Bond impresses audiences with the best installment yet
Healani Brennan
Staff Writer
The newest Bond installment truly trumps its successors. The movie starts off with a fight scene that pulled in and captured audience’s attention and, boy, did the rest of the film hold it.
Bond (played by Daniel Craig) “dies” within the first ten minutes, leading into fantasy-like opening credits. Sticking with Bond movie tradition, it incorporated dancing women and elements that come later in the movie, including blood, a skeleton and Japanese-style dragons.
The movie then leads to an attack on MI6 by an unknown source who is only communicating via computer. This offender directly attacks Secret Intelligence head “M” (played by Judi Dench) by executing agents from a stolen list of agent identities.
Action ensues, leading to a big reveal of the mysterious attacker—an unrecognizable Javier Bardem depicting Raoul Silva. Bardem beautifully masters the psychotic character and unravels the crazy in himself to play Silva.
Meanwhile, Daniel Craig’s Bond is as badass as ever. Many hints are dropped that Bond may be too old to be a field agent and should try for a desk job. Throughout the movie, the spy steadily and brilliantly proves them wrong.
Silva wants “M” dead. He pursues killing her but doesn’t succeed. After a shootout scene in a courthouse, Bond takes M to the house he grew up in, Skyfall. A rare peek into the backstory of Bond is followed by explosions, plot twists, a surprising death and the action and intrigue that fans of spy movies crave.
Silva’s memorable exit seals Javier Bardem as one of the greatest Bond villain actors in recent years, but he is not the only new character introduced. Albert Finney plays Skyfall resident Kincade and Naomie Harris is Bond girl Eve Moneypenny, introduced near the end of the film to tip audiences off that another Bond film will be in the works.
For people that have been fans of the Bond franchise throughout, or maybe even ones that are new to the 007 world, this movie does not disappoint.
