Best Bond Since Golfinger

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 2013)

This is my favourite Bond movie ever made period. The film combined Daniel Craig's almost dark acting persona with an amazing storyline to create a film that I just couldn't get enough of. Unlike Craig's first Bond movie, Casino Royal, this one, although just as long, didn't drag on all day. I appreciated the quasi-criticism of calling the shots via proxy, as M did in the first scene, which saw Bond almost getting killed. Through events such as that, this film went beyond the typical action movie in it's plot and acting. With Javier Bardem playing the villain we saw one of the creepiest and oddest characters in last year's films -- a man who gained practically no sympathy from the audience. When Raoul Silva (Bardem) killed the Bond Girl in cold blood it left me in total shock and made me really hate the character -- I really wanted Bond to get this guy. The look back into Bond's childhood put this film past the superficiality of typical action movies. When he blows up his childhood house in order to stop the villain it put Bond's country and the lives of others beyond his vanity which is something no Bond has done in the past. Honestly, I thought Javier Bardem deserved a Best Supporting Actor nomination but the academy, like so often, disregarded this as a real film. In short, this was one of the best movies of 2012.