12/11/12
I saw the movie Skyfall this Saturday afternoon and felt the urgent need to warn all James Bond lovers, that if you haven’t seen the movie yet, you might be disappointed if you do. I think this movie was preparing the viewer for a new James Bond. As much as I like Daniel Craig in the role of 007, it’s hard to watch him in this movie without thinking of yourself ( If you’re a BabyBoomer) and begin to realize that anyone over 50 years old could never survive the stunts or fight scenes and battles that Craig does in this movie. He’s physically fit but past his prime.
I went to an afternoon matinee and walked into a packed theatre,except for the entire front row. I grabbed a seat in the front row to get the full effect of a stunt filled James Bond movie. Shortly after I sat down a young boy of 6 or 7 years old was joined by his 60 something grandfather sat in the front row a few seats away from me. I thought of how odd an appeal James Bond movies had on both the young and old. The opening scene was one of the best in the film. James Bond was fighting a Turkish assassin on the top of a moving train. (The same scene shown in the movie trailer).
The movie wore on uneventful from there, with odd Silence of the Lambs scenes of the villain a crazed former MI6 agent who was captured and given up by M and allowed to be tortured for the release of six other agents. His strange mother / boss fixation for a woman 20 yrs older than he is, M the head of MI6(played by Judy Denche) was not only strange but sick. The only reference to sex in the movie was Bond’s brief flirtation with the Crazy MI6 agent’s captured girl friend, who is forced to live with him. Unfortunately for her and the movie the Crazy MI6 agent kills her for her betrayal early in the movie.
There are a few good pyrotechnics towards the end of the movie when he blows up his own childhood estate. It’s a strange movie, unlike all other James Bond movies. It’s slow moving in many parts and has a lousy ending. I wasn’t at all impressed with this movie, and glad I only paid a matinee price to see it.
L.A. Steel
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