Skyfall

Overall, I thought "Skyfall" was a little too long in the set-up section, needed some trimming as I felt I was ahead of the story unfolding once the antagonist finally shows up, but it does pick up steam in mid-section, but seemed to drag out with less sense of menace from the bad guy and the finale lacked punch for me (sure, some decent pyro-technics, but I wanted character fireworks, but the film didn't really get there). 

The lighting by Roger Deakins is nice in that it usually looks like it's being lit with ambient lighting, so scenes look quite natural.  Sam Mendes does a good job directing, just wished I liked the script more in terms of plot, plus I didn't really "feel" Javier Bardem's presence as the bad guy as powerful as his Oscar turn in "No Country for Old Men".   Seems to me, Daniel Craig's getting a bit old to be running around as James Bond, a point that the film hammers home, perhaps he's got 1-2 more 007 films in him, and it's on to the next incarnation.

I give it 2.75 stars, or a grade of B-.