Another one from my trip last week. My family has been rewatching the Bond series (introducing my daughter to them), and it's strange going from the nadir of the mid-late Roger Moore era to this, one of the best of the Bond series.
Dave Hill’s ★★★★ review of Skyfall (2012) on Letterboxd.com
Quite frankly, this is one of the best, if not the best, Bond films ever made. “Skyfall” walks a number of delicate lines. It has the current Craig legacy of more gritty action films (with the usual c…
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All of the Daniel Craig Bond movies are better than the Roger Moore bond movies. all three of the news ones have been fantastic with Skyfall managing to be all sorts of good with a great [redacted by the blog owner for spoilers.]
I can agree on the Craig-vs-Moore comparison, without question.
(I redacted your last comment due to a spoiler, since *some* potential readers haven’t seen the movie yet.)
I was disappointed by Skyfall. Everyone said ‘best Bond ever’, and it wasn’t. It was spoiled by the weakness of the plot in the second half- basically one big Batman Gambit by the baddie, that only worked due to a set of co-incidences that he couldn’t have predicted or engineered. All the good work in the first half was ruined.
I agree, @LH, the first half was stronger (plotwise) than the stronger. Or, rather, the middle third was the weakest.
It didn't really feel like a Bond film to me, as it eschews the formula. It was a thoroughly entertaining film, though, and even catered to us long-time fans (you did recognize the number plate on that car, didn't you?). I would recommend this to anybody, bond fan or not.
I think it felt as much like a Bond film as any of the Craig installments have, with actually more reference to the classics.
This is the first of Craig's movies I have enjoyed. The others felt to me like a reboot that wanted to deny the existence of prior Bond films.