Harry Potter sequel: SKYFALL! (I'll try not to spoil much)

Rating: 4/10 (7 November 2012)

I watched this movie yesterday. At the end of it I was in doubt whether I had bough the ticket to the right picture or not...
First, I'll divide the movie in 3 parts. I) The first 20 minutes of it were action-packed joy: a 007 dressed in suit with his good old pistol fighting the bad guy. By far the best part of the film. It ends up bad for Mr. Bond however, being presumed dead after it. (The trailer pretty much covers this).
II) OK, now the movie starts to decay. After all the opening guns- blazing Craig plays the role of a cliché-like type of hero of the last two decades American movies: he is depressed, he no longer shows that love he has, he drinks, he doesn't shave, he no longer has a picture of the queen in his wallet. What do I think of this? AWFUL! This is 007, for God's sake!
Oh well, something bad happens in the good old continent - MI-6 gets attacked- and Mr. Bond decides to go back to duty, but he's miserable. He no longer is that charming agent full of manhood and ready to take on the entire world for his country. No! Instead, he looks like an old beggar who got some tooth cleaning treatment and a haircut. Still, he is put back to action.
Here you see a MI-6 with the same organization and strength of a lemonade selling tent managed by a 6 year old school boy. Really?! This is James Bond, not a Die Hard or an alien invasion type of film. Where did you get this plot?
Also, in this second part, he meets Q. The good old rat-lab Q with a bazillion new gadgets and fancy items, right? No. First, I'd like to say I don't mean to misjudge someone by the age, but the new Q was really new. Oh well, the one we used to know pretty much ended up in 007 Casino Royale anyway. I swear in this moment I spike of hope stroke my heart: despite the childish look of him, that just can't be taken serious by the spectators, I was hoping for a come-back at the wide range of weapons, the bond watch, the bond belt, the bond car, the apparently-daily-objects-guns-and-explosives, but again (and the movie leaves it very clearly in the dialogs of the characters) pretty much nothing. Remember the classic briefing in the lab where we could see a bunch of useless high-tech weaponry being tested on MI-6 staff in the background while Bond just ignored all of Q's advices and instructions? No, it didn't come back. This that was pretty much like a mark of every 007 movie just disappeared in the last 3 films.
Anyway, lets carry on. Bond goes chasing trails to find the criminal villain and ends up killing one assassin on the way. Nice, nothing great, but good. (Spoilers incoming) In a scenes Bond passively watches the killer he's looking for murder a man to only after try to arrest/interrogate him. That was weird, at least! It's just not Bondish, it's not English-heroic, as a fan would expect.
Following that, he mets a beautiful girl which you would expect to play the main female role of the picture, right? No. She plays a very short role in the entire film. To me, this movie just had no bond girl at all.
He ends up catching the villain, and here is where this second part ends for me. Here, judging by the length of the movie, I believe most realized there would be some master plan where Silva (bad guy) would escape, but this ain't much of fault.
I was quite disappointed at it. In this part, they should have developed the classic aspects of James Bond, as in the ones played by Roger Moore, but missed pretty much all.
III) In the last part of the film, the bad guy escapes with the use of a very intelligent plan previously developed. And here is where all the Harry-Pottish aspect kicks in. I'll just name what made it look like a romantic teenager romance/tragedy type of movie: a) M has a name, b) Bond has parents, c) Bond has parents that died, d) Bond has parents that died and that matters to the film, f) Bond has parents that died and that matters so much to the film that their names are displayed. g) Bond has to fight for his and M's lives in an old house, making it look like a Home Alone scene where he has to improvise a bunch of homemade traps to not die. h) In here the title of the film is explained: is SKYFALL a secret weapon, or satellite, or space operation, or enemy operation base? No! Fans will probably cry in rage when they realize the explanation for it. i) (Spoiler Alert) M dies.
In general this last part is emerged in emotions, tears and nostalgia. Jesus Christ! This is not Twilight, this is 007!
So, finishing this analysis, I just have to point out some of the strong points: a) The villain, played by Javier Bardem is original, and well made to be honest. b) The plot developed by Silva (Javier) is good, not great, but good. c) Good action scenes at the beginning.
Bad points: a) Overreaction in sentimentalism. The creation of an unnecessary connection between bond, his parents, M, etc. b) No strong bond girl play. c) No High-tech gadgets in general. d) The best action scenes pretty much just happened in the first minutes of the movie, investing too much in a drama/romantic Shakespeare type of plot for the rest of it.
In general this was a terrible waste of my time. The classic aspects of the good old 007 movies are just lost, forever probably.