I will admit right away that I am nor very much into James Bond. I do, however, occasionally enjoy action, suspense and thriller movies - so why not gibe this one a chance, especially since I saw the trailer today.
Skyfall is a pyrotechnical movie with more emphasis on the special effects department than on the development of the story.
We start right away with a chase through the lanes of Istanbul. As if they were too small, we continue on the roofs of that town and proceed later on top of a train. At no moment it is clear why Bond is chasing somebody and how the chased has qualified to be the object of Bond's manhunt. - At a point M orders a shot, although miss Moneypenny cannot guarantee a clean shot and seemingly Bond dies. Of course Bond is not dead, else we would have seen a short film. It never becomes clear how he survives, but he watches on CNN that MI6 is under attack. This wakes up his sense of duty and he reports back.
This time the evil guy is a former special agent who has a special relationship to M, almost like an Oedipus complex. He is more sick than mad, more pathetic than evil. Unfortunately the story never takes any surprising turns, there is no special twist, just boredom in the expectation that they are going to blow up something more.
In short, Skyfall is not an interesting story that has some interesting special effects, but rather a collection of assorted chases and effects that are clumsily held together by a badly written story. The dialogues of Bond are as if Schwarzenegger had been casted as Bond and all the other characters never manage to move out of the shadows of their cliches. My rating: 4/10.
Skyfall is a pyrotechnical movie with more emphasis on the special effects department than on the development of the story.
We start right away with a chase through the lanes of Istanbul. As if they were too small, we continue on the roofs of that town and proceed later on top of a train. At no moment it is clear why Bond is chasing somebody and how the chased has qualified to be the object of Bond's manhunt. - At a point M orders a shot, although miss Moneypenny cannot guarantee a clean shot and seemingly Bond dies. Of course Bond is not dead, else we would have seen a short film. It never becomes clear how he survives, but he watches on CNN that MI6 is under attack. This wakes up his sense of duty and he reports back.
This time the evil guy is a former special agent who has a special relationship to M, almost like an Oedipus complex. He is more sick than mad, more pathetic than evil. Unfortunately the story never takes any surprising turns, there is no special twist, just boredom in the expectation that they are going to blow up something more.
In short, Skyfall is not an interesting story that has some interesting special effects, but rather a collection of assorted chases and effects that are clumsily held together by a badly written story. The dialogues of Bond are as if Schwarzenegger had been casted as Bond and all the other characters never manage to move out of the shadows of their cliches. My rating: 4/10.
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