Skyfall- Maybe a 6.5/10. MINOR SPOILERS THROUGHOUT
I'm not very upset about this one, but it didn't really do much for me. I thought some of the scenes were done well, and others not so much. I had the same reaction to MINOR SPOILER bond girl's past as a sex slave as 005. It made me think of the scene in the shower with Vesper in CR where he MINOR SPOILER, just sits in the shower and puts his arm around Vesper while she cries.
This was my reaction to it: either James Bond is a fantasy character that hits every unnamed target he shoots at (boss fights last longer) and survives 300 ft falls into shallow pools, can drive/pilot anything, shrugs off bullets and never ages- all in a Tuxedo with perfect hair... or he's something more real, who gets old, gets shot by accident, only gets a gun from the quartermaster, and has the PM asking whether he's relevant in today's cyberworld. In other words- he's Jason Bourne.
In this movie, he seems to alternate betwixt these two and you're never quite sure which one you're seeing. Back to the sex-slave girl- in one scene, the gritty reality of the dark and nasty things that real bad guys do to real people in our real world, and in the next scene she's just a hot chick that's wanted Bond since the moment she saw him. (Just like every other chick.)
Do these movies take place in the real world, or not?
However (this is where I get positive) I did think that it was extremely clever and totally surprising that while I thought I was watching the continuation of a James Bond prequel, I was actually watching a stealth reboot of one of my childhood favourite series. When they showed Bond's parents' graves and they said Peter and Kate Mccallister, my mind was litteraly blown! So, they finally confirmed that Bond is, in fact, a code name given to each 007 they recruit and that this Bond was, in fact, once Kevin Mccallister! GENIUS!
As I said on facebook- not better than Casino Royale and not more enjoyable than Battleship.
I could go on about the plot holes and contrivances that took me out of the film (I think, due to the mixed tone of serious real world/fantasy) but you can find those elsewhere.
Conclusion- too silly to be serious, too serious to be fun.
P.S. "Haha! Take that! He's ROBIN, FRINK'S MOTHER!!!" Didn't work for me here either. But the last 10 seconds were cool, if a bit headscratching when accounting the logical implications.