Skyfall -Very Good!! As a Bond Film?? - Let me think

Rating: 7/10 (11 November 2012)

Lets start of with the very important fact which according to me is the deciding factor why people loved this movie or rejected it outrightly, which is the story not being written by Ian Fleming and yes it becomes very evident when you watch this film. The film is not based on the novel creating that inability to differentiate between the Bond legacy and other espionage based series like Mission Impossible or Bourne series and that is where i am unable to find that soul of Bond( which for me is very crucial). The movie starts of huge and goes well humongous till the interval. However, it is after that when i felt the entire scale of presentation just dropped down to "just another spy movie" There are movie lovers, me and Bond fans who are appreciating the new presentation of Bond as more of a ruthless killer than a handsome guy with expensive gadgets, who in the recent episodes have neither of them. Everyone will certainly accept it (the box office opening of Skyfall and current IMDb rating have made it evident) To come to the finer aspects of film, this one also opens with a very promising chase scene like its previous two parts. However, my favorite yet remains from the first one, Casino Royale, because of more realistic feel because of free running. Yes, Daniel Craig justifies the role of James Bond and Judi Dench who probably has the most screen time in this part (if i am not wrong) delivers a great performance. Javier Bardem as Silva is really good considering his character design and appears scarily strong. The story has decent action and fair amount of twists. My favorite piece in the film is the first conversation between Bond and Silva. And an extra point for the locations chosen for the film.
So if i have to rate this movie as a stand alone spy film, i would give it a 9 on 10. But since its a part of Bond legacy and yet a part of it was promising i have rated it accordingly.