Great spy/action film, lousy Bond film

Rating: 7/10 (18 November 2012)

I always click the "may contain spoilers" option in case I let something slip, but I try not to do so. Skyfall was a great action flick. Well put together, extremely well-filmed. The director was a little too crazy about using lots and lots of glass for my taste, but that's okay. But it was not a good Bond film. There was a tremendous lack of gadgets from Q. There were no great Bond-style lines. The Bond chicks were very few and far between, and their roles in the movie were minimal at best. There were a number of familiar themes taken from other movies, but I'd rather not list them here. And certain aspects of the storyline just kind of got dropped off for no apparent reason. Change the name "James Bond" and any other names (or letters, like M, Q, MI-6) that associate Skyfall with the Bond franchise, and the flick is pretty solid. As a Bond film, though--bleah.