Scotty Newton - All Round Entertainer

Skyfal l: Bond on Bond *SPOILERS* This is a great movie, but it’s not a Bond movie. Where do you begin on Skyfall ? Apart from this is not your typical Bond. People were hopeful when Oscar Winner Sam Mendes was brought in to tackle everyone’s favourite super spy. Hopeful that we would get a smarter, deeper and more emotional Bond. And yes, we definitely got a smarter, deeper and emotional movie, but this wasn’t Bond. Is this a good thing? Is this what the ongoing franchise needed? And was there a genuinely good reason this approach was never taken before? Bond: Old dog, new tricks The first chapter sees Bond and new recruit Eve in a typical, over the top chase sequence, which results in Eve smashing up her own car and shooting Bond, with him being assumed dead. This is the only sequence in the entire film that wouldn’t look out of place in the previous 22 movies. Mendes is criticising what the Bond movies have become. That Expendables -esque over the top,...