The best Bond in years even with it's flaws

Rating: Null/10 (4 March 2013)

We saw Skyfall on DVD Saturday night. I have some issues with the story, still it was the best Bond film I've seen in ages. It confirmed for me that Daniel Craig is the best actor to play Mr. Bond since my favorite, Sean Connery. The film was loaded with action like most Bond films. It also contained some interesting back stories on Bond's roots and that for some of the other characters. If it had ended better I would have liked it even more.
Warning - stop now if you have not seen the film. Spoilers are coming.
I didn't like how the white slave girl was killed during the target pistol challenge to Bond. Bond makes his move to fight right after she's shot instead of before in order to save her. It should have been written differently. He had more or less given her hope he would save her on the boat. The Bonds of the past films would have done more for her. This Bond hardly seemed fazed by her impending death.
The villain was played very well. You could even understand his hatred for M. Problem is that his escape from the cell and the way he played Bond's agency made them all look like total knuckleheads. Would it have hurt to put a good padlock on his cell in addition to electronic doors? They knew their systems had already been compromised once.
I thought the way it ended with Judi Dench's M dying was a mistake too. I know they were going for the emotional impact. Maybe it was how she paid for the lives of the agents she'd sacrificed. She was even willing to write off Bond if it meant saving more agents. Now it was her turn. The problem for me was Bond had spent the last part of the film doing everything in his power to save her life. He even totally destroyed his ancestral home. And worst of all the classic Aston Martin from Goldfinger. It was so nice to see the car back, then they totally destroy it. It was so silly that M escaped onto the moors through a hidden passage only to then start walking with a bright flashlight. In the dark that flashlight showed exactly where she was to her pursuers. She might as well have sent up a flare ! Then she hides in the only other building left standing. If they had simply hidden on the moors in the dark with the flashlight out they never would have been found. Also, there should have been an army there to help protect her after the attack. Instead she has only Bond. If they were using this as a way to show that Bond still had what it takes to be the best, they should not have made all his efforts to save her be in vain. The ending I would have preferred was her retiring. Maybe even hinting that she was going to have some sort of relationship with that grounds keeper and retire to a simple life for her final years.