My teenage self loved James Bond. Part of becoming an adult was letting go of 007. I remember walking out of a movie theatre in the early 1990s, saying to myself. “Bond has lost any resemblance to a real human being. This cartoon-like character is just plain old silly. I am never going to watch a Bond movie again!” Two Bond movies later I was part of a captured audience on a transatlantic flight to London. I had to admit to myself that the new Bond movie in which a German media mogul tried to control the world was pretty good. But until last night I kept my vow not to buy a ticket for a new James Bond movie. The publicity surrounding [i[Casino Royale suggested that the producers tried to change Bond from the cartoon character to someone with real human emotions. As a connoisseur of the first twenty Bond movies, I wanted to see this happening. The new Bond is truly a different Bond. Anyone who has seen Bond in action many times will enjoy seeing Bond transformed into an emotionally believable character. If you have never watched a James Bond movie, it is clearly not a film you must see, but you will take a splendid scenic tour of some of the world’s most beautiful spots.  In the new Bond, drama unfolds not alone only through physics- defying high tech stunts but also through dialogues. I suspect that Paul Haggis who wrote the wonderful screenplay to Crash (2004) had a strong hand in successfully humanizing James Bond. The new James Bond, Daniel Craig, delivers a strong performance. It is a real pleasure to watch him enact the humanized James Bond. He uses his eyes very effectively to communicate.  I walked out of the theater musing: “What new assignment is James Bond going to get by the producers now that they have turned him into a recognizable human being. Will I be able to resist the temptation to see this for myself?”