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I used to be a fan and loved James Bond's films until they brought in this "actor", Daniel Craig, whose acting could be summed up to brute force.

I remember when the gentlemen like Sean Connery or Pierce Brosnan or Roger Moore used to perform in these wonderful and quite enjoyable films. Now the last two James Bond are pales images of what used to be an event. Casino Royale already showed the way with a brand new James Bond full of muscles and lacking brain. As for Quantum of Solace, it turned to be a copy of transporter 2 or Max Payne.

When do the producers intend to find a real actor personifying properly this character? But alas, they have already in the pipe the coming "Bond 23" and two more films with the same actor.

I wonder how the actors acted in this movie. Annette Bening was really herself, half in and half out, was she faking or being natural? It didn't make any difference considering that even if she had been walking on the ceiling it would not have changed the pattern of the film. Brian Cox acted really well. I almost thought that he had always acted this way, tricky, dishonest, in a dirty surrounding where nobody really cared about hygiene. As for Gwyneth Paltrow, the question is what she was doing in this film.

This film is quite sickening and disgusting. Who would pay to see such a crap?

Shekhar Kapur has dazzled us with his splendid Elizabeth with his new style to show historical films. And then we see his next production "the four feathers".

As a Frenchman, I know little about the British history. Of course, I know that the Britons have gone to war every where in the world where they could get hold of the local resources and that many times they met the French whom they beat generally, including in Sudan with the Fachoda episode.

In this film where love and courage are supposed to be the main pillars, we witness an incredible story where British soldiers can refuse to go to war when told to, where love goes up and down as the temperature, depending on the environment, where a local Sudanese man (as a magic lamp - Djimon Hounsou) helps the British soldiers for no known reason (maybe for love?) to fight against his own kind, where a man (a British man! Of course) survives in the African desert, during many days, without neither food nor water.

The images are good and the performance of the camera may be seen without any discretion. But is it enough to produce a good film?

In a country still at war today, where living conditions are incredibly hard, it is difficult to accept this historical romance. Nothing seems real, not even the poor Sudanese people. It is not worth spending more than 2 hours to see Kate Hudson performing so poorly