BOND: SKYFALL(2012)
Bond! James Bond!
Daniel Craig's third, but apparently not final turn as
007!! His portrayal of Bond gets more bleak as the
movies roll on! No humor, no glibness, basically no
fun!! But it is a good movie, just not what we have
come to expect from a really great Bond movie!
This is Judi Dench's last turn as M. Also the introduction
of a new Moneypenny(at the end of the movie!)! Also
introduces a new Q! B
From another reviewer at IMDb.com:
I thought Skyfall was awful. Worst of all it was just
boring, something I would never think I would say
about any Bond film.
The movie starts off well enough, a good chase scene
in an exotic location and it sets itself up for what could
have been a good story. The trouble is after the first
15 mins the story seems to go nowhere.
MI6 is in trouble, a list of its agents goes missing and
has to be recovered. Bond who everyone thought was
dead comes back to save the day. All good so far. Now
for some very thin reason Bond has to go to Shanghai.
I wonder if this scene was added to boost box office
figures in China because it was totally irrelevant to the
story. Next scene Bond meets the 'baddie'. Not some
master criminal but an ex MI6 agent out for some revenge.
This plot had already been covered in Goldeneye with
much better results. The Baddie looked more likely to
Blow Bond than Blow up MI6 and there was even a joke
along that line.
The story now moves to London. I applaud the decision
to have a Bond movie in the UK, especially in the
Jubilee/Olympic/50 year Bond year but frankly it just
painted England like every foreigners stereotype. Cold,
Wet, and miserable. Now it is about a plot to kill M, this
has also been covered before in 'The World is not Enough'
and the movie never returns to locating the missing list
of agents.
Why didn't the bad guy just kill M at the beginning of
the movie and spare me sitting through 2 hours of
boredom? I gave this film 4/10 because it has an
unexpected twist at the end that the production team
have managed not to leek prior to release. If it were
not for that then Id probably have given it only 3/10.
Craig is now showing his age and in my opinion there
are many better suited actors to the part. People moaned
about QOS but frankly this movie is the worst Bond film
ever. - Phil Moore
Daniel Craig ... James Bond
Judi Dench ... M
Javier Bardem ... Silva
Ralph Fiennes ... Gareth Mallory
Naomie Harris ... Eve
Berenice Marlohe ... Severine (as Berenice Lim Marlohe)
Albert Finney ... Kincade
Ben Whishaw ... Q
Rory Kinnear ... Tanner
Ola Rapace ... Patrice
Helen McCrory ... Clair Dowar MP
Nicholas Woodeson ... Doctor Hall
Bill Buckhurst ... Ronson
Elize du Toit ... Vanessa (M's Assistant)
Ian Bonar ... MI6 Technician
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Music playing is:
Music From James Bond: Skyfall
Boom, Boom
John Lee Hooker