James Bond Dies Today

Rating: 10/10 (11 June 2015)

Despite having spent around 2 years of my life watching movies, I've never finished an entire James Bond film. They've never appealed to me, I just fail to feel the magic of the old ones, myself being born in 1983, while the lack of originality in the newer ones plain put me off. Be that as it may though, this movie I felt. Not having seen a trailer it took me by complete surprise, like a long awaited answer to a primal yearning would, filling a hole in my conscious desires with heaps of guilty pleasure.
My attempts at resisting the charm of the script's self awareness proved futile, not just in respect to the explicit meta references, but also in Deus Ex Machina appearing as a projection of the viewer's voyeuristic appetites, an ever-present companion who is dying to cheer with us and proudly admits the simplicity of it's nature, the very same way the protagonist proclaims awareness of the euphemism behind his desire to drink a glass of plain old Gin.