generic, johnny-come-lately, action hero that trashes the legacy

Rating: 3/10 (23 February 2013)

was disappointed with Skyfall﻿. It was OK, but it was a generic action movie, and to put it into the James Bond genre just felt awkward, there were too many cheap and nasty tricks to try to make it fit with everything that went before.
specifically, what on earth was going on with Moneypenny. she's supposed to be an AO or EO or HEO civil servant with Developed Vetting Clearance not some failed field agent (who'd I would expect to make a shockingly bad secretary). she's not supposed to sleep with bond, just flirt, the knickers are supposed to remain firmly on because she's smart enough to know she's not that sort of girl.
Richard McCarthy﻿ was correct, Judy Dench is a joke as m. which is soul destroying to admit as Judy is a national treasure. but her performance in this was comically poor.
too be honest if I were Sean Connory and had watched this I'd have been super irritated at how they just trampled over all of his legacy.
I think, too be fair, if anything in the film industry needs to be rebooted it needs to be the bond franchise, which has become too generic and has frankly lost its way.
restart it from the beginning, set it in the era that it was written, between 1953 and 1966. have bond be as biased, bigoted and misogynistic as he is in the books so that he becomes and anti-hero (the wrong man doing the right thing).
I think if this was achieved we'd have a daring, gritty and dramatic bond, rather than some generic, cookie-cutter, johnny-come-lately, action hero.