Skyfall (2012)

haha I had a different reference run through my mind during the final act

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I agree. Dalton may have had not much humour but he was charming and sexy. The attraction of Craig's Bond is not that clear.

I hear that this movie is amazibg, but i don't know, i have to watch it or not?

Yes, it's one of the best Bond films in the series.

I love James Bond but don't like them making him an assassin


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I've watched a few times now, probably put in the latter half of Bond films. Probably but not for any precise thing, they just couldn't quite pull the plot off convincingly

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Really? In what way?

To me it's the most beautifully shot Bond film in the series, with one of the best Bonds(Dalton is still my favourite Bond though) in the lead, concentrated more on M this time around and I enjoyed that, a memorable and excellent villain and there hasn't been a memorable one for some time for me. Glad they finally changed music composers because I was getting sick of David Arnold and so on.

Reading your thoughts on the film, I liked everything you didn't.

The villain was memorable but it was so homophobic. Like something from the Roger Moore era, which was probably what they were going for.

^ I didn't get this homophobic vibe at all.

Me either.

Ashdoc's review---

Aaah !! To be James Bond....

You chase a bad guy up and down an exotic city in the mystical orient ( Istanbul---Constantinople for those waiting to see it liberated from the clutches of the Turks ) first in a car and then on a motorbike making impossible jumps without hitting or killing any living soul....

....and then the chase continues on a train until you are shot at the hands of a delectable black girl....

But lo !! you still survive the shot by falling deep into water , and are saved to end up being caressed tenderly by the loving fingers of a lovely woman in bed.....

This whole action sequence is shot beautifully making it one of the best starts to a Bond movie ever---making you ask for more....

But the more does not come at all....

Instead what you get to see is a plot to expose the identities of all MI6 agents on Youtube metamorphose into a mission to save Bond's boss M from the revenge of an old MI6 agent who is out to settle old scores with her....

And what a villain is the old wronged MI6 agent....all blonde and gay....

Yes , gay enough to lay his hands on James Bond's muscular thighs stroking them with lust in his eyes....

And with this gay villain getting centerstage , the women are sidelined....we don't get to see Bond on top of the delectable black girl at all....and the one he gets to bed is shot dead within a short time....

Yeah ,the exotic locations are all there photographed with skill---from the hideous beauty of Shanghai ( hideous because it was built by kicking out 3 million poor people from their homes ) to the modern wonders of Macau....

.....And so are the high tech bond gadgets like an antique car that fires machine gun fire from hidden guns to a pistol that is coded to James Bond's palm prints....

But ultimately it comes down to a showdown with the villain by the use of old shotguns and makeshift bombs in Bond's ancestral home in Scotland with an old geezer as ally....

So can James Bond prevent MI6 operatives from being exposed ?? And most importantly , can he save M from being killed ??

Go and see the movie for that....

But is it worth the watch ?? I think not....

For there are too many loose ends---like how does James survive the shot and fall from the train....and how does the villain escape so easily after being caught and held amidst tight security by MI6 ??

The one thing that shines is Daniel Craig as James Bond---who is all brawn and muscle and acting performance....

But to me at least , it wasn't enough to carry the film entirely on his ( admittedly broad ) shoulders....

The action is bunched in at the start and at the end with the middle of the movie showing all talk but no action....

Music is decent....

But the movie is barely decent....

Verdict---just about okay...

Although I would agree Skyfall was a good film, to date I feel the best Daniel Craig Bond has been hist first Casino Royale, this had the classic Bond sotyline which I dont think the following 2 have, although both great action adventure films.

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For me, Skyfall has an inherent flaw; it both tries to be current and yet still wants to keep the comic/traditional Bond elements. There's all this talk about villains in the shadows and people talking about the modern world- as if the world was in the dark ages in 2008- yet you have a character like Da Silva which is pure old school camp Bond villain. You can't ask people to take Bond as a psychologically deep character when Da Silva is the villain.


Why is Bond being treated like some dinosaur? Bond has always been in touch with the modern world and physically capable; even when Roger Moore was doddering around, we suspend belief. Yet now Bond is meant to be over-the-hill but is unrealistically kept on out of sentiment? In real life, I would think that MI6 would be more ruthless.


Moneypenny and Q are introduced in an annoying way. It's nice to see a change but the changes are presented as if they are big leaps into the modern world. There's no reason why Moneypenny had to be an agent; it's not like Bond hasn't worked with female agents. And Q being a young computer nerd because of how much damage the internet can do was presented in a similar way.


As for the elements of homophobia, it is the villain presented as a grotesque deviant figure who Bond is able to beat through his strong heterosexuality. The audience are meant to be shocked when Bond jokes that he's had previous experiences- some of them went into meltdown, because this would 'destroy' Bond and the joke sullies him. I have no issues with the joke but the portrayal of Da Silva is so stereotypical that it's insulting and it doesn't fit with the Craig era.


SPECTRE looks like it may have similar flaws; it's great that they've got the rights to use SPECTRE but it's too iconic. They could make it look like very traditional Bond or they could rebuild SPECTRE as a modern organisation. I've heard theories that 'James Bond' is a code name; it's just another false attempt to make psychologically real something which is pure fantasy. You can make a fantasy resonate without needing to make it plausible.

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ive just had a rewatch of this, and i have to say how great this movie is in the james bond franchise and i have to rank it high enough btw the best ones, daniel craig has made this era totally his role and his character, he's a very good bond character although my top actors for the role are ahead of him, but i really like what he gives in portrayal of bond in his movies, in terms of edgy, reckless, careless secret agent along with charms for the women, he's really good.

i think aswell to add to how good skyfall is as a bond movie, i think adele s score really made it more memorable because the song is simply sublime, i didn t even know before watching thats when she says: "skyfall is where we start", thats its james bond home town, a classic film in the series

Really enjoyed reading this review...not really a Bond film but your review kind of made me want to check this out.

"Skyfall is where we start",i will only quote this phrase from adele s score, thats how good this movie is