Ten years have officially passed since one of the best James Bond films ever made has been release as well as staring one of the best actors to ever portray James Bond, yeah that is right I said it, I said that Daniel Craig portrayal is the best and only great James Bond ever put on screen so all of you classic Bond fans can SUCK IT! Ten years ago, I must admit I never really thought much of Skyfall other than it was a great film and really all of Daniel Craig's Bond films from Casino Royale and No Time to Die are better than the past Bond films, but now re-watching this great movie I've realize there was a ton of great story elements that I completely missed for which I was blown away just revisiting. So, without further ado lets dive right into the resurrection and greatness of Daniel Craig's version of Agent 007.
When James Bond's (Daniel Craig) latest assignment goes terribly wrong, it leads to a calamitous turn of events: Undercover agents around the world are exposed, and MI6 is attacked, forcing M (Judi Dench) to relocate the agency. With MI6 now compromised inside and out, M turns to the one man she can trust: Bond. Aided only by Eve (Naomie Harris), Bond takes to the shadows and follows a trail to Silva (Javier Bardem), a man from M's past who wants to settle an old score.
As a kid growing up with sixties and seventies inspired parents when it came to pop culture I've always been familiar with the character of James Bond in fact my Dad loved watching the Roger Moore films he would always turn them on TNT when there was cable, hell I remember watching Goldfinger for the first time realizing Sean Connery played him and was also the first to portray him on screen, moreover but in all honesty never really was quite interested in the character mainly because Bond as a character through the years of film was always portrait as this all cool super spy who is indestructible and always gets the girl at the end of every film, which is fine but wasn't all special to be honest for my taste, especially when it happens every movie moreover making some of the corniest one liners ever (I though Christmas comes once a year). It all changed though when Daniel Craig became the new Bond and I've soon discovered the name Ian Fleming (author behind 007), whose stories and creation of the famous 007 brought a success and movie franchise to life, though it was 2006 I found out that Bonds adventures where all based on books, for which lead to Casino Royale and introduction of Daniel Craig, who to me was the greatest 007, mainly because when I first read the first book and the movie it was based on I found a more different tone to Craig's performance who played bond as more of a grittier Bond whose not a perfect Agent who makes mistakes and is not all perfect as is predecessors and tells all the woman his life he's got no time for love, for which finally leads us to Skyfall. With Craig's third time around you see him more as a broken-down man with what he once has been gone from him and this time we see more of a test of loyalty with him, and his boss M played by Judi Dench. I will admit Judi Dench was the true M for me growing up and though she played the character through Pierce Brosnan's run, but through Brosnan's run as 007 she always treated him as a boss, and in Craig's run she always treated him as a son she never had for which brings an interesting chemistry between these two characters once they go to Bond's home land. The other thing in what makes this film great is that we have a perfect villain out of Javier Bardem whose character is not a typical Bond villain whose out for greed and power but is out for personal revenge on the very agency who betrayed him, though what makes Bardem's performance is that you really sympathize with his character almost like an insane version of Bond and that's where both of them are so great that they both are the same person but the only difference is that Bond would never betray his principles when it comes to loyalty no matter how immensely broken it's become. A side from the great cast the real stars are the two men behind the camera, I'm talking both Sam Mendes the Director of Skyfall and his fellow collaborator and Cinematographer Roger Deakins, who worked with Mendes four times including this movie, I always thought that it was a Director’s job to paint the movie and tell the story all by itself but in all honesty it takes a lot of great collaborations with your camera men as well as your Cinematographer, almost like Christopher Nolan with Wally Pfister and their collaborations with The Dark Knight Trilogy, the Prestige and Inception. Granted this was both Mendes and Deakins first ever Bond film, but in all honesty that really didn't stop them from creating one of the best Bond films out there, because the way those two were able to create great shots and actions sequences where a stuff of legend from the great long camera still of Javier Bardem's opening monologues to the great final action sequence that felt like a dramatic painting coming to life. Now to all of those out there that are hardcore Bond fans, I will happily challenge any of you and prove to you that Daniel Craig's Bond films from Casino Royale to No Time to Die are better than any of the past Bond films and why Daniel Craig is better than its predecessors, now for concluding with Skyfall to me it's a tie with both Casino Royale and Skyfall as the best of Daniel Craig's run as 007, and the rest can share the second, third and fourth. Now, if you are ever wanting to be adventurous or not a Bond fan, I would highly recommend watching Daniel Craig's run as Agent 007 and just avoid watching the past predecessors, because now after watching Craig's final ride I have to say that I can't watch any of the future films or follow their successors.
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