Bond No. 23 is in safe hands with the halfway-to-arthouse director Mendes, but this being a Bond film, staple requirements must be met and so the impact of any new arrival behind the camera will always be tempered, just as the value placing any object of real interest in terms of talent in front of it is compromised by the basic brief. Here, the latter onus is on Javier Bardem's camp pseudo cyberterrorist, and of course he delivers good charming and menacing at the same time, but it's always a case of watching all of the cast including Judi Dench, and bar only Daniel Craig, who gets free rein, soldier on with one hand tied behind their backs.
Skyfall belongs, then, in the better echelon of latter-day Bondage, with a moderately involving set of twists and a game stab at providing credible danger for the unkillable hero, but it does these films no favours to praise them to high heaven merely for managing to eschew daft gadgetry and refrain from blowing anything up for ten minutes.
6/10
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