Perhaps in his old age, ISM's failing memory forgets when Bond flicks were fun.
A good Bond movie left you wanting to drive fast on the way home from the theatre and tackle any evildooers along the way. After this flick, we went home and went to sleep.
While there has been no Q (his brilliance will be missed) there was an R which was his effective replacement.
I guess the movie simply wasn't fun for me, and it certainly was not thrilling. Plot "twists" could be seen from a mile away (and I'm typically bad at such things) making for very slow going. By the time they revealed each supposed twist, it had already been clearly obvious for 10 minutes. That makes for a slow moving movie. The action was rather dull and could hardly be called "wall-to-wall", except for the intro scene which would have worked better in a Bruce Lee flick than a Bond flick, but was still impressive none the less.
I did like the intro song though. Other than that, I'll just have to wait till they introduce the next Bond. Ugh, that will be a long wait.