Skyfall

Still miss the old posters, but at least the barrel is there.

Film 23 and the 50th anniversary of the movie series since it was released in 2012. A bit hyped in Sweden as the the villain in the beginning was a Swedish actor. Begins with a mission where Bond is shot by one of the MI6 snipers (who later turns out to be a Moneypenny so establishing that character as well). Bond is presumed dead and M and is being questioned on how the mission could fail, the bad guy got away with some computer that I guess contained information about NATO agents as such. After a briefing on their way back someone blows up the MI6 building and begins releasing information about the agents. Bond watching in a bar in some village in Turkey or around there, travels back to London and begins the search which leads to South East Asia and some casino in Macao that takes him to some abandoned island.

Turns out that the bad guy is behind all this is some former MI6 agent named Silva who wants revenge after he was captured and suffered from an old cyanid capsule as he tried to take his life. Seems the pain drove him insane. Bond takes him hostage and back to London. Turns out that was part of the plan as the new Q looking into Silvas computer finds a virus that releases him and enables him to escape as a subway cop in order to infiltrate the hearing where M is questioned in order to kill her. Bond arrives in time to save her and take her away and gets his private Aston Martin and drives to his ancestral home Skyfall to fight Silvas off. The grounds keeper, 007 and M fights them off, but in the end M is fatally wounded, but Silva stills bites it. 007 returns to MI6 and meets the new M, Ralph Fiennes that have been in the movie all along.

It might be that I watched them all in a row for a very short time, but I'm getting bored by these movies. Besides that I don't know why. Maybe that I don't care about M which makes the whole emotional weight of the movie rather pointless for me. Cause the conflict is more with her, it has nothing with international politics or such things. They try to put it as a fight between the old and new as MI6 and spies are not needed with the dawn of the internet and such and the cold war ended 20 years ago. And I can see that, but as things like Snowden and Wikileaks proved, you still need someone to give the information away and if you want it from the enemy you need to get in there. Cause a fact was that Wikileaks only released information from the western world since those where the once that where willing to let out the information, none from Russia and China so it pretty much only hurt the western world. Now, don't get me wrong, it showed the hypocrisy and evil things that was committed by what we call democracies and want to have higher standards for it.