Movie 2012.12.10 - Skyfall

Not one of my favourite Bond movies. The pace of the movie feels slower. There is less gadgets, less cars, less girls, and more talk. The dialogue is sharp and witty, but the plot is weak.

In this installment, Bond (Daniel Craig) is pitted against an old MI6 agent Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem), who has gone rouge a few years ago. Silva is out to get M for betraying him to the Chinese. He starts off by stealing a list of undercover NATO agents and revealing their identities on YouTube. Then, he hacks into MI6 and later firebombs the HQ. Bond captures Silva and brings him back to MI6's new underground offices. While trying to decrypt Silva's laptop, Q inadvertently lets some malware into their network, allowing Silva to escape from his cell. Silva barges into M's tribunal hearing and shoots at her, but was foiled by Bond. Bond snatches M and drives off to Scotland in a vintage Aston Martin. At the Skyfall manor house, Bond and his trusted gamekeeper Kincade and M set up booby traps around the place a la Home Alone. The bad guys come and there are explosions everywhere. At the end of it all, Silva is killed by a knife in his back, and M eventually dies from a gunshot wound.