Guest Blogger: Nick M1

At first looks a high school English teacher might argue that the latest James Bond movie is in fact not a character driven story, but looking passed the gun shots, fight senses and huge explosions we find that the real focus of the story is the character that after 26 movies we still don’t know all that much about. The new movie Skyfall is all about James growing older and his struggles with athletic performance as well as mental health other problems that men get as they start aging. We also finally get to learn about Bond’s past, where he grow up, what happened to his parents and many other smaller questions us as viewers and James Bond lovers might have. Another person we learn more about is the head honcho of MI6, M, and how her past decisions come back and bite her in the butt, which makes Bond question his value to the agency MI6. For the first time in many 007 movies we see Bond chasing after one main villain, in my opinion he is one of the greatest 007 Bad guy’s that there’s been. Silva, the main villain, is played by Javier Bardem who’s wonderful performance makes us laugh at the things he says and does one moment and then cringe and realize how totally insane he is the next moment. Now after all this I’m sure you’re wondering “what about that great 007 action we all love” well the answer is, it’s still there! We see fight sense that in the past where a mess and sometimes hard to follow but in the movie Skyfall the fight senses are like a very well choreographed dance. Overall the movie Skyfall is a wonderful character pasted installment to the James Bond series which I for one enjoyed with a passion.