Soooooooooooooo bad...

Rating: 4/10 (13 November 2012)

The plot is pathetic, the movie plods and is tremendously dull, the action sequences are fine - but they feel more muted than past movies. The main thing is that "old" Bonds, a'la Brosnan for example, were larger than life Bonds who you could enjoy watching. The Cruciferous Mrs seems to think that by making Bond gritty and real he somehow stays relevant and new. The only problem is, he doesn't - this Bond is dull, boring, unsexy - the antithesis of 50 years of great Bond flicks. No new characters of note, the new Q has all the presence of a rollmop herring. And the first thing he does in his new job is hook up the enemies computer directly to the MI6 mainframe? Give me strength. The evil gay villain dude randomly gets caught at exactly the place and time he's put enough explosive to allow a tube train to bust through a ceiling? Cue raised eyebrows... (Yes, yes - smartasses out there, we know he probably had them absolutely everywhere so he could blow anywhere up, should he need to - what, I have to infer things to make the plot even half way believable? - incredulous eyebrows, again...) Oh, and Bond at the end of the movie in the frozen lake - ever heard of hypothermia? Yet just wanders to the chapel and throws a hunting knife in the villains back? Sorry - but a REAL, gritty Bond like they are trying to create unfortunately appears to be immune to the laws of physics - so he is both dull as hell and unbelievable. And we know already he is a physical wreck... AND... the villain actually wins - given he wanted to kill himself and M. AND the reason for the movie, the list, is never even discussed again - I'm thinking that ubergayvillaindude given his permanent 2 steps ahead of Bond modus operandi would probably have made a contingency to guarantee the remaining spies were still outed (If he didn't then frankly he was probably just too gay for a bond movie...). AND... you actually feel that the villain has a right to be aggrieved by M and thus you have no emotional connection to the plot; actually looking forward to M getting killed. AND... as another poster wrote, why not just get a blank sim card and call in for backup when you know the bad dudes are on the Skyfall estate? The way Bond runs this is completely effing retarded. Mendes brings all the tension of a slap in the face with a wet fish to what is clearly and simply the worst Bond ever made. Bond movies used to be fun, and I think Daniel Craig is actually generally good as Bond, but make no bones about it - this movie is crap; its markedly less fun than George Lazenby's risible effort.
Oh, and the amount of continuity errors which are so bad you can see them on the first viewing is excruciating to watch. You may first see the bond-girls fag in the casino, but you can probably pick out about 10 before pretty easily. Poor, poor film making - so dull and so non-Bond - saved by a few nice action sequences. It would be so-so as a straight to DVD...