Skyfall Review - Expected Endings from a Perfect Man

Imagine a character running toward a moving subway car - leaping - and catching the end of the train uninjured.

This is one of many instances in which James Bond does the impossible.

This is one of many instances in which Skyfall meets expectations and causes boredom for me the viewer.

Side note: This bond felt a lot like the Nolan/Goyer Batman movies.  Though in Bond there lacks an internal conflict.

It seems to head toward the idea of Bond handing in his badge and retiring, people losing faith in Mi6, etc.

Bond is getting old like M, but the writers don't tap into that during the obstacles.  Why not have Bond leap toward the Subway car and miss?  It would be unexpected and create more interest.  

That said the Topic of the movie is Age.  A new age of criminals has arrived and the old way of doing things with the old agents and old fancy toys may not work anymore...so do we get rid of them?

In the end they use Radios, Knives, Classic Cars, Scotland, Dynamite....old toys and classic locations but the writers don't deal with the internal conflicts, obstacles that arise with Age using these toys.

So what are the stances in terms of Age.  Take the scene in which M is being grilled by the government officials.  What do the government officials want?  They don't want to replace M and her crew.  M and her crew have the latest tech...so they can't argue that M needs to update or get out.  There's no real issues being debated.

Why not have Bond argue with Q that all "HE wants is a radio and a Gun."  And have Q say "NO you need to use this high tech stuff."  And have Bond SHOW that the old toys work just fine.

Instead of teaching an Old dog new tricks.  It could have been Teach a Young dog old tricks.

Eve could have been the young agent who learns from Bond how to win with old tricks.

Or if they wanted to teach bond new tricks, bond could have been more reticent about using the high tech toys only to use it in the end to win.

he could have tried the radio, the knife, the classic car and seen it fail and seen someone close to him die because of it or a bus of kids killed,  something bad as a result of his trying to stay the same....

The story lacks a real showing of Old vs. New.  Sides are not clearly drawn and as a result the lack of internal conflict makes the story muddy and boring.

It was "Show an old dog old tricks"  i.e. nothing unexpected.  Nothing being argued.