I thought it was a fun action adventure with some nice touches, but i don't see the Bond connection. I would happily see a sequel as Elba played more of a Jack Bauer 'maverick' agent than a suave spy. Plus he's mid forties, so probably too late.
It's worth a watch though if you want a Taken/24 style actioner.
"What are you, some kind of doomsday machine, boy?"
I don't think I've ever seen Elba play Bondly at all. He's played only mixtures of military-tough or street-tough, afaik. Or, of course, his obvious tour de force as stick-in-the-mud middle manager Charles Miner on The Office (U.S.). Basically, pretty much every role I've seen him in knowingly cashes in on his persona's utter lack of sense-of-humor and his palpable forebearance rather than slickness or guile or inherent Bondliness.
I can say he actually reminds me of literary James a bit...or perhaps Dalton's Bond only when in the mood to reject the job or if I squint Craig's Bond before Vesper and the job transformed him over the course of CR...but Elba's not cinematic Bond much at all (ignoring race for the time being).
Always strikes me as a "fan"'s blatant overreach to signal that one is just so progressively virtuous that of course Elba would be a good Bond, because notice my open mindedness! Notice me!
Rather than paying attention to the actual actor targeted for my "want"/exploitation. That would take actual analysis and thought.
Maybe I've missed something, though. And maybe Elba could/would play Bondly just fine; I do think he's a good actor. But folks watching Luther or whatever and claiming to see James Bond are full-of-a-useful-four-letter-word.
Now, this is a signature gun, and that is an optical palm reader.
That means you're racist.
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ant-mac
I'm being facetious
shareThat's ok. I'm known to be facetiously racist.
Now, this is a signature gun, and that is an optical palm reader.
Better than being racistly facetious.
share"I'm being facetious"
I'm sorry, I thought you were being flippant.
ant-mac
Basically the same thing
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