So, by now even the Americans will have seen it. What do you think?

SPOILER ALERT!

I didn't like it very much. The movie started with an action scene (the car chase), then a short break, and another action scene (the boat chase), then another break (the opera scene, which I really liked) and then there was the third action scene (the on foot chase). By now the filmmakers decided to do something artistic and show that this was normal for Bond by muting the sound and playing opera on top. That annoyed me. It seemed like they tried to push as many chases and action scenes as possible into the movie to get this point across, but they failed miserably.

Bond was too American in this movie, not British as he usually is. Bond is the only spy who can share a good dinner with his arch nemesis at a secret lair. Last time they played poker! This time he can hardly go to a party without being accused of murder.

The ending was too anti-climatic. First of, who builds a hotel out of flammable material in the desert with hydrogen tanks in each room? And who sets the finale of a bond movie to said hotel? Here is the end of the movie:
Bond fights the villain for a while, then leaves him (dead, I thought) to sit in a corner with his lady friend while the hotel burns (explodes, actually). They survive a canister of Hydrogen blowing up (an explosion that looks a lot like burning petrol) and see the villain apparently alive heading into the desert.
Cut.
A hydrogen car is driving into the desert. In the boot the villain is tide up. He is left in the desert with a can of motor oil.
End of climatic action scene.

What kind of an ending is that? The car chase in the beginning was more climatic! Bond saving the world by solving a rubiks cube would be more climatic!

So, end of my rant. What do you guys think, was this better than Casino Royale?