Went to see Skyfall Wednesday. Not as good as Casino Royale, but better than Quantum of Solace. Reprising the DB 5 was worth the whole movie.
My opinion only, of course...
My Thoughts on SF:
1. Pretitle sequence is a mess. We had Bond arriving at a hotel room in Istanbul, with a dying 00 agent slumped in the chair, and then Bond calls home to receive instructions. He then gets in a vehicle driven by someone else, a field agent. Then he is reportedly killed by the same dithering field agent who had to receive instructions from a command center to fire a weapon. Did anyone bother to search for his body? How long did they wait before they sold his possessions, a week? We are then told by M in a parliamentary committee that the purpose of the 00 section was to “fight the wars in the shadow”. If two 00 agents and a field op could not recovery a simple hard drive in a hotel room, how are they going to fight SPECTRE? Contrast this with Dalton-Bond 25 years ago in The Living Daylights where Bond is relatively alone, no earpiece, using the skill and knowledge entrusted to him as a 00 agent in Bratislava, in control of his situation, making split seconds decisions on matters of life and death, right or wrong and without regret.
2. Bond and Severine. No chemstry. Was she just the ferryman who was supposed to take Bond across the river Styx? They had more energy and interest in the Heinenkein ad.
Me too. I loved it. The filming in the Highlands was exquisite.