Sky High

Rating: 10/10 (15 April 2020)

This is the best Bond film to date, just about everything about it was excellent, the acting, direction, photography scenery, authentic locations and music, the title song by Adele is pretty good too.
No gadgets except the radio transmitter, return of the Aston Martin DB5, and a Bentley (in the Ian Fleming books he was supposed to have a Bentley) but that is M's car. There are a return of a few Bond themes too, a Casino scene and helicopters, Moneypenny is back, but not the original one, this character is called Eve Moneypenny, although it is not mentioned whether she is a relative of the old Moneypenny, she is played by the excellent Naomie Harris, and Q is back but in a younger form played by Ben Whishaw. Rory Kinnear plays Tanner again and to complete the MI6 crew, Judi Dench plays M again but her last time, she dies at the end, and the role of M is taken by Ralph Fiennes, a cracking actor. Albert Finney does a good cameo as Kincaid and Javier Bardem plays one of the creepiest villains as Silva.
The locations are almost all authentic, Turkey, Istanbul, London, Scotland, Shanghai and the Island, in the film it does not refer to which territory the Island belonged to or did previously, since they sailed from Shanghai to get to it, its implied that it is a Chinese Island, but the one they used was a real Island, with real derelict buildings, but is in Japan, but opposite the East China Sea from Shanghai so would represent accuracy in the film, the only faked locations were Macao and some of the Shanghai scenes, not enough to worry about, they do need to make some stuff in the studio anyway.
Henchmen :- there seemed to be a few, working for Silva, but no one really stood out, maybe the Chinese looking guy that got dragged off by a Komodo Dragon, oh and just in case you wondered about that, Komodo Dragons do eat humans in real life!, they are a bit slow, so easy to avoid but their saliva contains a paralysing agent, so if they bite you or even just get their mouth around any part of you, it will disable you and then the creature will drag you off for its lunch!
Bond Girls :- 3 in this, No.65 is a Turkish beauty in the intro, after he got shot by Moneypenny Bond has not returned and decided to go native in Turkey and she is the one he has been shagging whilst he had been away, played by Tonia Sotiropoulou (Greece), she is the most beautiful in the film. Next is the new Moneypenny, Eve Moneypenny (no.66) played by Naomie Harris, at last a Moneypenny got to shag bond, but not the original, the sex is supposed to have occurred after the shave scene, but he did not know her name at the time, she only reveals that to him at the end. No.67 is Severine played by French actor Berenice Marlohe, who had an odd looking face, she plays a baddie who meets Bond in the casino (where else) scene, and invites him back to her boat, if he survives, obviously he makes it, if Bond can kill all for Queen and Country, he can also do it if a shags in the offering, and he does her in the shower, after they get to the island Silva kills her.
This is supposed to be a standalone film, it does not have much to link it to the last 2 which were a part 1 & 2 in reality, however in the next film, it is revealed that the Quantum organisation in Casino Royale & Quantum of Solace are really part of SPECTRE in that film and Silva also worked for SPECTRE, making this film as a part 3 in the series, and SPECTRE being part 4. But until that was made it looked like it was on its own and all in all an excellent film, not much to complain about, so I won't, 10 out of 10.