(http://nl.metrotime.be/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/james_bond_skyfall_wallpaper_by_sparco2-d5kzcux.jpg) Over enkele weken draait de film eindelijk in de bioscoop: Sam Mendes' Skyfall, de eerste James Bond in vier jaar tijd. Op het web duiken ondertussen de eerste recensies op van de opvolger van Marc Forsters Quantum of Solace (2008). De meningen lopen vooralsnog niet enorm uiteen, aangezien de critici uiterst positief gestemd zijn. De één noemt het "de beste Bond film ooit", de ander is wat behoudender en maakt vergelijking met de Batman films van Christopher Nolan.Een greep uit de eerste reeks recensies, via Collider: Digital Spy: Skyfall's clean, direct narrative, blistering action sequences (a neon-lit Shanghai showdown deserves to be singled out) and strong performances across the board elevate it to the upper end of the Bond movie spectrum. There may be an awful lot of Heineken and a few minutes too many, but you won't walk out of this disappointed. Turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks. The Times: Skyfall is a great British bulldog of a movie. From the moment the orchestral sound of Adele belts out, sending a nostalgic shiver down the audience's collective spine, we know this will be a triumphant return to classic Bond. Sam Mendes, the director, deftly balances fanboy worship of 007 tradition with sophisticated film-making, and (apart from early Connery), nobody does it better than Daniel Craig. The Playlist: There are some other missteps along the way. At nearly two and a half hour, the film doesn't drag, but it feels a little over-extended, particularly in a climax that doesn't quite live up to what went before. A couple of green-screen shots, especially early on, are a little ropey. And while the nods to the series' past in its 50th anniversary are welcome, some come across as groan-worthy rather than clever (there's one moment in a Macau casino that feels like it must be a deliberate nod to the more out-there moments of theRoger Moore era, because we can't see what it's doing there otherwise...) But Mendes get a lot more right than he gets wrong, and in the process has found a confident new identity for the franchise — not afraid of its past, but not chasing its competitors, or being scared of the future either. It might take another viewing of each to see if it exceeds "Casino Royale" as the best since the Connery days, but at the very least, it makes clear that, after the disappointment of "Quantum Of Solace," that Bond is back, and he's not going anywhere. [B+] |
Written by ADELE and Paul Epworth Skyfall is the official theme song to the James Bond film of the same name. |