Film Response - Skyfall (Directed by Sam Mendes)

3.7

The Bond franchise has never particularly been my cup of tea. In some of the older stories I found the plots little bit sexist, it was as though a lot of the time women were temporary accessories to his arm: eye candy, I am aware that there is M who is a strong female character but a few more couldn't hurt. I also have found the villains to be rather two dimensional and repetitive, their frequently foreign and have some form of medical flaw, such as a scar or a dodgy eye, (for example in Skyfall, Silva is Portuguese and has a false jaw), of course this is not always the case but it does happen in a majority of Bond films; therefore these reasons many of the films do come across xenophobic. In addition the plots seem to only end in a climax that consists of a huge fight scene which seems to me like an dues ex machina to me.

However I found Skyfall to be different and more enjoyable from the past bond films. I found the character to be a little more developed and to cinematography much more pleasing. I think I respond in this way because of how different Skyfall is the any of the other films; we see bond regaining his strength/skill instead of just maintaining it. One character I particularly enjoyed was  Q (played by Ben Whishaw), His acting was superb and the character added some much needed comic relief during parts of the film, It was refreshing to have a sweet and reserved character in between all the violent action scenes; he was British sophistication itself.