Outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell analyses James Bond films

Outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell turned film critic Tuesday, panning the formulaic plots of James Bond films but extolling the producers for their prescience in providing the fictional superspy with sophisticated gadgets before they were actually invented - reports ChannelNewsAsia.

Powell told a group of Bulgarian university students here he was amazed by the number of early Bond gadgets that seemed outlandish at the time but eventually turned up as working versions on the open market.

He jokingly declined to comment when asked by a student whose class had analyzed Bond movies whether real-world technology surpassed that presented in today's films, saying "so much further I can't talk about them."

"It's interesting, though, a lot of the gadgets that you saw in the older James Bond movies and some of the other gadgets which seemed so incredible all have happened," Powell said.

He had less enthusiasm for actual content of the movies.

"What did you discover about the plots of James Bond movies?" Powell asked the student.

"They all seem to have the same plot: OO7 comes in, bad guy is out to do something very bad, a lot very beautiful women around, a lot of car chases and fancy gadgets, bad guy goes at the end and James Bond gets the girl."

Powell, who prefers Jamaican rum and coke to shaken martinis, offered no opinion on who his favorite Bond actor is.

Thanks to `Kyvan` for the alert.

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