Ian Fleming might be happy but overall a bore

Rating: 7/10 (12 November 2012)

I have been waiting all weekend to see Skyfall. I know most people either love or hate Daniel Craig as James Bond but I like him a lot. He is more hard edged and I think that's what the film makers intended. This movie come on the celebration of 50th years of Bond and I think the film makers wanted to come up with the real Bond the one Ian Fleming imagined..but ultimately Bond and the film are a lore. I know now if it has to do with the modern era of technology or what we expect more from our spies and Bond has always given us more, but not this time. They should have know that they we're going to get away with this kind of cerebral, soapy story after the failure of "Tinker, Tailor,Soldier Spy." Audiences want to keep somethings about their flawed heroes a secret. What did I like about Skyfall? The opening was great and Daniel Craig inhabits his character as does Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes didn't do a bad job either. Javier Bardem tore up the scream and really had me liking his bad guy character until they ruin him in the end. What I didn't like? The story was okay but the lack of gadgets hurt and the new Q was boring. I know they believed that all of the high tech computer play would suffice but it just didn't. Now the thing I hated most was the lack of realism with the final battle, too ridiculous even for a Bond movie. Bond movies always have the international calvary riding in to help showing us that England is not alone in the battle against evil, I miss that. Lastly there was no Bond girl, the dumb Naoemi Harris and the beautiful, yet meaningless Berenice Marlohe could have been written out and no one would have noticed. A Bond girl has beautiful, charm, a story of her own and she lingers past the credits but these two are totally forgettable. Too bad I really wanted to like this movie a lot. I wanted it to be a 9 or 10. I gave it a 7 for Craig, Dench and Bardem. It might make a lot of money in the first week but it will take a big and final drop quickly. You know a movie should make you feel something so that you are talking about it afterward, the audience should be chattering while leaving the theater. Well when we left Bond there was only silence.