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007 completely rebooted
PostedNovember 11, 2012
FriendOFlicks
from Humble, TX, USA
Age:35 to 44
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:once every few months
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The latest Daniel Craig Bond movie is a good action flick in its own right, but completes the reboot trilogy of writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade setting the stage for the future of the franchise.
In developing the back-story of Bond, with Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and now, Skyfall... the writers have reintroduced Bond and explained his tendencies to a new audience, such as his preferred martini mix and why he can so easily, if a bit callously, get past the death of the woman in the story. Skyfall introduces a new Q who offers only two very simple "gadgets" as opposed to the usual 3 or four and we still see a rough, raw, bare-knuckles bond rather than the uber-cool, ultra-suave lady killer.
The villain isn't threatening the world as much as he is MI6 and Bond's rather warm relationship with M, played by Dame Judi Dench. The stakes are more personal to both Bond and the audience, as our fears for the future of a franchise rest not in the forever forty-something Bond but in the aging, damaged field agent whose fitness for service is being questioned by everyone but M. When the gravitas and personal issues dealt with in these last 3 Bond movies breaks, I think we will see a return to a more casually cool Bond who has the experience once again to get out of more fist fights than he gets into.
If we're going to see more from Daniel Craig, it will have to be as a return to the conventions of the debonaire, spy who lives more by his wits than by his braun. And if so, we'll be that much more prepared for a callous, fearless, even funny Bond, knowing what he's been through.
Skyfall stands a good movie and a necessary step in the Bond reboot. It may not look much like a typical Bond movie, but, after all, do we need to keep seeing "typical' Bond movies?
Pros great actors, necessary story line
Cons lacks bond conventions
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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