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Skyfall (DVD, 2013)
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Daniel Craig does an excellent job in this last outing for dame Judy dench. An excellent romp, with feels and spills galore. Probably the best bond film in decades. Thank you.
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This is not a traditional Bond movie, in which Bond confronts & challenges an evil villain, to protect the world and keep the British end up. Here, it's ex-agent Silva who confronts M, whom he paints as the evil villain. Bond & M are reactive & not proactive, with Silva continually on top. Silva succeeds in hounding M out of MI6 Thames HQ, a wartime command bunker, the Houses of Parliament, and Bond's ancestral home. Silva succeeds in his mission to humuliate M, and bring about her death. Although Bond survives and takes revenge on Silva, the end of the film makes it clear that something essential has changed. At best, this feels like a 3-1 defeat for Bond. So, anyone looking for a feelgood action movie should go elsewhere. Only the most conservative viewer could maintain that the traditional Bond plot could benefit from the occasional change-up. However, Skyfall goes far beyond this, into the realm of symbolism and political comment. Early on, it's made clear that M is no longer a human character, but the incarnation of Imperial Britannia. Her speech to Parliament seeks permission to continue to protect British interests in the old ways. With her humiliation & death, director Mendes wishes to signal the end of an epoch. The final scenes, in which Bond is given new work by the new M, are only necessary for the continuation of the franchise. Mendes has made his point. Politically, oblique reference is made to the bad press the Labour government and the UK security services received during 00s war on terror. The government of the time continually wheeled out security chiefs to shield themselves from liberal political criticism, and M is shown in this capacity. Both the end of Britain's imperial role and it's ruthlessness with its servants are exemplified by the story of Silva's betrayal by M, just before the Hong Kong handover. Finally, M's death in Scotland, a year before the independence referendum, brings the end of empire very close to home. More delicately, Bond is sent up as pale, male, & stale. Apart from being ineffectual, compared to Silva, he's nearly killed by young, black, female agent, Eve, who also toys with Bond, removing his white, middle-aged bristles with a cut-throat razor. Later, she suggests it's time he took a desk job. Finally, the priorities of the franchise prevail, and it is she who takes the desk job. Thus, overall, Mendes's message is to undermine both Britain & Bond. This suggests a suitable target for Bond's next mission. In the real world, I would advise that this film be deleted from the Bond canon, and treated like an off-beat oddity, such as Niven's Casino Royale. Read full review
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It's good to have a good collection and compilation of the Daniel Craig era. This is a good film if you prefer the idea of not having too many Bond girls around.
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Disliked Goldeneye but not Skyfall. Much better story, production, Bond (Craig) and his one liners, Dench as 'M', RIP, and Albert Finley's Kincaide stole the show.
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great bond movie judi dench - daniel craig great combination
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