No. Generic chase scene at the beginning that quickly goes completely over-the-top, possibly to make up for the fact that nothing happens in the movie until he fights that Chinese henchman in the Komodo Dragon pit with all-time terrible CGI. Anyway, Bond 'dies', immediately returns. No emotional build-up for the Bond girl so no emotion when she's killed off, in fact, I think even Bond barely reacts to killing her. Ralph Fiennes' presence death flagging all over Judi Dench. The London MI-6 attack in which Joker Bardem gets that TDK kayfabe protection where everything fits into his plan perfectly, even things he didn't plan for or had to improvise. Ending is Home Alone in Scotland.
It's pretty to look at, but unfortunately it also features all the other Sam Mendes trademarks of being dry, long-winded and boring.
Chase scene wasn't generic and clearly developed some of the themes that would run through the movie and how M approached the job and how Bond did. It's all great character work from scene 1 and everything builds on the scene after it. I guess it did everything i needed it to do for me as a Bond fanatic