Not your typical Bond film

Rating: 8/10 (2 November 2012)

Every new James Bond film that comes out claims to be the "best Bond ever," and even if "Skyfall" maybe isn't the best ever. Its certainly one off the better ones. As well as being the best one for a while.
Some may argue that "Casino Royale" was awesome. But I was underwhelmed by it almost as much as everyone else seemed to be by Daniel Craigs second outing as 007 in "Quantum of solace" (Which despite having the worst title ever, I thought was better). "Skyfall" is trying to capture again what worked for the best in "Casino Royale." It has the plot focus on the earlier days off Bond and gives the character an interesting back-story. Starting off by getting the over the top action out off the way, before getting on with telling a more realistic plot.
"Casino Royale" had way too much card playing for my liking. But despite "Skyfall" having a similar slump a mere half hour into it (I'm not interested in seeing Bond get laid again. Get on with the ACTION!) most off the film works for the better. The action is nearly always interesting, and builds toward a great finale. Something which a lot off Bonds get wrong by having Bond invade yet another bad-guys fortress. There's a successful jokey side to the movie. Another thing the series can sometimes get wrong, and this Bonds good eventful story, shows you they've really pushed the Boat out in not wanting this to be "Just another Bond film."
It may go a little overboard with trying to be modern but then again the Aston Martins appearance makes up for that, and the films so full off surprises you can almost forgive it for having a camp bad-guy and some terrible CGI iguanas in it for some reason.