SKYFALL

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SKYFALL Movie

2012

(7,8 out of 10)
Azione (Avventura|Crimine|Thriller)
2 h 23 min - 143 min
Directed by Sam Mendes

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	Daniel Craig
	Judi Dench
	Javier Bardem
	Ralph Fiennes

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	 In missione a Istanbul per conto della Regina, della Patria e di M, James Bond deve recuperare un file prezioso che contiene i nomi degli agenti infiltrati del MI6. Finito nelle mani di un killer professionista, Bond lo insegue cadendo sotto i colpi del fuoco amico. Precipitato e disperso dentro una cascata, Bond viene dichiarato morto e compianto in un formale necrologio. A redigerlo è M, che lo ha sacrificato senza riuscire a recuperare il maltolto. Pubblicate su internet le identità degli agenti operativi, M è chiamata a rispondere della questione e della sua gestione davanti al governo britannico che vorrebbe le sue dimissioni. Bond, intanto, sopravvissuto alla "˜caduta' e alla inoperosità, è richiamato a Londra e al dovere da un attentato gravissimo alla sede del MI6. L'obiettivo è M, il criminale è Silva, un ex agente "˜venduto' e torturato che ha coltivato la vendetta e adesso chiede il conto al suo ex direttore. Figli putativi della stessa M(adre), Bond e Silva si confronteranno a colpi di pistola, fino a esplodere o a implodere il loro passato. Dopo essere caduto dal cielo e dopo essersi rialzato dal fondo, James Bond si accomoda davanti a un quadro di William Turner, esposto con orgoglio alla National Gallery, perché quel dipinto rappresenta "La Valorosa Témériere" rimorchiata lungo il Tamigi e destinata alla demolizione. Una combattente temeraria che ha vinto la tracotanza di Napoleone e adesso scivola adagio verso il tramonto. Il suo e quello dell'epoca che l'ha vista eroica. Nella fruizione museale di Bond c'è l'essenza, il senso e il valore di Skyfall, ventitreesimo film della serie diretto da Sam Mendes, che riazzera il personaggio fino a "˜ucciderlo', rifondando l'archetipo e avviandone biografia e serialità autoriali. Se con Martin Campbell Bond ricominciava dal doppio zero, con Mendes riparte da zero e da una mestizia, una sensazione densa di pena, affetto e responsabilità, derivata dalla vulnerabilità di M, "˜madre' ideale e onnipotente minacciata da un figliolo tutt'altro che prodigo. Il cattivo di Javier Bardem, doppio oscuro di Bond e nemesi filiale di M, è l'ennesimo megalomane della saga che pratica il delirio gettando l'ordine tranquillo del mondo nell'angoscia. Nella testa e dietro lo sguardo di Mendes, quel mondo e quell'angoscia si fanno assolutamente personali, convertendo il conflitto internazionale in un dramma "˜familiare'. Il corpo materno di M, fonte aspra di insegnamenti e conflitti per Bond, viene sconvolto da una minaccia abnorme e traumatica che occupa abusivamente la scena di un legame storico, professionale, emotivo, affettivo. La vita di M è letteralmente nelle mani dell'agente di Fleming, la cui incolumità pone a Bond il problema delle sue radici, della sua provenienza e dell'impossibilità che possano costituire un terreno solido, sicuro e al riparo dall'imprevedibilità della vita. È a questo punto che il regista inglese introduce un discorso sulla tradizione, sugli echi, sul "˜marchio', che mentre celebra i cinquant'anni di vita cinematografica di Bond produce una separazione irreversibile col passato, mai riducibile per Mendes a meri citazionismo e collezionismo. Per questa ragione l'Aston Martin DB5 argentata e armata di Sean Connery, infila di nuovo la strada e l'avventura, trattenendo romanticamente l'aura dei Bond che furono, simbolizzando una discendenza con l'agente di Daniel Craig, dando corpo (e motore) a una memoria collettiva. Antropomorfizzata, l'Aston Martin partecipa al destino di Bond e di M contro un villain ossigenato e incapace di guarire. Si chiudono invece le cicatrici di Bond, che lascia andare e si libera perché altrimenti sarebbe impossibile continuare. Quietati lutti, ombre e fantasmi, James Bond emerge dalla staticità iconica e dall'immodificabilità del passato, smantellando le spoglie epiche dell'oggetto perduto e reintegrando, rinnovati, Q e Miss Moneypenny. Al Silva superbamente eccentrico e decentrato di Bardem, agente di un mondo che non c'è più e da cui dipende patologicamente, non resta che la nevrosi e l'irriconoscenza del debito simbolico con M, vecchia e valorosa ammiraglia destinata alla "˜rimozione'. La trasmissione, nel Bond di Mendes, si realizza sullo scarto, sul resto di corpo, di carne, sull'oggetto museale (quadro o automobile). Perché in quel residuo c'è ancora tantissima vita da accogliere e perseverare dentro un'altra segretissima missione. Dentro al corpo, ieri pesante, oggi bolla di leggerezza, di Daniel Craig.

