Вот еще один ракурс : почему нет прежних тех. примочек и обилия погонь - бесполезно “Skyfall” offers portents of the end, of the possible termination of 007 (Daniel Craig) and also of the Tennyson-quoting M. (Judi Dench); and it suggests, too, the looming irrelevance of M.I.6, which turns out to be not the powerful center of intelligence but just another station in a world of infinitely hackable networks. The Bond movies offered the exhilarating freedom of travel—James caressed by soft breezes and swaying palms—but distance is now meaningless. Evil may erupt wherever there’s a computer. It’s certainly no longer confined to a place, like China or Russia or an underground redoubt or a tropical island, where an unspeakably malevolent genius with precise diction threatens to take over the world. Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2012/11/12/121112crci_cinema_denby#ixzz2BWMKuWIO