005. The Action
People criticise the opening car chase and claim it was edited to death, but I loved it. It was a balls-to-the-wall opening, and grabbed your attention from the get-go. The editing style was a little distracting, but it was kinetic, and if you were in that car chase things wouldnt seem to be slow-moving and well-framed. The footchase through Siena and the battle on the scaffolding, the speedboat chase, the dogfight in the desert, the finale in the exploding Perlas de Las Dunas there is a lot of sterling action in the film and it is generally very well-done, just as much as any good Bond film. Nothing was memorable like the skijump on The Spy who Loved me, or the opening of Tommorow Never Dies, or the race across the Miami international runway in Casino Royale, but it was always great, despite not being showstopping or breathtaking. Better this than one great setpiece and the action puttering out- so for me, the action stood up, and the camerawork was a major reason for this. If you go back and rewatch the action scenes, perhaps by themselves, youll probably agree with me.