in their last outing .. which btw was very good … then this might catch you by surprise. Personally I love ‘little movies “ like this - the Brits and the Irish do so very …
Yes it is a yarn and the book is badly written (though I still turned the pages VERY quickly), this is the movie - and was a good one.
It’s Bond. It’s Daniel Craig. The story continues.
Been on my list since it came out and was not what I expected. Took 15 to 20 minutes to recalibrate. But I did. Really good. If I closed my eyes, the audio and dialogue reminded me of a Wes Anderson project (close your eyes .. the visuals are nothing like Wes. Bale was great .. at time channeling Peter Falk’s ‘Columbo’ … or is that just me?
It just popped up as a ‘why not watch’ kind of alert … I had. Very good.
I resisted watching this for a while … asked on the trailers … It was all right … but the cheesy trailers are a clue.
It was better than the first in the series! Maybe I’m just not the target audience.
Totally unexpected delight.
Watched on Wednesday December 21, 2022.
4 stars .. and I’m not even a big fan of the man!