Skyfall

Skyfall

Dir: Sam Mendes 2012

Skyfall is the latest entry in the long running James Bond Franchise. Traditionally these types of films are known for being campy, but fun. The appeal is usually the larger than life settings, villains, and extremely unrealistic action set pieces basically the audience gets to watch James Bond survive a series of missions that would easily kill a normal man many times over.

However, this is not your traditional Bond film, this is something new. Don’t get me wrong now, there is still plenty of fun settings, a diabolical villain, and huge action set pieces but this particular movie took it upon it’s to become dark, real. For the first time we get to see James Bond as a person and not just as a good looking super spy in a tux.  

The actors in this film are all marvelous featuring both new faces as well as old ones that fans have come to know and love. Daniel Craig stars as James Bond this third film in the series and it is really some of his best work, in this series as well in any of his other films. Judi Dench Returns as M for the seventh consecutive bond film.  Javier Bardem is as menacing and sinister as any Bond villain has ever been and his performance is brilliant, while he is clearly the villain there are parts of the film where the audience actually feels bad for him this impressed me.

This wasn’t just a great James Bond film; I actually think this film works as a stand-alone piece. The script is incredibly well written with intricate plot lines seamlessly weaving together. The cinematography is gorgeous, this is a movie made For IMAX and HD viewings featuring a lot of long shots of cities and interesting landscapes as well as polished action set pieces. Overall I would suggest this film to anyone.