Skyfall

Skyfall is a 2012 British-American spy film and the twenty-third in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. The film is the third to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond and features Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the villain, and Judi Dench as M. It was directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan and features the theme song "Skyfall", written and performed by Adele. It was theatrically distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.

Plot
When James Bond's (Daniel Craig) latest assignment goes terribly wrong, it leads to a calamitous turn of events: Undercover agents around the world are exposed, and MI6 is attacked, forcing M (Judi Dench) to relocate the agency. With MI6 now compromised inside and out, M turns to the one man she can trust: Bond. Aided only by a field agent (Naomie Harris), Bond takes to the shadows and follows a trail to Silva (Javier Bardem), a man from M's past who wants to settle an old score.

Why You Should Let the Skyfall

 * 1) The whole climax at Skyfall manor, with Bond, M, and Kincade taking on Silva's goons. Bond creates a bomb that hits one of their helicopters as it crashes into the manor. It's a bit bittersweet, but that was one pretty sweet explosion.
 * 2) *Bond casually kicking a dead henchman's weapon up into his hand during the siege with an air of complete annoyance on his face - you can just tell he's thinking "Why won't these morons just give up and die already?"
 * 3) *Three words. "Welcome to Scotland!" What makes it awesome? Said Scotsman is just a groundskeeper and game hunter for Bond's family. Yet he manages to take on Mooks armed with the latest weapons and tactics with nothing more than his old hunting shotgun and survive!
 * 4) Thomas Newman's score is excellent. He deservedly became the second composer to get nominated for Best Original Score, following Marvin Hamlisch for The Spy Who Loved Me.
 * 5) * Adele's glorious theme is on its way to becoming a modern classic. It even became the first Bond credits song to win an Academy Award. "Let the sky fall..." Adele and James Bond just seemed like a match made in Heaven anyway, and she got the most comparisons to the legendary Shirley Bassey for a reason. Even more impressive as she'd just recovered from a vocal chord strain that left her barely able to talk for months.
 * 6) ** The title song by Adele wound up being the very first James Bond theme to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Its popularity ever since is on par with Shirley Bassey's medleys.
 * 7) *"We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
 * 8) * If you could somehow express the concept of Mythology Gag in musical form, you would probably wind up with "Breadcrumbs".
 * 9) *"Boom Boom" by The Animals. Silva, being a Bunny-Ears Lawyer extraordinaire, naturally had to customize his gunship with a wall of huge loudspeakers to play the song as he attacked Skyfall manor.
 * 10) The opening title sequence lets the viewer know that it's all getting serious in the best way possible.
 * 11) The very end, with Bond being given his next assignment by the new M, reassures the audience that the adventures will continue. It's followed by the classic Bond Gunbarrel Sequence, followed by a large gunbarrel icon with "50 Years" in the middle. Underneath it, the iconic words seen after every Bond film: James Bond Will Return.
 * 12) Funny moments here and there:
 * 13) * Bond getting shot by Eve. It was such a spectacular failure that it goes beyond being shocking and then becomes hilarious. There's also the fact that this happens a little over 10 minutes into the movie, so no one really expected him to actually die anyway.
 * 14) *When Bond returns, he does so by once again breaking into M's home and waiting for her in the dark when she walks in. What's funny is when she turns the lights on, he squints in pain implying they were off cause of his hangover.
 * 15) Silva is a very threatening villain and his plan is executed really well.
 * 16) Sam Mendes' directing is fantastic that it feels good for that.
 * 17) Daniel Craig's performance as James Bond is awesome.
 * 18) It is a huge improvement over Quantum of Solace, due to the storyline being better and making the editing not so choppy, and without this film, Daniel Craig's Bond era would've ended on a not very sweet note.
 * 19) M's death at the end is really memorable and sad.
 * 20) Fantastic cinematography.
 * 21) Awesome pacing.
 * 22) Unlike mh:awfulmovies:Die Another Day, it respects the Bond franchise in a good way since it celebrates the 50th anniversary really well.
 * 23) Nice locations that fit really well with the movie.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) Séverine is presented as a prostitute who has been trapped in the trade since she was a child and Bond rescues her and even develops a slight relationship with her. Sadly she gets killed off the following morning, and in the second act no less. As such we never got to see their relationship and her character as a whole fully developed.

Reception
Skyfall received highly positive reviews. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film received an approval rating of 92% based on 384 reviews, with an average rating of 8.20/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Sam Mendes brings Bond surging back with a smart, sexy, riveting action thriller that qualifies as one of the best 007 films to date." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100 based on 49 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade filmgoers gave the film was an "A" on an A+ to F scale.

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