<br>Character error<br>_________<br>The dress worn by Bérénice Marlohe is described (and referred to by Bond) as backless. There is clearly sheer fabric encrusted with crystals - hardly backless.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Continuity<br>_________<br>At the 'Skyfall' family home, M is given a scarf by Kincade to keep warm, later (while outside crossing the moor) she doesn't have it, but later on when they are in the chapel, she is wearing it again.<br><br>--------<br>After Bond 'kidnaps' M and they switch vehicles to the DB5, M is not wearing a coat. When they arrive in Scotland she has a coat on.<br><br>--------<br>When Bond is about to fight Patrice in Shanghai, the hammer of his gun changes its position (cocked and un-cocked) multiple times.<br><br>--------<br>Before Bond fights Patrice in Shanghai, he is not wearing his gloves (as he is holding his pistol). However at the end of the fight when Bond is holding Patrice out of the window, his gloves are back on.<br><br>--------<br>In the Shanghai Tower scene, the terrorist/sniper is seen operating a manual, bolt action rifle. Right after during the fight with James Bond, the gun is shot several times just as if it was a semi-automatic weapon.<br><br>--------<br>When M is first debriefed by Gareth Mallory, she enters carrying a handbag, which she places on the floor beside her. The meeting ends abruptly and she leaves, but is not carrying a handbag, nor is there one left on the floor.<br><br>--------<br>When Bond and Sévérine are walking in the island, her shoes change color between shots.<br><br>--------<br>In the end when Bond and Eve stand on the roof Big Ben's clock shows a few minutes to six and Eve says: "Her will was read today", so it's presumably afternoon. But when they go inside Tanner greets Bond by saying: "Good morning".<br><br>--------<br>During the motorcycle chase scene, both Bond and Patrice are seen wearing sneakers - with a clearly visible white rubber band around the soles (to add more grip to their foot-pegs) and NOT dress shoes, like they were using before. This then alternates between the two kinds of footwear during the chase.<br><br>--------<br>Before Patrice enters the elevator in Shanghai, the button for his floor is already lit. After he motions to press the floor button, it is no longer lit. Later, as the elevator is moving up, the button is lit again.<br><br>--------<br>In the last act of the movie: the first wave of attackers come in during daytime, the helicopter arrives at night time and it seems that by the time they reach the Church, sunlight is shining in at daytime again.<br><br>--------<br>When Bond is in M's flat, he puts down a bottle of Macallan whisky. When he is seen again, the bottle has been turned round, displaying the front label. In the next shot, the bottle is back to as it was.<br><br>--------<br>When Silva challenges Bond on Silva's island to shoot a glass off of Sévérine's head, one of Silva's henchmen points a gun to Bond's head. As camera angles changes, the position of the gun moves from shot to shot from being directly pressed against Bond's left temple, to a few inches away, to pointing more towards his cheek.<br><br>--------<br>During the roof top motorbike chase scene, Bond doesn't start with sunglasses on, then has them half way through the chase, then he doesn't have them again at the end.<br><br>--------<br>At the Bar bond orders a Vodka martini, "shaken, not stirred". The bar maid pours it into a frozen martini glass to the top. When Bond picks it up and takes his first sip, the glass is thawed out and half empty.<br><br>--------<br>During the opening chase, Patrice's bullet clearly hits Bond on the right shoulder, but when he digs the bullet out, he cuts into his left shoulder. He can also be seen grasping his right shoulder, (after his practice shoot) but Patrice's bullet hole is seen earlier on his left shoulder when he is at his sea-shore bungalow.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Crew or equipment visible<br>_________<br>During one of the beginning scenes, after Bond crashes his bike into a bridge wall and lands on top of a moving train, he almost slips off, but we see in a scene of the train moving away from the bridge that there is a platform which was supporting him as he was climbing back up onto the roof.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Errors in geography<br>_________<br>The suggestion is that the building the Ministerial Hearing is being held in is in Westminster, in one of the Ministerial buildings off of Whitehall, however the building 'Silva' enters seems to be Trinity House on Trinity Square, close to Tower Hill and the Tower of London, several miles away, with Bond and others exiting the building after the shootout onto Seething Lane Garden.