You Got to be Kidding me!

Rating: 7/10 (9 November 2012)

After seeing Skyfall, I have to confess that I have mixed feelings, so I'll make a list of the things I liked about the movie, and things I did not like, and then I shall reach my conclusions. Things I liked 1. after 17 long years the producers finally decided to remove that old lady good for nothing Judi Dench (who have the bright idea of making an old lady, neurotic, and bipolar, M?) 2. After 50 years and 23 films, we finally have a look (very shallow) about Bond's life before joining the British Secret Service, In GoldenEye we knew that his parents died in a car accident, but now we know that his father was called Andrew Bond and an his mother Monique and that he was born and raised in Scotland, and we knew one, of his babysitters, Kingcade, and of course that he hated his parents' old house. 3. After 10 years of absence we see again Q and Moneypenny, and I think they did not disappoint, nor the new M disappoints. 4. Subtle references to the 22 previous films of the franchise and others not so subtle, a gay assassin, (The Diamonds are Forever), Aston Martin ASD5 (Goldfinger, Thunderball and Casino Royale) the "death" of Bond at the beginning of the movie (You Only Live Twice), the gun with sensors that respond to Bond's touch (License to kill), the murderer who uses bullets rare, expensive and difficult to find (the Man with the Golden gun), a renegade MI6 agent (GoldenEye), an explosion at the headquarters of MI6 (The World is not Enough), Q giving Bond a Walter PPK (Dr No) Bond chase by a helicopter (From Russia with Love), Bond on a frozen lake (The Living Daylights), Bond throwing a knife with deadly force (For Your Eyes Only), Bond fighting on the roof of a train (Octopussy) Bond bearded (Die Another Day), mention the ancestors of Bond (on Her Majesty's Secret Service), a motorcycle chase on rooftops (Tomorrow Never Dies) Bond looking for a microchip at the beginning of the movie (A View to a Kill), Bond with a not very clever black female companion (Live and let die), and Bond killing a guy who could provide a vital clue to the whereabouts of the villain (Quantum of Solace) Things I did not like:
Two things i don't like it first, it's to believe for a normal human being survive a shot by a high powered rifle, dropped from a height of over 50 meters into the water, drop by a waterfall and still barely survive without sequels! that's it! , even for those who are hardcore, James Bond fans, that's too much to believe! second, why in the name of heaven, they didn't put the bloody gun barrel sequence at the beginning of the movie!!!! OK let's give them the the benefit of the doubt, we have to wait the next two films already announced to see if the franchise survives its "reinvention"