Skyfall Rating: 4.33/5
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Director: Sam Mendes
Genre: Thriller
Cast & Crew: Daniel Craig, Helen McCrory, Javier Bardem
Duration: 2 hour 23 minutes
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Skyfall Movie Review
Ratings:4/5 Review by Rajeev Masand Site:CNN IBN
In Skyfall, Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of American Beauty, has delivered a thrilling addition to the 007 movie legacy, and a film that strikes just the right balance between familiarity and freshness. Hard-core franchise loyalists may argue this isn’t the Bond they grew up with. But it’s only fair that each new filmmaker who takes a stab at 007 be allowed to interpret it his own way. Mendes, for his part, does a bang-up job.I’m going with four out of five for Skyfall. Don’t ask if you should watch this film, ask when you should watch it. The answer is right away!
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Ratings:4/5 Review by Srijana Mitra Das Site:TimesOfIndia (TOI)
Skyfall is possibly the most emotional Bond movie yet, James re-visiting his childhood home, M facing her exit. But alongside its sentimentality, it has standard Bond fun - Oriental heavies, hissing Iguanas, casinos, cocktails, backless gowns, melting kisses in warm showers, sadism, saxophones and sparkling repartee. Sure, it sags slightly, gets teary-eyed and despite a hot Miss Moneypenny (Harris), its sexiness feels a tad restrained. But catch Skyfall anyhow. It's still special enough for your eyes only.Tip-Off: You won't like this movie if you never really bought that whole Bond-babes-Britain thing.
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Ratings:4/5 Review by Raja Sen Site:Rediff
Skyfall is, at heart, a crowdpleaser. The first three Bond greats -- Dr No, Goldfinger and From Russia With Love -- were like big-band flourishes, clever and symphonic and throbbing with energy: jazz, played loudly and fearlessly.Sam's film, which deserves actually to be the first of at least three, isn't as resonant or as original, but it is fabulously refreshing and light enough to have heads bobbing along, chorally humming the theme. It may not be jazz, but like its villain demonstrates, sometimes all we need is -- *pop*.
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Ratings:4/5 Review by Rashid Irani Site:Hindustan Times
Punchy one-liners, designer costumes, the best cinematography that money can buy and stunts that will no doubt be imitated extensively -- Skyfall has them all. Those who relish a slight twist to the Bond series won't be disappointed. Those who seek a mindless 007 may nitpick. It's certainly smarter than the last few Bonds that have zipped in and out of the viewer's mind. The impact of this espionage adventure lasts after it has ended.
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Ratings:4/5 Review by Peter Bradshaw Site:Guardian
As with all Bond movies, you will need a sense of humour to go with the flow, and the flow does not involve a plot in the boringly normal sense of the word: more the impressionistic effect of scenes and moments and performances – and an entertaining one comes from Ben Whishaw as the gadgetmeister, Q. In recent years, Bond fans have had to tolerate some appalling product placements: fortunately, Bond's one appearance with a certain type of lager here is with his hand firmly over the logo. The biggest commercial branding is, I suspect, for a country, China: there are massive setpieces in Shanghai and Macau, and as with the recent sci-fithriller Looper, a shrewd financial consideration may have been involved.
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Ratings:4/5 Review by Daniel Pinto Site:DNA
The film, anchored in realism, has its dry spells in terms of action. While the pacing wasn't as spot-on as it was in Casino Royale, the idea of Bond growing wary of the spy game's shortcomings, and succumbing to the temptations of putting himself above others was a worthwhile idea. Skyfall must be watched for the quality of performances that one doesn't encounter often in action thrillers. That and how it carries on a 50-year pop culture repository down a new direction while being mindful, if not overly reverential of its legacy
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Ratings:4.5/5 Review by Shalini Langer Site:Indian Express
Any which way you look at Skyfall, James Bond -- the film and the character -- have matured. If Mendes mixes it all up nicely, he is amply helped in this direction by Craig, who excels once again in his role as the 007, and a superlative Bardem
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Ratings:3.5/5 Review by Roshni Devi Site:Koimoi
Skyfall has everything going for it with the machines, action, baddies, Bond and the ladies. You might be a tad let down if you keep the previous movies as a benchmark though. Chase sequences, the stiff Brit humour, the ladies swoon into his arms: Bond is back with a nemesis who’s deviously destructive. Don’t miss this one.
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Ratings:4.5/5 Review by Avneet Ghai Site:Book My Show (BMS)
Without getting into any spoilers, the film addresses the primal question: What does Bond stand for now? The answer lies in a scene between Silva and Bond at Silva’s fortress island. Bond is challenged to a pistol duel for the life of a woman after a glass of 50 year-old scotch. 007’s fav poison, a vodka martini, shaken not stirred, would be the traditional beverage but instead an aged Macallan is the perfect metaphor for Bond now: aged to be richer and more complex with deep tones. It’s not a “Transformers” that is to be guzzled down with its fast action. It should be savored; delicate and strong to withstand the test of time. One of the best… Stunning, sexy, action-packed & superbly structured… oozes Oscar-worthy perfection.
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Ratings:3/5 Review by Xan Brooks Site:Guardian
All of which works terrifically well up to a point. Except that Skyfall then falls prey to a common failing of many 50th birthday bashes: it allows sentimentality to cloud its judgment and loosen its tongue. In so doing, it risks blowing James Bond's cover for good.
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Ratings:4/5 Review by Robbie Collin Site:Telegraph
Daniel Craig remains Bond incarnate, although six years on from Casino Royale he has become something more than a brawny cipher. There’s a warmth to his banter with pretty field agent Eve (Naomie Harris), the one-liners make a tentative return, and we even learn about the loss of Bond’s parents: the must-have back story for this season’s conflicted superhero.
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Ratings:--- Review by Nikhil Taneja Site:Firstpost
My complaint with Skyfall is that somewhere in between the entertainment, the CGI, the stunts and the twists, there was a great movie to be found. But it fell through the cracks into the abyss and only a James Bond can locate it now. This is a Bond that’s both same and different to the earlier editions, and that’s possibly the reason the movie ends up being, at once, both the very best of Bond and the very worst of Bond.
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Ratings:5/5 Review by Peter Debruge Site:Variety
Putting the "intelligence" in MI6, "Skyfall" reps a smart, savvy and incredibly satisfying addition to the 007 oeuvre, one that places Judi Dench's M at the center of the action. Refreshingly unlike the first 20 Bond installments and yet completely of a piece with the franchise's core values, "Skyfall" continues the stripped-down approach introduced in "Casino Royale," completing Bond's transformation from kiss-kiss-bang-bang action figure to full-fledged character.
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Ratings:4.5/5 Review by James Adams Site:The Globe and Mail
Skyfall is one of the best Bonds in the 50-year history of moviedom's most successful franchise. Ably directed by Sam Mendes it has all the babes, bullets, blasts, high-energy fisticuffs and exotic locales you expect. But what it really has going for it is the unexpected.
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