Wildly over rated, hopelessly inept

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2015)

Skyfall might have made a shed load of money but it was laughably bad. The Bond films have got worse since Casino Royale, which was a good first attempt at updating them.
QoS was lame and Skyfall was just as bad, if not worse. So clichéd, so all over the place, so riddled with nonsense.
I'm constantly amazed that proclaimed fans of Bond could be so easily seduced by the emptiness of Skyfall.
Bond the character is great, but the producers aren't interested in making him awesome through the writing or character development but rather by repeatedly telling people that he's cool, placating individuals with some empty loud bangs, ticking fan expected boxes and watering down the brand by selling aftershave.
A great example of the films woeful writing and woeful scene setting would be the sex scene with the woman from the casino. She tells Bond that she was sold as a sex slave at 13, which generates sympathy in the audience, and we then cut to a perfunctory and utterly irrelevant sex scene.
Why talk about the characters background and then not grasp that the story that you tell might resonate with the audience, making them feel a little uncomfortable and uneasy about Bond exploiting her for a quick shag.
But, as I've said before, the makers are now so lazy that they just want to tick the relevant boxes and that ticked the 'sexy Bond girl' box.
Personally, I feel for Martin Campbell. They give him Brosnan and Craig as newbies and he bangs in some good first efforts for them to get the franchise rebooted and then they hand it over to a host of pretentious directors (Sam Mendes included) who haven't a clue how to direct action or craft engaging characters.
But I guess as long as they tick box A and box B, so that critics and others can blindly proclaim a film/character 'cool' and 'badass' for no discernible reason, then they might as well keep churning out the crap.