Skyfall(2012)- User Reviews

One of the things I found enjoyable about Bond over the years was its formulaic plot and how it would take you on a fast paced espionage action-adventure roller coaster, even if it was a campy 80's one. Skyfall breaks the mold and tries incorporate elements of other succesful franchises to bland out bond instead of the other way around. There are clear borrowings from Mission Impossible 1 (the plot device), The Bourne Identity (Skyfall scene) and even Silence of the Lambs (Bardem) and very little Bond-essence. I guess when you run out of books from Master Flemming and try to appear creative you need to borrow from others, but in an effort to avoid creativity and invention they simply take a minimalist attititude, with no gadgetry except for a throwback car, no wizardry, and no imagination except how to inject another homosexual scene into 2 out of 3 Bonds (maybe there was one in Quantum of Solace but I feel asleep).
The latest films lack a credible enemy or organinzation and with the enduring PC craze, it is improper to villify a country or organization, and Bond is no exception. No Cold War and God forbid we talk about any terrorist outfit that is presently at war with the US as a villian, makes this piece a personal vendetta one but lacking the charm and wit of something like The Man with the Golden Gun.
Once again the plot steers to the sentimental side of Bond and to me it also fails at that level.
This film will appeal to the visual audiences who fall for movies with grand aesthetics whether or not their is anything else, but for those that are cerebrally entertained, they will think this is plain Aw-Fall.