Skyfall Reviews
Examiner.com
After all the hopes that I had for this film being the return to greatness for the franchise, I am sad to report that Bond has once again misfired.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The Popcorn Junkie
Has Bond still learning the ropes and leaning on 50 years of nostalgic gimmicks for appeal, but it could be the final step in a prolonged road to the first great Craig Bond flick
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Moviedex
Suffers from unconvincing plotting, and a third act so bad it brings the roof of the whole endeavour caving in
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Ooh Tray
Skyfall doesn't have the layers it needs to strut so casually for so long.
OK! Magazine
Skyfall is an awesome James Bond movie until it gets tired of all that, goes a little crazy and turns into a not-so-awesome Home Alone movie.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Little White Lies
The new outlook, fresh cast and leaner chassis suggest that the franchise can really kick on from here, but it's hard not to feel that Skyfall itself is something of a missed opportunity. Better luck next time, James. Again.
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| Original Score: 3/5
tonymacklin.net
Where have you gone, 007? Skyfall has transformed you from the human, vulnerable, skillful spy into a Superhero Bond. In Skyfall, Bond is part Aquaman and part Road Runner, with some familial angst pilfered from Bruce Wayne. He's become an action toy.
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| Original Score: 2.0/5
NYC Movie Guru
A bloated, tedious, uninspired, sluggish and vapid bore that can only be enjoyed by very shallow, unctuous philistines.
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| Original Score: 4.75/10
Top CriticSkyfall's fatal misstep is its slavish hewing to event-movie trends.
Tulsa World
If this proves to be a transitional film, let it be as an introduction to an agent who comes back with his sense of humor intact.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Mendes and Deakins are so busy trying to be visionary that they don't notice that characters are wandering too far from their roots, and half the time you can't see what's going on.
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| Original Score: 2/4
indieWIRE
That "Skyfall" looks strikingly beautiful may explain why it has already generated waves of positive buzz. At two hours and 25 minutes, the movie runs far too long, but has been artfully rendered to obscure its fundamental simplicity.
Spirituality and Practice
A disappointing James Bond thriller.
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| Original Score: 2/5
These are truly tedious stakes for an action movie. The franchise isn't worried about world safety. It's fretting over whether to start wearing Depends.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Cinema Writer
Who pays the price for Skyfall? Bond fans do, of course. But so does Daniel Craig. He's not going to be around forever - not in this shape, anyway.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Eclipse Magazine
"My name is Bond, Emo Bond." Is there a 12-step program for whiny, moping, bland Spies? Daniel Craig may fit the part of Bond but after 3 movies its clear he doesn't want to be there.
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| Original Score: F
Compuserve
A series that gloried in wit, irony and sex has been reduced to a generic spy thriller.
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| Original Score: C
Nerdist
...just as Marc Forster went off the rails in Quantum of Solace during that silly horse-race juxtaposition, so too does Mendes go overboard with the deconstruction/dysfunction.
