A cast away from the traditional Bond movie structure?

Rating: Null/10 (6 December 2012)

Seeing it top the box office in its first week and hearing the great reviews on the movie by professionals and magazines, and the admiration at the newly designed, subtle yet powerfully alluring poster - I had high expectations for this third film - and yet I was kind of let down.
As the movie began I was engaged immediately as the Bond that we all know began his daring mission. I was engaged in action of the movie, astounded by the feats he enacted, and I was impressed and in awe at the style and the coolness (achieved in the past two movies also) which Bond portrayed in his daily activities - that being jumping onto trains, or being shot at or...whatever else that Bond gets up to.
However, after the first hour or so I felt that the typical Bond movie stereotype (espionage, the roles of the seductive lady counter part, the action scenes etc. etc.) were slowly becoming more infrequent. The espionage was still there - of course. But the Bond story could have taken many different turns to make it a much more audience engaging story line - like Silva, his evil part seemed to end rather quickly like the whole 5 names every week thing died quickly, you only got to glance at his high tech computers and glimpse at the power that they had. Another thing that I thought was rather strange for a Bond film was the lady. The seductive lady, which Bond is, of course, attracted to immediately (his fatal flaw) meets him in an instance then dies the next day... she comes and goes like the bullets that he fires out of his gun. Shouldn't the plot, likening to the past movies, kind of follow this fatal flaw of his which ultimate leads to her death (or departure) in the end...? Another little bit which I thought very 'un-Bond' like was the skyfall scene. It is not like Bond to reside in a house waiting for the enemies to come, setting out traps for easy switch on kill-streaks. No, he's supposed to be getting out there on hands and knees and punching the living daylights out of the bad guys.
I rated it a six due to its not fulfilling my expectations of that typical Bond movie. Is that what the director was trying to achieve? to be different from the rest - who knows, but it didn't tickle my fancy. The six stars I award to it goes for the great beginning scenes and the brilliant acting by all cast members - they pulled it off smoothly and effortlessly.