You know what bugs me? When you watch a movie and it's not really logical. I took the family to see "Skyfall" last night., the latest James Bond movie. I did enjoy it, and the family enjoyed it... but I just can't recommend it too heartily unless I tell the person I'm recommending it to that they have to suspend reality for a few hours.
My wife says "it's a movie!", like I'm suppose to be satisfied with that. But, at the very beginning it shows very clearly that Bond is shot while fighting the "bad guy" on top of moving train and you see him flinch after the shot is fired (from a fellow British agent because she was told to by "M" to fire the shot 'cause the bad guy has a critical list and.... oh, nevermind, it's hard to explain). Anyway, he falls about 200 feet into a river and then you see his body flow down a steep waterfall and then he drifts to the bottom of the river as Adele sings her tune. Well, I know and you know he's not dead otherwise there is no movie. BUT, there was NO EXPLANATION as to how he survived. That bugs me. Suddenly he's in bed with some Turkish woman., absolutely no reasoning as to how he met her, how he recovered, and how he got a strange Turkish woman to bed so very quickly ?! Not logical.
Another thing. Towards the end of the movie they lure the bad guy to a home in the Scottish countryside (called "Skyfall"- get it ?- and the symbol on the gate entrance is a Buck, which I'm not sure how that ties into the name Skyfall) and it turns out this was Bond's boyhood home. Well, they lure the bad guy with Bond, "M", and then the old caretaker shows up (who, by the way knew Bond as a boy- Of course !) Wouldn't you think they'd be a little bit more prepared knowing this guy is going to show up with an army of bad guys, "bent" on killing "M" and then torturing Bond ? But no, they have three people, one antique shotgun, a dagger, and rigged explosives made from ceiling lamps. (It's hard to explain). Also, a beautiful Aston Martin 1960's era that gets all "shot up" and "blown up" making me cry in my popcorn
Another thing. When they first meet the old caretaker, it's explained that the house has been sold. Well, by the end of the movie that house is an exploded inferno thanks to an attack helicopter that shot about 2000 rounds of machine gun fire, about 5 hand grenades (That Bond rolls away from without a scratch by the way- Why should anyone be afraid of hand grenades,they don't seem to do much to human beings ?) and then Bond uses what looks like a pair of old propane tanks and a few sticks of dynamite causing an explosion that resembled a nuclear bomb, not 30 year old sticks of dynamite and two old propane gas tanks. I found myself wondering how the new homeowners are going to explain this to the insurance company, and will they be covered? Can you imagine the claims agent wandering around those ruins? Yes, these things run through my brain.
Anyway, I give the movie a 4 out of 5 stars. It loses the star for not being very logical. Good flick, though....
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