Fan fiction made into a big budget movie

Rating: 4/10 (22 March 2013)

If you are looking for a smartly plotted spy flick, this is not it. To reference another film, this movie merely attempts to insult the intelligence of anyone who attempts to watch it.
Some of the biggest problems stem from the technical aspects the writers chose to ignore with regard to plot devices. The main antagonist is a ticked off ex-spy with a penchant for hacking computers. So far, so good, until said ex-spy is given the ability the make computers misbehave in cartoonish fashion. He can access secret and secure networks that are not (or at least not in the real world) connected to the outside internet. He sets off an explosion in a secure building by hacking into the gas delivery infrastructure, which also seemed a bit silly and contrived. The main implementation of computers and networks in the plot is as magical technology the bad guy can command at will.
Toward the end of the film, an armed military helicopter with the bad guy and his armed degenerates flies across Scotland to attack Bond at the old manor. Are the residents of Scotland accustomed to seeing this sort of thing? It's not a remote atoll or middle-of-nowhere location where the attack takes place, it's Scotland.
Speaking of the Skyfall manor, the film made a strange detour into Home Alone territory with the defense of the location. The attackers were written as complete idiots, ala Home Alone, and I can't imagine the script writers did not notice the similarities.
Overall, this movie might barely be worth a one night check-out from the Redbox, but don't expect much.