Well worth the wait.

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2013)

I am in my opinion the biggest James Bond fan, I own all the movies on bluray and have an old set of dvds and a few VHS's so I am always pumped for a new Bond movie and after four years the movie I've been waiting for forever finally came. After a big four year gap between Bond movies Skyfall finally arrived and completely wowed me. I must say though there were a few things that brought me down a bit but there were many more excellent things that made up for it to make this movie spectacular.
MI6 is in crisis and with an ageing Bond who appears to have lost his step everything seems to be going nowhere but down hill. On top of all that it seems that Bond feels he can no longer trust M but due to an unknown terrorist Bond will do anything to fight for his queen and country. Everything is put to the test, Bond must overcome feats he never expected to experience and go head to head with his most ruthless villain yet.
I'll begin with the storyline; I found the storyline was the best part of the whole movie. The amazing test of trust plot between M and Bond absolutely blew me away and couldn't have been portrayed much better than what was produced. Also the good guy turned bad was a great touch and also the back story between M and the main villain Silva was really an eye snatcher and really will keep your attention throughout the whole movie. The whole betrayal storyline really took me in and was the real wow factor and how by the end questions are resolved and rivalries are fixed and disaster strikes really makes this movie what it is.
Once again we are met with an excellent cast with of course another stellar performance by Daniel Craig as James Bond; I really enjoyed his darker performance as Bond, just the way he portrays Bond as a broken down agent who seems like he's at the end of his rope and will never be the same due to his age and newer generation. Also his big back story showing why he is how he is really made Craigs performance even better. Arguably the best performance is Javier Bardem as Silva just the way he is so sinister and pure evil, and how he will do anything to get his revenge on M just really makes him the most interesting and well done character. Judi Dench as M was wonderful. Dench gave her best performance as M and just the way she played as the boss who everyone thinks needs to retire and can't handle the job anymore was really well done and Dench deserves a standing ovation. Now here was one of my down sides in the movie Ben Whishaw as Q, not that he didn't give a good performance, he's a great actor and did a wonderful job I just really don't like the young Q it really made me feel sour but I think it's just because I have to get use to it.
The action sequences were really well done, the best was probably the motor cycle chase at the beginning. My second down side was the special effects, they were bad and you could easily tell it was fake. Although special effects were below par the action sequences and everything else made up for it.
So in the end Skyfall was a great movie with an amazing storyline with tremendous actors. I feel they will have to do a lot to top this one but I have nothing but confidence that they can. So make sure that if you're a James Bond fan or even just like a really good action flick give Skyfall a watch.
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