Great movie to watch for classic fans

Rating: 10/10 (10 November 2012)

Skyfall is like a throwback to the first Bond flick Dr. No. This movie is the best of the Daniel Craig Bond films so far, and that is very understandable as it seems to be part of the storyline. When M referred to 007 in Casino Royal as a rough tool she was correct and in this work he is a lot more refined and targeting.
This is not Pierce Brosnan's overly refined overloaded on gadgets bond this is Sean Connery's rough gritty hard edged bond and a homage to that work as I have never seen before. This is the James that I have missed a great deal. Don't get me wrong many of the other movies were good in their own way, but if you have watched them all recently you can see the bond is very different person through out.
I would say that Craig is the most like Mr. Connery that I have seen to date. If you like the classic bond I suspect you will love this movie because it takes so many parts out of it that it is amazing. The story line is very easy to follow if you have a mind to do so and the action is gripping. We did not even realize how long the movie was until we stepped out.... Well the wife realized she had to go to the washroom but refused to leave the movie for fear of missing a moment of this film.
Like all bond films believability has to go out the door when watching and I think the shocker for me was that M was the bond girl in this film. No he did not have sex with her, but that is not a requirement to be a bond girl at all. For those who do not get it I think you need to watch it again and pay attention to what was going on and why. Think of the Daniel Craig movie's as a prequel to Dr. No and then you might start seeing the pattern. It is not about just this one movie, but all of them stringed together very well.