I have finally seen Skyfall...

After much fanfare and all my friends telling me how utterly brilliant the film is, me and my Dad went and saw the 23rd Bond.

The film is fantastic, it really is one of the best Bond films of all time. It does have its pitfalls, but Director Sam Mendes has taken Bond into the realms of darker' comic book films that have littered the cinema of late. The films main man Daniel Craig has to take the credit. For a man who no one really wanted as Bond he has turned into the finest Bond there has ever been. Especially in this film he is a tour de force. Supported by a brilliant cast Craig has perfected the role. Judi Dench plays the brutally matriarchal role of M excellently and has evolved with the darker side of the films. Javier Bardem is camp and sinister as the villain, however, his death is something of an anticlimax.

The opening scene is the films least pleasing part, especially the bike race, which at times is quite obviously and badly CGI-ed, however, that is the one blotch on an otherwise brilliant action film. The film doesn't need any great unravelling the plot has already been set up perfectly from Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace - this is the third act in Craig's first 'Bond Trilogy' - come the end of the film there is a sense that the films are about to kick forward into a new realm.

Not to destroy the plot for those who haven't seen it - the films finest moment comes as Dench is facing an inquest of sorts and the tension is racked up. Dench quoting Tennyson, as the scene filters between its three main characters is brilliantly done and hints back to Mendes' work in American Beauty. 

Skyfall is not only a terrific Bond film, but a great bit of cinema. For me personally, it doesn't hit the heights of Casino Royale. But Craig has proved once again he is, probably, the greatest Bond…so far.