Plays Like Born; Sort of

Rating: 4/10 (12 December 2012)

The latest Bond, Skyfall, attempts to bring in the hand to hand combat and dark imagery of the Born series, but it falls hard. The usual setup is here, ie., the freakish bad guy, the doubt in the protag, the girl, etc. Without spoiling it for you, I'll say Skyfall is similar in outline to the last Born with Damon in it. Think - back story of the agents, how they're brought in and treated. Skyfall even has Albert Finney from Born as well, go figure.
How dark has Bond fallen (no pun)? He accesses the bad guys lady - a girl he says (to her face) is a sex slave. She doesn't deny it. He says he can help her. A few scenes later he's having sex with her - so how did he really help her? I won't give the next part away, but it's not good for the girl. Bond does not help.
4/10.