Bond stripped back the way Flemming may have wanted him

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2012)

This is Bond as he's never been seen before. I had to see Skyfall twice to be sure that I liked the way that the movie sets up Bond for the present and the future.
Ian Fleming always wrote Bond as an agent who gets out there and gets the job done by any means possible, with no gadgets just brawn and a dogged determination to complete orders. The trio of writers behind this story have done a fantastic job of stripping back Bond to his base elements and showing him as Mr Fleming once did in his novels, as was done with the first Bond movie to feature Daniel Craig.
Skyfall is a very good story married to some excellent direction. There are a couple of tacky moments that I would prefer not to have included but they do not deter from the overall experience.
Can't wait for the next installment.