Skyfall Movie Reviews

To grow up, a man who never did must go back to where he was a boy again. So it is with James Bond. And so it must be with the multi-million-dollar movie franchise’s latest 007 venture, Skyfall. This is easily the best movie about the most influential fictional secret service agent ever. Post-Roger Moore era, though. It’s almost the equal of From Russia With Love and some of the other Sean Connery 007s. A direct comparison would be fruitless and a disservice

Any which way you look at Skyfall, James Bond -- the film and the character -- have matured. And there could have been no better hand to lead them towards it than Sam Mendes, a director who does rather well with middle-age at crossroads. His Bond is brave and brash but also beaten, bruised and doubtful. His world is grey, its boundaries fuzzy, its shadows long, its blood deeper, its characters older. At the same time, with life and death hanging

Any which way you look at Skyfall, James Bond -- the film and the character -- have matured. And there could have been no better hand to lead them towards it than Sam Mendes, a director who does rather well with middle-age at crossroads. His Bond is brave and brash but also beaten, bruised and doubtful. His world is grey, its boundaries fuzzy, its shadows long, its blood deeper, its characters older. At the same time, with life and death hanging

Popular fiction may not be dominated any more by Ian Fleming's novels. After all, for five decades since Fleming went off to the pearly gates, Robert Ludlum, Stephen King and Jeffrey Archer have spilled thrills that are more contemporary. But for sheer high-octane, though archetypal, entertainment, no one quite compares with Britain's espionage icon, who has just completed a run of 50 years and 23 globe-spanning adventures. 007 rocks, but he always has

Given the promise of Casino Royale and the subsequent disappointment of Quantum of Solace, it was clear the James Bond franchise – currently in its 50th year – needed a shot in the arm, and a filmmaker who could put things back on track. In Skyfall, Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of American Beauty, has delivered a thrilling addition to the 007 movie legacy, and a film that strikes just the right balance between familiarity and freshness

Pop goes the weasel. Literally. The new James Bond villain -- played by an alarmingly bleached Javier Bardem -- is a man given to both dramatic nuance and pomp, who describes catastrophes he can engineer with muted 'pop' sounds instead of the big booms they doubtless are, like champagne uncorked at a distance. He is as fantastical an adversary as any Bond has ever had, an ice-cold creep with delicate flair and a touch for the big occasion

Taking over reigns from the much-maligned Quantum of Solace’s Marc Forster, director Sam Mendes handily wipes the floor with all of the previous Bond movies to date. This is a new kind of Bond, neither the uber gritty Bourne-esque action star nor the gizmo pumping compulsive humping cocky hair gel model. Mendes sort of creates a hybrid of both the personalities and brings his own special flavour into the whole thing. The result is a sophisticated, surprisingly playful

"Old dog, new tricks." Naomie Harris's sexed-up Moneypenny tells Daniel Craig's James Bond. Skyfall was always about making that obvious point: Bond at 50 is an old dog good enough to learn a few new tricks. And score. It was about proving that Agent 007 in his 23rd outing- "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" and "relic of the Cold War" as M famously described him in Goldeneye- was far from his expiry date. Skyfall is the definitive Bond film of the Craig era

I say! His majesty’s old guard is back and that too with a bang. The longest running franchise in the history of cinema just got a major trophy film. Skyfall lives up to all the anticipation, excitement and promise. If Casino Royale changed the dynamics of Bond, Skyfall’s cemented them. This has all the trappings of a fancy spy thriller. It avoids all those gadgetry histrionics that were making Bond films seem rather juvenile. The film adds an artistic ethos

During the pre-credits action sequence in Skyfall, the new — and fitfully entertaining — James Bond movie, we witness in quick succession a car chase, a motorbike chase (on rooftops) that plays like the two-wheeler equivalent of the parkour stretch in Casino Royale, and just when we think nothing can top this, Bond and his quarry leap onto a train and undertake a series of manoeuvres that incorporates a bulldozer, which, as we all know

Being ‘Bond’ is a double-edged sword. If you miss a beat, you become one of the forgotten MI6 gun slingers. But if you do make the cut, you make history like Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan. Daniel Craig is almost there. For the familiar and the unfamiliar, Ian Fleming’s Bond is back on the silver screen in its 50th year. Bond (Daniel Craig) is on the chase of an assassin in Istanbul who has hacked the identities of secret agents and relentlessly follows him in a car

James Bond is back with a license to thrill and England's original Agent Provocateur is in fine form. Sam Mendes' 'Skyfall' is entertaining fare, served with dry wit and stunning visuals on the side. Bond (Daniel Craig) and agent Eve (Naomie Harris) are attempting to prevent the theft of a hard drive that contains the names of every undercover MI6 agent embedded in terrorist organizations across the globe. Eve takes a shot at the bad guy, but the bullet hits Bond

I am Bond, James Bond! It really needs no introduction beyond that. Bond is back all right, but for those who go in for over-the-top Bond action with hi-tech gadgets, a few fist fights and blazing guns and bombs, and you get the picture, Skyfall will be a tumbling disappointment. A breach into MI6 has resulted in exposing and endangering the identity of all the secret agents. The face behind this breach is someone very close to the service

Agent 007 James Bond on the 50th anniversary of it's franchise portrays lost youth, acceptance of middle-age and even death. Skyfall starts off very much in the mould of an action film - basic plot of chasing bad guys with an abundance of crash, bang pyrotechnics, car chases, motorbike chase on roof tops, explosions, hanging from buildings and etc. Half way through I thought this was going into my top three Bond films list, but suddenly all the plot potential

‘Ladies and gentlemen, I’m delighted to inform you that Skyfall is Daniel Craig’s best Bond film yet and easily amongst the top three of the entire franchise. Sam Mendes, you bloody genius, you! *Brain explodes out of excitement.*’ So that was the opening sentence of the review I had expected to write after watching Skyfall, the twenty-third film in the James Bond franchise and the third starring the very intense Craig, given that the badass trailer