I normally don't say much about Bond movies because, frankly, we don't expect much from them, at least, not from a physics standpoint. The movies are mostly pure fantasy, usually equiped with the hottest cars, poker hands, and women.

To me James Bond is a fantasy has gone flat, so to pump it up with some stylized reality, they have cut out of the usual physics clichés, bad guys firing submachine guns endlessly without so much as nicking anyone, characters repeatedly jump from 20 or more ft without so much as a twisted ankle, people running on foot routinely catch up with various motor vehicles, and an indestructible, indefatigable good guy. The list could be quite long.

When engaged in what has to be one of the highest speed chases ever filmed, at least for a foot race, Bond chases a bad guy to a high rise construction job. Desperate to escape, the bad guy naturally runs to the top of the highest possible structure, a horizontal crane boom from which there is no escape, but then does so in a series of highly improbable but spectacular leaps to nearby structures. Bond follows and eventually catches up.

Also when Bond steps up to the gambling table in this movie he actually loses, and when he eventually does win, it's by a combination of psychology, mathematical analysis, and luck, not just because he's Bond. The new sense of reality actually makes the scene dramatic. Could Bond's new gritty sense of realism extend to other venues? Are we about to see some improvements in Hollywood's movie physics that lead to better movies? Who knows, but Bond's new infusion of realism has definitely freshened his Martini.

Bottom line: Best Bond ever.