Fabulous and fantastic

Rating: 7/10 (27 November 2012)

We must forgive a few plot unlikelihoods, inconsistencies and not very well explained developments for the sake of the greatness of the visual features and aspects of this movie. The action scenes are fabulous and terrific, the camera movements, the cut and the images framing are excellent and the special and miniature effects overwhelming. Last but not least we have the splendid performance of a luxurious cast composed beside Daniel Craig as James Bond, by such great performers like Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem and even the old veteran Albert Finney in a small part in the end. The story is about the theft by a terrorist group led by and ex-agent of MI6 of a computer drive with the identities of other agents and that must be retrieved by 007 at all costs since some of them are anonymously infiltrated in terrorist networks. The action is constant and takes place from Istanbul to the Scotttish Highlands passing through London, Shanghai and Macao. The chases are overpowering indeed. The movie opens with perhaps the most fantastic and fabulous chase I have ever seen on a movie including cars, motorcycles and even a train running in tunnels from time to time. And the plot has even (which is rare in this kind of movies) some moving personal sentimental aspects mainly in the last scenes.