Skyfall

I was looking forward to this one. The general opinion was good to great and I'd deliberately avoided any reviews..

It started off well. The pre-credit sequence reminded me of 'Casino Royale' and I thought "this looks promising.."
Then it slowed down... I've only seen one Sam Mendes movie (American Beauty) which I enjoyed.. This on the other hand.. Don't get wrong, I didn't hate it. I put it down to the Bourne films. The action in those is constant and punchy, and as a result I expected it with this film too. In my opinion this film was too long. If they'd chopped it down to an hour and a half..
It had good points. Javia Barton (?) was particularly good/creepy and locations were excellent.
In fact, the more I think about, it wasn't that bad.. Perhaps I'll watch it again without Graham 'sighing' and yawning constantly...
Overall ***1/2

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