Could have been Great

Rating: 9/10 (15 October 2014)

Skyfall starts off with Bond on some mission to recover a stolen disk, but the scene starts off too fast. I would have liked to seen slower opening, showing Bond around the city. In the end, it's just a watered down opening scene filler intro.
The film's pacing is also strange. After Bond is shot, you see him drinking at a bar and then with a girl. I felt like his recovery scenes were edited and done to hastily. Let's see bond crawl himself out of the river, and sneak into a barn and collapse, only to be taken care of by a family. It would have given the rest of the film more weight.
Some how Silva hacks into M's office and makes an explosion. It makes no sense and is lame. Bond then shows up at M's house with his typical banter. I felt like Bond should have been more angry at M, but he does his typical "whatever" attitude. He then goes into this stupid conversation with that guy, all while the scene jumps to bond doing different exercises, but the conversation goes seamless like the waited to talk until the next exercise. It's just too edited.
The film jumps around some more some filler scenes, and Bond just happens to meet a woman whom wants to take him to Silva, whom Bond is looking for. I thought this very lazily done.
I didn't like the music either. The music is just so off. It's like it's beating you on the side of the head telling you to feel excited. The ending is filled with it. I would have rather there have been no music. The scenes are again edited to fast. We barely get to see them in Bond's old house before they get attacked.
Not showing the classic bond into in the beginning is just lame. Why not have some fun with the film. The bond music is also missed. It is a great theme that should of had some scenes crafted for it.