James Bond: “’Dying can wait’” lacks humor and a great action scene”

Ithe 78 years old but looks at least fifteen younger. To tell the truth, with his bald head and his imposing build belted in elegant black tones, one could almost confuse him with one of those slender and implacable killers regularly on the heels of agent 007 James Bond. Martin Campbell, on the other hand, is much more affable. In a velvety voice as poised as that of a British lord (even if he’s from New Zealand), he gladly leans on two eternal diamonds from his director’s resume: GoldenEye and Casino Royale. Greeted in their time by a positively surprised critic while she was waiting for them with a knife between her teeth, these two big successes respectively introduced Urbi and orbi Pierce Brosnan then Daniel Craig in the tuxedo of the most famous sp…