<br><br>--------<br>The opening chase scene is shot at two different provinces of Turkey, namely Adana and Istanbul, approximately 950 km apart. It is not possible to see yellow cabs with license plate numbers starting with '01' (signifying 'Adana') near the Grand Bazaar (in Istanbul).<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Factual errors<br>_________<br>In the intro scene when James Bond's train car is uncoupled, the car's brake pipe is disconnected as well. Train brakes work on positive pressure, so if the brake pipe were disconnected, the uncoupled cars (but not the entire train) would immediately stop within a short distance. In the movie, the uncoupled cars continue closely following the train as if nothing had happened.<br><br>--------<br>The shrapnel taken from Bond's shoulder are 'depleted uranium' yet these rounds do not go through the mild steel cab of the digger nor do they go through the glass.<br><br>--------<br>Silva says that after he bit the capsule with hydrogen cyanide it "burnt his insides" but he "didn't die" because "life clang to him", and then shows the "effects of hydrogen cyanide". All of those statements are goofs. It's impossible for life to cling to anyone who ingests this chemical and he or she invariably dies within 1 to 10 minutes. The chemical doesn't "burn the insides"; it causes oxygen deprivation and death. It was used in Nazi Germany under the infamous name Zyklon B to kill people in extermination camps. It also doesn't cause any of the deformities shown by Silva.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Incorrectly regarded as goofs<br>_________<br>After the terrorist attack on MI6, TV reporter explains that 6 people died and others were injured in the hospital. In the next scene, when M stands next to the coffins, we can count 8 coffins that were the victims of the attack. However, the additional coffins could be explained that two of the injured had subsequently died of their injuries.<br><br>--------<br>After Bond and M arrive at Skyfall they review the available weapons with Kincade. Kincade hands Bond what looks like a double barrel shotgun and says that is was his father's hunting rifle. This is an "express rifle", a double barreled large caliber rifle designed for dangerous game at close range, and easily mistaken for a shotgun.<br><br>--------<br>Bond's father's gun is manufactured by Anderson Wheeler, so it might seem unlikely that Andrew Bond, a representative of the arms manufacturer Vickers, would have habitually used a competitor's product. But given the fact that Vickers only built military weapons and never produced sporting arms, it is perfectly normal that he would have chosen a double rifle from one of the big sporting guns firms in Mayfair.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Plot holes<br>_________<br>Bond's father's gun is manufactured by Anderson Wheeler, yet it is unlikely that Andrew Bond, a representative of the arms manufacturer Vickers, would have habitually used a competitor's product.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Revealing mistakes<br>_________<br>During the motorcycle chase, shots from behind show the riders are wearing padding underneath their clothing, particularly obvious for James Bond.<br><br>--------<br>When the tube train falls through the hole into the area below, all its lights are still working. Once each carriage leaves the rails, which carry the electric current, these would all have gone out and the train would have been in darkness.<br><br>--------<br>Throughout the movie, the "siren" sounds used for the emergency vehicles use American Style tones.<br><br>--------<br>The train carrying a Caterpillar excavator and several VW Beetles parked sideways on to the direction of travel would not have been able to fit within the narrow and low rail tunnels which complete the opening sequence.<br><br>--------<br>When the train crashes through the roof of the cellar it plows through columns that support the roof but no windows crack and the paint is hardly scratched.<br><br>--------<br>When James Bond chases Silva on the London Underground train, all the signage and stations suggests it's a District Line train; however the shape of the train is not that of a District Line train but that of a subterranean London Underground Train i.e. Central Line, Bakerloo etc.<br><br>--------<br><br><br><br>Spoilers<br>_________<br><br><br>The goof below may give away important plot points.<br><br><br><br><br><br>Continuity<br>When Bond realizes Silva's cage must have opened, he leaves the room running, without his communication device. When he reaches the prison cell, he is clearly talking into a microphone and his earphone is also visible.<br><br>--------<br><br><br><br><br>