The Bond film that made me leave the franchise

Rating: 1/10 (28 May 2016)

I've been watching the James Bond franchise my entire life. Always anxiously awaiting the next Bond film about every couple years or so. I began to lose some interest beginning with the 3rd Pierce Brosnan film, "The world is not enough". I didn't even finish watching that Bond film because I was so bored and because of that, for the first time ever I didn't even see a Bond film, Brosnan's last, "Die another day".
Daniel Craig got hired and I was more than willing to come back to the franchise. Boy oh boy was I glad I did as "Casino Royale" is one of my favorite Bond films of all time. Contemporary Bond? Yes. But they blended in everything about today's world perfectly, especially the fact that Texas Holdem was probably at its height in popularity at that time. Craig's 2nd film, "Quantum of Solace" can be described as nothing short of a yawner.
Now comes the 3rd Craig film, "Skyfall". About a month or two before it's release, all I kept hearing was this great hype, "this is going to be the best Bond film of all time"!
Well not only could this statement be further from the truth, it is the polar opposite as I am of the opinion this is the worst Bond film of all time! My main issue with this film (aside from the weak plot) is the word credibility. I know whenever we sit down to watch any film but especially a Bond film, you have to have an open mind and let yourself be entertained. Bond films are going to have crazy stunts, gadgets, getaways, etc. throughout the film, but there is always a redeeming quality of credibility, to a certain degree anyway. What Sam Mendes did as the director of "Skyfall" completely insulted my intelligence as a moviegoer and as a human being! The average Bond film will have a handful of scenes that are not credible. In "Skyfall", EVERY scene is not credible! I guess Sam Mendes said to himself, 'it doesn't matter how incredulous any scene I include in the movie is, people will watch it, they'll buy it, because it's James Bond'. This movie is a complete and utter embarrassment to the franchise. I won't get into all the details of the movie but the 3 that 'stick in my crawl' I'll share.
1. Bond should have been dead after the opening scene so the film should have been about 5 minutes long. 2. The way they have Silva escape MI6 HQ is a complete and utter farce as he just literally walks out unscathed amongst 100's of agents as well as the most sophisticated security on the planet. 3. The ending is an utter joke, Bond, M and an old man gamekeeper decide to holdup in a broken down shack of an estate as sitting targets, barely armed, with no backup close by! Please!
Thank you Sam Mendes for doing 3 things: 1. Making me leave the Bond franchise for good, 2. Making the worst Bond film in the franchise, 3. Aside from being a James Bond film, you also made one of the worst films of all time, period!