Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Film: Skyfall directed by Sam Mendes

I saw Skyfall at the cinema, and it was pretty good. It did feel a little like a series of set piece stunts linked up by a background plot - but that does not detract too much.

As always the stunt scenes are really well done. A lot was made of us hearing a little more of Bond's background - but that was quite weak really.

The product placement was not too bad - I missed the Heineken bit which they paid so much for. Also they found a good balance of showing iconic representations of text messages rather than using it as an opportunity to product place a mobile phone handset (which date so quickly as to age a film prematurely).

I feel they played a bit too much on Bond "getting old", a bit absurd that - also leaving them less room to manoeuvre on subsequent films.

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