James Bond resurrects in the new Skyfall trailer: OMG, amazing?!!?

Whenever I’ve written about Skyfall and Daniel Craig as the post-9/11 James Bond, most of you react with a collective “meh.” WHY? Skyfall looks like an even better Bond film than Casino Royale – and I LOVED Casino Royale. Quantum of Solace was a POS, of course, so let’s just pretend that movie didn’t even happen. But this one… good God, it looks good. The story seems very heavy on M – played brilliantly by Judi Dench. Ralph Fiennes is on as some kind of MI6 higher-up, I think. Naomie Harris is either Money Penny or another MI6 agent. And Javier Bardem is at his creepy best as the villain. A BLONDE villain. And the part that made me “SQUEEEEE!!!” is the introduction (finally!) of “Q”. Played by one of my favorites of the young British actors, Ben Whishaw. What pitch-perfect casting, honestly.

Daniel Craig’s Bond has an unexpected character strength, one which we saw in Casino Royale: this Bond isn’t always on top. He’s better when he’s lost a few rounds. He’s good as getting his ass kicked. Daniel’s Bond isn’t all suave moves and cocktails. He’s a sh-tkicker. He’s MI6 by way of a hard-knock life. And this looks to be Daniel’s best outing ever. And how much do you love Ben Whishaw? Is it just me? Because I adore that boy.

SPOILER ALERT– I’ve heard some mutterings here and there that this will be the final outing for Judi Dench as M. Something about how she doesn’t want to do it anymore, and the producers deciding to kill her off. After seeing this trailer… I think that’s happening. I think this will be Judi’s last one.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

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