Soap opera Bond, entirely overrated.

Rating: Null/10 (30 November 2014)

It's just ironic how this Bond film"Skyfall" gets a 7.8 rating here on IMDb and yet almost 90% of people's reviews are all negative?.
I happen to like the first two Bond films with Craig as Bond. I never liked Brosnan at all, but Craig really created a more charismatic Bond almost as Connery did in the "Doctor No". I remember years back reading a article I read in the Calendar of the LA Times reading an article about Craig picked as the new James Bond and how the whole franchise will restart from the beginning with "Casino Royal" and it was a great concept and they really pulled it off with a director Martin Campell who kept the film interesting because it was focused on developing the character of Bond again rather than just action packed scenes.
"Quantum" that was the sequel to Casino Royal that again set up another super power evil corp "Quantum" which as "Doctor NO" did with Spector. Bond films have always been about spying to discover these kind of people with power and criminal intent, I think Skyfall departed with that concept when they planted the seeds of "Quantum" in the first two films and and suddenly it became a soap opera about M in Skyfall with some deranged lunatic's taking revenge on M?.
Even the last film "Quantum of Solace", as much as it was scorned it was still far superior film compare to this turkey "Skyfall" which really is among the worst Bond film to date right next to the "Timothy Dalton" Bond series.
I happen to like Sam Mendez as a director for films like "American Beauty" but I think this Bond genre was way over his head. He was just all over the place; there was so many bad scenes that just hang on the screen, Bond was absent being Bond, the soap opera with M and her reciting poem in court was just awful. What are we watching here people?. I liked the idea of introducing the new "Q", but maybe someone older with a sense of humor, rather than the college nerdy look whose screen presence was just annoying to say the least. Even the casting of the new "Moneypenny" is just a miscast, again Naomie Harris is a great in other films I have seen her in but sorry not as Moneypenny?.
From the first action scene where Moneypenny shoots Bond by mistake but still has enough time to shoot the villain and she pauses; I had a feeling from that scene alone that this film is heading the wrong direction. Then there is the absence of Bond being dead and where we have no idea how he got rescued by whom?. There are scenes where he is dressed as a some limo driver in the airport and following a guy and it was just so lame, the time we spent watching him in his car and driving to the airport and waiting with sun glasses was a waste of screen time for a Bond film. Theree was another scene where Bond is captured with Silva's men, Silva has a gun in his hand, then there is a helicopter and Bond manages to disarm the Silvia's men but the next shot Silvia has no gun in his hand?...I mean how can a director like Mendez screw up a shot like that on a huge budget film like this?. Those fight scenes in the casino were just so lame and so poorly choreographed as if you are watching some B movie, it was just awful and boring to watch. There was just continuous tedious scenes when Bond is trying to hide M, by getting his old Austin Martin and that old house in the country, it just was a waste of screen time going no where. In the entire history of all the Bond films M's character was just a minor character that appeared in maybe 4 scenes in the entire movie,but ever since they cast Judie Dench as M, then M became a major character in the Bond series.
It's amazing this genre or franchise has lasted this over 50 years, when all the books Flemming wrote were made already. Craig was a miracle to restart the Bond franchise for a whole new generation but I guess today's audience is not concerned about story as the Connery generation was. They just want to see if Bond will save the world by killing the bad guys. "Skyfall" had potential for a great Bond film but it really was a disaster and yet it made so much money and had great critic reviews; which goes to show how much BS can studio shovel with the right marketing to this dummy down generation.
I just read Mendez is directing the next Bond film, I bet even he was surprised he was picked to come back. This time they are introducing the oldest Bond nemesis "Ernst Stavro Blofeld"; I dread to think how Mendez will manage to screw that up too?. Ever since Brocolli's daughter took over managing the Bond Franchise she has made some really bad choices; she just does not get the Bond series like her father Cubby did.
The Bond films ended with Roger Moore, that was all the Bond books, what we have now is a mutated butchered studio version of what Flemming had written who would be rolling in his grave if he knew a two hour Bond film was spent on M.