Skyfall - A Review

5 Stars - Awesometacular

James Bond is back, celebrating his 50th anniversary with an epic new film. This is Bond as it is meant to be, sleek, stylish and fun as all hell.

Everything you want in a Bond film is here, great action, gorgeous girls, an exciting plot, a vicious villain and an Aston Martin DB5. In fact not just an Aston Martin DB5, the Goldfinger car, with the machine guns and ejector seat and everything.

Performance wise this was a strong film with a wonderful farewell performance from Judi Dench as M and one of the best Bond villains ever in the shape of Javier Bardem, who chews the scenery to a glorious degree and can be as intimidating as hell.

A fair chunk of this film evaluates the need of operatives like 007 in the new age of technological espionage, and it feels like a bit of a metaphor for the spy film genre in general, in that despite it looking like more modern films like The Bourne series might be smarter, or more real, Bond still comes out on top.

Nobody Does It Better

In short, a quality Bond film, well worth a watch.