Just back from seeing this (it was released in the UK on Friday, will be released in the US later)
Brilliant, absolutely superb.
The acting is superb from Craig, villain Javier Bardem and everyone. The script is superb, with a depth usually not seen in a Bond film. The story gives a depth to Bond, literally going back to his (Scottish) roots.
There are some lovely jokes and little nods to the Bond canon. Any Bond film which can include a passage from Tennyson and have your patriotic blood surge as a result is doing something right.
The cinema I was in actually cheered at a couple of the scenes. And had a lump in its collective throat at another.
The action sequences are pure Bond, but also contemporary.
No CGI, they are lean, hard and even brutal. The jokes are nicely spaced and the gadgets are kept to a minimum (which they even poke fun at...)
This is the ‘proper Bond’ of Fleming’s novels.
Go see it when it comes out.
Thanks for the review. It is in line with what many are writing.