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Skyfall (2012)
Maybe my expectations were too high. You cannot blame me for that. After all, it is the 'larger than life' film of Bond, James Bond, and in his 50 years of existence after Dr No. Maybe because of his two prior convincing performance as a spy in Her Majesty's service fighting baddies in a swashbuckling never-say-die attitude, I expected more cliff hanging moments from Daniel Craig.
50 years into its inception, Fleming's hero had snowballed the creation many copy cat spy thrillers and heroes and its successors have tried and managed to outdo him. (e.g. Indiana Jones, John MacClane of Die Hard fame)
Skyfall starts on a promising note with no nonsense straight to action scene with its trademark 'cat and mouse' chase in the busy bazaar,streets of Istanbul, the less affluent roof tops of old houses all the way atop a moving train till our hero is ordered to be shot at by a direct command from M (Judi Dench). Our hero is hit, falls deep into the ravine and river and the beginning credits role in...
It was a scene a bumbling spies, failing to recapture a stolen hard disc and fallen agents!
After that its pace got too slow for my weary body, after a long days' work whilst squeezing in a 8km run in between.
MI6 gets bombed, M's job gets into a limbo, Bond manages to meet the man behind the theft of the stolen disc through a few high adrenaline scenes.
Then things quieten down as M and Bond has a final showdown a the manor named 'Skyfall' in Scotland where Bond grew up. M dies in the duel. Bond reinstates his post under a new boss and we discover a new Ms Moneypenny.
Mmmm...through the twilight of semi snooziness state, I managed to get the gist of the movie. Somehow, I had the feeling that I was not engrossed into the movie, just watching from afar. There were a few memorable witty dialogues, however. There were a few jibes at the youthfulness of the new techno-geek Q and age related jokes. And the recurring glass bulldog menagerie in Union Jack colours that survived the bomb blast in MI6!
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