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I saw Skyfall on opening night at an Imax theater. Beside the DB4, I thought it was a somewhat weak Bond movie, on par with Quantum of Solace.

1. The story/plot had tons of holes in it.

2. The villian was not scary at all, I more felt sorry for him. The 'creepy' popups with skulls on the computer just don't invoke fear-- maybe in the teen generation.

3. It was slow moving and long.

4. The villian made unbelievably dumb mistakes and moves throughout the whole movie. His assassin too. Let's untie Bond and hand him a loaded gun while we chug some shots. Oh, and let's assume that he has no help transmitters and we won't even search his person before bringing him to our ever-important secret lair. Could they be any dumber?

5. Craig looked old and not suave at all. His secret agent judgments were also dumb. Let's go hang out at my place as we will have the advantage of.....one shotgun and a secret tunnel vs. armed helicopters and henchmen.

6. There was no build-up, no drama.

7. There was no real bond girl who 007 wooed. The villian's Asian girlfriend who he jumps into her shower. Please.

I did like the villian's island and thought that was very cool. It kind of invoked a Dr. No situation but the villian made it way to easy to be caught. And for what? To escape? What was the point of surrendering his lair in order to hack his escape? He could have laid back and made M look foolish and then kidnapped and killed her easily. Weak plot.