Hollywoodish venture, too long, low payoff.

Rating: 3/10 (26 June 2013)

A largely commercial venture that caters to the Superman crowd, I could not take this as seriously as a Mission Impossible, for instance. There were too many panderings to Cinametique, and the whole thing was just way too long. It stretched and stretched it seemed. I could have edited this down and chewed off at least 40 minutes. Plus it was all way too obvious as far as progression of plot. The mystery just wasn't there.
Javier Bardem played his role magnificently, as would be expected. He makes a great bad guy. But the clownish blonde hair and the CG teeth...man. The security setup with him in the glass cage (with no potty to go in) was way ridiculous, as well as the moment with him on the ladder being shot at 5 times by Bond and evidently Bond claiming that he missed on purpose. The whole deal then with the explosion in the ceiling of the tunnel and the crashing of the train with its lights still on during the whole ordeal and no one on board the train in evidence was quite amateurish, no matter how much they spent on the scene. More...
For my full review: http://xyvector.blogspot.com/2013/06/skyfall-2012-daniel-craig-judi- dench.html