The sky might be falling, but Bond is raising.

Rating: 8/10 (29 March 2013)

I most admit, I need it to watch this movie twice till it touched me. First time around I got really bored with it, and did not cared much, did not even finish it. Than many of my friends told me its great, and I heard M dies, how actually annoyed me in this movie, so I thought I give it another shoot, and it worth it, second time around it was much more enjoyable.
Few things I don't like it has it sequel/prequel confusion, like the joke about stuff we get use too in the 50 years of Bond movies, jet again the movie suppose to happen before all of those... but once You accept this its not bad.
I also think it was kinda a waste of potential to kill of the villain, he was interesting, challenging, his own skill sets, would have made a good reappearing villain... but oh well.
And yuh I kinda felt the shoot from a moving train, fall to a river was a bit overkill... but its bond... stuff like that happen. It would not even the first time Bond faked his dead.
Anyways... what I did like in the movie:
1) I kinda liked while it kept some of the unrealistic factors, like Bond can run faster than explosion and stuff (which lets just face it, its annoying, but now its so over used in action movies we would miss it if scenes like this would not make a appearance) Also it tried to be more realistic, no scenes like 20 thugs shooting on him from few meters, and none of them can hit him...
2)this is kinda links to the 1)... I loved how the New M, New Q, and Eve played a role as supportive team to Bond. It was still Bond how did the major part of the work, but this characters got his back, and aided his work. Which made him more realistic, than the one man army how can solve anything all by him self.
3) (the second time) I actually liked that he need it to be tested to accepted back to service. It shows that this agent's including Bond needs to verify there fitness and not just a natural born killing machines but they where highly trained to be able to handle there duty's. Plus its kinda linked to it, when he meets the girl in the bar, he puts together the picture from observing the girl, and spotting a tattoo on her. Which shows a side of Bond which I was missing from the few previous movies, the fact that his very intelligent, and have a huge knowledge about many things. His mind is as trained, as his body is.
4) the plot I loved that it was some what a simple goal which the villain was trying to reach and not "take over the world/destroy the world" and only James Bond can stop the end of the world from happening. I always enjoyed it when Bond faced more realistic simple task, like racing with time to get back a decoder, or stop a villain to take control over a field, or a stop a rubbery which could cripple the economy. Now and than a saving the world plot can come along based on Bond skills and job, but not in every single bond movie.
5) I also loved that we had a peek in Bond motives. The fact that he was a orphan raised to be a agent makes tones of sense. Not only in his extra skillfulness wise, but also explains why is he so uncorruptible, since his only true emotional bounds is towards the agents and his country. Extra point for hinting his Scottish, which I take as a reference to Connery, hows my all time fav Bond.
Overall this movie even if it toked twice to watch to come trough is a very fine work of 007 movie. It aims for more realism, beside not fully losing the magic of bond able to survive almost anything. It give more depth and role to M, Q and Moneypenny and got them involved in the plot which is good. I would love to see more hints, scenes about how Bond trains his body and mind. Plus more well written story's where the stake is not to save the word...
Plus... since this happen before Dr. No... dose that means Blofeld is still alive and kicking in a possible sequel? =D I would love too see him return in to James Bond movies, or if not him, someone similar to him. A reappearing character, how can challenge Bond to his limits, and also very skilled in skipping dead. Think that's one of the thing which Bond movies lack for a long time, a well developed, reappearing villain