100% Rating: Is Skyfall The Best Bond Movie Ever?

100% Rating: Is Skyfall The Best Bond Movie Ever?

Sam Mendes must be feeling pretty smug right now. The director of Skyfall, the latest James Bond movie, has scored an impeccable 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes reviews site.

This will make excellent Monday morning news for Mendes, as well as the movie’s stars. The cast list includes Daniel Craig, of course, who plays the lead role, as well as Helen McCrory, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem and Dame Judi Dench.

Skyfall has received a resounding round of applause from critics across the board; even the most cynical of movie reviewers seems to have struggled to find any cracks in this latest offering from the Bond franchise. Writing for the Hollywood Reporter, Todd McCarthy wrote that Skyfall “Feels more seriously connected to real-world concerns than any previous entry, despite the usual outlandish action scenes, glittering settings and larger-than-life characters,” making the movie a credit both to its scriptwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan. Equally, Variety’s Peter Debruge remarked that Skyfall puts the “’intelligence’ in MI6. Skyfall reps a smart, savvy and incredibly satisfying addition to the 007 oeuvre.”

Kate Muir of The Times remarked that Skyfall is a “resurrection” for 007 and it certainly seems that way; what could quite easily have been a re-hash on Bond films gone by seems to have been injected with new energy and a recognition that modern audiences like their action movies to be imbued with a little intelligence these days. Brute force just isn’t enough anymore, Bond fans need a little brain with their brawn and it looks as though Mendes has done a good job of supplying both.