Skyfall (2012)
Skyfall (2012)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Director: Sam Mendes | Country: USA
Genre: Action, Thriller
IMDb
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1080p Blu-rayRip | MKV | AVC @ 12.8 Mbps, 23.976 fps | 1920 x 800 (Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1) | 2 hr 23 min | 14.4 GB
Audio 1: English: DTS 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit) @ 1509 Kbps | Audio 2 & 3 (details in Media Info) | Subtitles: English (2 streams), Spanish, French, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Estonian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Chinese, Ukrainian
Director: Sam Mendes | Country: USA
Genre: Action, Thriller
IMDb
Skyfall (2012)
Skyfall (2012)
Skyfall (2012)
Skyfall (2012)
Skyfall (2012)
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The MacGuffin that starts Skyfall rolling is a hard drive containing an encrypted list of all covert agents embedded with terrorist organizations. Someone has stolen it, and Bond (Daniel Craig, on his third outing) is leading a team in Istanbul to recover it. His chief support is a new field agent named Eve (Naomie Harris), who, on direct orders from M (Judi Dench), risks a shot at the operative who stole the list, a sleek assassin known as Patrice (Ola Rapace), and hits Bond instead. Bond plunges into a raging river and is presumed dead. Patrice escapes with the list.
Cue an inspired credit sequence by Daniel Kleinman, whose idea was to imagine Bond's life flashing before his eyes, accompanied by the sound of Adele singing her Oscar-nominated-winning title song.
Three months later, the encrypted list has yet to be recovered, and both M and MI6 are under scrutiny from a government bureaucrat named Gareth Mallory (Ralph Fiennes) and, eventually, an official inquiry in Parliament led by MP Claire Dowar (Helen McCrory). As the fallout from the loss of the list turns deadly, Bond sees news reports on the island where he has been secretly recovering from his wounds, and he resurfaces.
But Bond finds that both he and MI6 have changed. The organization he once knew has retreated into an underground bunker last used by Winston Churchill in World War II. The new Q (The Hour's Ben Whishaw) is a skinny computer geek who, as Bond puts it, "still has spots". And Bond is no longer treated with reverence since his Lazarus-like return from the dead. Instead, M and Mallory force him to requalify in the most basic skills, including marksmanship, physical stamina and psychological stability. They're not wrong, either. Bond barely passes (if that).
Clues from the Istanbul encounter allow Bond to track Patrice to Shanghai. The trail then leads to a casino in Macau and an exotically beautiful woman, Sévérine (Bérénice Lim Marlohe). Only then does the real adversary, Silva (Bardem), reveal himself and begin to unfold his true purpose, for which the encrypted list of covert agents was merely a tool. Since there are still those who haven't seen Skyfall, I will limit myself to saying that Silva once worked for M, bears a grudge, and wants her to suffer.
Bond, who has always had a special relationship with M (though not necessarily of the friendly variety), goes all out in her defense, battling Silva on the ruined island where he makes his headquarters, pursuing him through the London Underground after a daring escape from what should be an impregnable prison cell, shooting it out with him in the sacred bastions of Whitehall and, ultimately, luring Silva to a remote location in Scotland for a final reckoning. The last junket involves a very special "resurrection", that of the famous Aston Martin DB5 first seen in Goldfinger, which Bond retrieves from storage precisely because it's old and therefore has no GPS tracker attached to it. (Of course, the real reason is for Bond fans to cheer its appearance, which they do.)
Bardem, who won an Oscar for his intimidating portrayal of the killer, Anton Chigurh, in No Country for Old Men, here creates a very different kind of villain: charming, flamboyant, a sociopath who takes a gleeful joy in his "work", whereas Chigurh never cracked a smile. If Chigurh was terrifying because he was inexorable, Silva frightens because he's entirely unpredictable. It's not that he's random exactly, because he always has a plan. But only Silva knows what it is.
Some viewers have groaned at the realization that yet another Bond story turns on the discovery of a turncoat, present or former, or a double agent. They yearn for the days of a true Big Bad as a Bond villain, an Auric Goldfinger or a Blofeld. It is only fair to remind viewers that Casino Royale featured Le Chiffre, a financier to terrorist organizations, and Quantum of Solace was entirely about the mysterious organization known as QUANTUM, which recalled SPECTRE in its scope and ambition. As for the rest, espionage, since at least the Cold War, has always been about "turning" members of the other team, while guarding against those on your side being turned. In his very first Bond novel, Ian Fleming included a double agent that Bond did not discover until the final pages. Other, more prosaic writers of spy fiction have built entire works around moles and double agents, e.g., John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Silva, at least, was sufficiently enterprising to go out and build a massive criminal empire over a span of fifteen years before returning to take his revenge on M. He became what Bond might have, if, as Mallory suggests at one point, he'd chosen to stay dead.
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