A very disappointing movie

Rating: 3/10 (9 November 2012)

Let me start with the fact that I don't find this movie so bad because it's different from other Bond movies - it's just a bad movie. The main character could be anyone else and the movie would still be an example of how a bad script can ruin even the most ambitious project. Skyfall is flawed on so many levels it's unbelievable that someone thought this script is anything else but a pile of junk.
**SPOILERS" The plot just lacks clear idea and goal. It starts off good with a nice over-the-top action sequence and the missing list of undercover agents and goes straight into the gutter. There are just too much plot holes and bad dialogues. We have the super "scary" villain Silva with MI6 training and astonishing hacking skills, who is said to always get what he wants but he lives on a deserted island filled with junk and ruins and he has a couple of computers on two tables and 3 guards to keep him entertained while his sex slave is away drinking in a casino with his other 3 guards. Come on... you can't be serious! We have M , who has no field experience, makes a lot of bad decisions and clearly she feels she's not responsible for any of her mistakes and the "Shadows" are to blame. You just want her to die already. Actually, she should have died right away but at least the writers made the right choice in the end. Q is a stupid teenager who invented the security system that Javier Bardem used to hack MI6 with ease because apparently Q has no idea of its flaws. And also, if he is not going to make cool toys for Bond then he's just a geek with a computer and nothing more - he's not Q. Mallory is a good character with potential and will be a way better M. He knows what is like to be under fire or captured and tortured and will probably take a lot better decision. MP also has potential. Yeah, her character in Skyfall is different but in the next movies she can make witty remarks about Bond's missions rather than just casually flirt. I hope their characters will be developed more in the next Bond movies. Bond looks tired, lacks his usual witty humor and all of his one- liners are chilched and appear to have been written by a 10-year old kid. He doesn't care about the girl, he doesn't care for his life. He's not saving the world, his initial return from the dead was because he though Great Britain was under terrorist attack but that turned into babysitting M. He had a good life away from MI6 and he was free. The entire plot of Bond protecting on his own the woman who betrayed him while she could have been surrounded by MI6 agents is plain stupid. Well, that's it for the characters. As far as the story - it just sucks. The plot with the undercover agents and the list never develops. The bad guy had potential but they made him look a little bit insane and completely clueless of exactly what he wants to do aside from making M feel miserable. And his plan to kill her was just hilarious and wasn't worthy of his advertised level of intelligence. The creators of the movie thought that if the script is heavily based on the "shadows" and the "rats" metaphors then Skyfall will be gritty and dark but it isn't. Going back to Skyfall does nothing for the plot and the character development making the title of the movie completely irrelevant. It's not truly Bond's home. Bond and Silva aren't brothers with M as their mother. They are just two agents, who were betrayed because their lives mean nothing to M and a couple of shots when M looks concerned aren't enough to prove any attachment she might have.
To summarize - we have a villain, who has been plotting his revenge for years but his final plan is hilarious. All the conversations are plain and stupid despite the creators trying to make it seem like Skyfall has deep meaning and is dark and gritty. Overusing the metaphor of the rats doesn't make the movie anything like the Dark Knight. Bond is miles away from his charming, witty and heroic self. There is no plan for world domination, there is no Bond girl to save - Bond is just babysitting M and he's doing a bad job.
I think 3 stars is a fair score as I liked the opening credits.