James Bond (Daniel Craig) is tracking down a man who stole a list with all the agents information on it. He is assisted by Eve (Naomie Harris) and after a very long crazy fight between Bond and the man with the list, she is able to set up a shot to try and take him down. It's not a clean shot though and there is a great chance she might hit Bond. M (Judi Dench) tells her to take the shot. She does. And she ends up shooting Bond who falls off the train and into the water below.
He assumed to be dead by the agency when in fact he is living life in some remote area where all he does is drink the days and nights away. When the list becomes public and agents start dying, he goes back to London to track down the man with the list and end the killings. But he has to be reinstated again and take all the original tests. Although M says that he has passed all the tests, its clear he was struggling the whole time. They hook him up with some new gadgets courtesy of Q (Ben Whishaw) and send him out into the world.
He manages to track down the man he was fighting earlier and after a few fights and kills and even a Bond girl, he is brought to a deserted ghost town on the middle of an island where he meets Silva (Javier Bardem). Silva was also a spy back in the day but feels that the trust he put into M was the reason for his downfall. So he is set on getting his revenge and killing her. And Bond can either join him or be against him.
That was a very brief summary I know, but I feel it would take forever to describe all the fights and characters and ending. The movie looked gorgeous minus a few fake looking shots but come on are you really going to put them on top of a speeding train going over a bridge just to make it look 100% real. Nope. And I loved Javier Bardem in this movie. He was unsettling, which I feel is usually the case when he plays a villain, and conniving and always seem to be a step ahead of him. Plus I'm pretty sure he had a crush on Bond which always makes things more interesting. I feel there were throwbacks to earlier Bond movies because names seemed familiar, so I'm sure anyone that is a Bond fan will appreciate that. Also I liked that they decided to simplify things more for the finales. They didn't need this huge set where things are blowing up and buildings are collapsing. It was just a few people barricading themselves in a house.
Rating: ****
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