Skyfall

Daniel Craig   d/Sam Mendes

Hadn't seen a James Bond film in many years. Friends said...you should see this one. It's really good. So I gird my loins and turned it on. Opening sequence...wildly absurd chase nonsense which ends in JB seemingly killed. But, no...of course he wasn't...the movie just started. So we're now at the level of all those wonderful serials I saw at Saturday matinees as a kid. Perils of Pauline, Rocketman, et al.

Thereafter unfolds cynical handlers, bleached blond supervillain, a fight in a komodo dragon pit, attacks which kill hundreds including a parliamentary hearing in progress, blowing up a Scottish castle and Judi Dench dying. How many building guards were shot in this movie? How much did the blond guy pay those morons to get shot dead my JB-superman?

What is all this about? This is James Bond #23. All have the same arc. JB never dies. Cubby Broccoli died years ago. Sean Connery has gotten old. The cold war is over 20 years now. And yet this 'series' continues unchanged.

Well, now I know. Never again.

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