'Skyfall' movie review

WOHOOO! I actually managed to review a movie pretty early in my stuck up country (just for comparation, we're getting Cloud Atlas on November 22nd)! Oh, wait, nobody cares because Disney bought Lucasfilm. Anyways, Skyfall is the 23rd James Bond movie and I've been having real jumps in the expectation. I've seen all of the Bond films except Diamonds Forever and Quantum Of Solace (don't ask me, how I remember that) and I generally liked the campy Pierce Brosnan Bond movies the most. The image of Bond with flying cars, Bond fucking random girls, Bond drinking his drinks shaken, not stirred, that image of the character simply burned itself into my head. I've seen Casino Royale, the dark, brutal and realistic feel to Bond and I've liked it, but was simply too used to youknowwhat. So I actually haven't been expecting this movie (I've actually never planned to see it until a few weeks ago) much, because I tought it would simply a dark, brutal and realistic James Bond movie. I also haven't heard a lot of good stuff about Quantum Of Solace, so I didn't really give a shit. Thank god the excellent trailers made me change my mind.

So Skyfall blasts off with an intense chase scene in which, as we all saw in the trailers, a female agent accidentally (or unaccidentally, muahahaha) shoots Bond and causes him to fall into a river. Our minds are then slown down with an mesmerizing, vintage opening title sequence and then again thrown back into a 2-hour-and-20-minutes, but never boring Bond adventure. Skyfall somehow manages to create a perfect mix of the classic Bond and the Daniel Craig Bond. For an example - I've always hated Judi Dench as M. I don't know why and not really in that usual way, but describing the way I hate her can only be explained with a metaphore, only fewer people will understand, but I'll try. I feel the same to M in the Bond movies as I feel to Phillip Broyles in Fringe. You know he has to be there, you know the actor's doing a good job, but he just pisses you off and you know he shoudn't. In this movie, they actually made M relatable and a human character. They've also made Bond human and actually sentimental, which isn't exactly common.

So at one hand you have these humanized and realistic characters, but Skyfall still is no Casino Royale. You also have humour, effective, but not too cartoonish, you have a few gadgets and technology thingies, but not too much. You also have these great references to the franchise itself, so Skyfall really feels like the James Bond movie of the 21th century. It's fresh, it's modern, it has innovative and cool action sequences, you have humour and characters, you just have it all. I don't exactly think that Judi Dench deserves an Oscar for this like some people say, but she was standable, which is an improvement for me (again, not saying she does the job badly, it's the character's fault). Javier Bardem is an amazing villain, on an unsteady mix of creepy and funny at first, but menacing right in the next scene. The movie is action-packed, but not mindless, intelligent, but not artsy, entertaining, but not campy and unarguably one of the best (if not even the best, I don't remember all of them so good) James Bond movies of all time.

Total rating: 9 / 10

So what did you think of Skyfall? Do you prefer the dark or the campy James Bond? Who is your favourite actor to play him? Comment below, let me know!