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Originally Posted by Tapioca

To be honest, your review completely missed what Mendes and Craig are trying to do with Bond.

The reason why Skyfall is not only a great Bond movie, but just a good movie, is that it places Bond in the uncertain socio-political context that we live in today:
- Uncertain enemies (no longer countries, but ourselves)
- Technology vs. old-school methods
- The relevance of spy agencies, like MI6

Yeah, it could be argued that Bond has gone all Dark Knight, but you know what? Such movies are more satisfying for today's more sophisticated audiences than just a bunch of one-liners, gadgets, and scantily-clad women.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa...let's just back this truck up just a tad here.

First off, I COMPLETELY understand what Mendes and Craig are trying to do with Bond. I like the darker, more human Bond. They just SUCKED at doing it.

I like Daniel Craig as Bond, I like the acting in the film, and the casting, cinematography, locations etc. But the way it was put together sucked. If you read my review, you would see that I talked about how the story and action is linear and boring for the most part. Do today's "sophisticated" audiences deserve played out, predictable stories with expository dialogue ans shitty graphics?

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If you're going to have his death be a part of the movie, make it actually matter. He doesn't use his anonymity at all within the story and just immediately comes back. Why doesn't this matter more in the film? If he's down and out, sure that's fine, but he was DEAD. DO SOMETHING WITH THAT.

And Bardem's character was awesome, but unlike Goldeneye, which built a relationship with 006 at the beginning, Bardem just appears out of nowhere with no history with M, other that what we are told. How close were they? What caused him to go from good to bad so fast, and why can't we see some of that?
But also, he could have killed M by blowing up her office when she was there. Problem solved. And then he plans to be caught, and then escapes?? Not only is this the oldest trick in the book, but he could have done everything he did without getting caught first, and saved us from that ridiculous plot line.

I don't mind if there aren't one-liners, gadgets, and naked women, necessarily; but make the story good enough so I don't notice these things missing!!!

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And you're right, what is the relevance of MI6 if they are stupid enough to leave all of this sensitive info on one hard drive? (and why is the anniversary Bond film stealing a plot line from Mission Impossible?)

Read the first few pages of IMDB user reviews...you will all see that I'm not alone in my opinions. In fact, having read them after I wrote mine, my review missed out on many other glaring problems.

I think I would have preferred this movie:

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