Skyfall-Breakaway Bond Film
Sorry! It took me a long time in coming back, but then have not been able to watch too many films in the last two months, due to terrible travel schedule. But during my month stay in Europe I was able to watch a lot of Ray (Satyajit), about which I shall discuss in a separate forum. The latest edition from the James Bond franchise is truly a breakaway film and Sam Mendes has done justice to the theme, film and the script. Infact, it might have taken a whole lot of guts from the owners of the James Bond franchise to be approving such an genre (actually it is a genre unto itself). After Sean Connery, Daniel Craig has easily been the best thing to happen to James Bond. Sorry Pierce Brosnan! And he takes forward the legacy and how. To me Daniel Craig had arrived from the classic chase sequence shot stylishly in Madagascar for Casino Royale in the opening sequence of the film. That to me set the tone for a whole new theme of Bond films, which brought back the vintage Bond (read S