Skyfall contains examples of the following tropes:
It was Albert Finney's final film before his death in 2019.įollowed by Spectre, a sequel that picks up where this film left off. But when a terrorist attack targets MI6's headquarters, Bond returns to track down the man responsible: Raoul Silva ( Javier Bardem), a dangerous cyberterrorist with a personal grudge against M. With a top agent presumed dead and the information he sought to save sitting in the wrong hands, MI6 section chief M ( Judi Dench) comes under government review for her handling of the situation. Adele performed the Title Theme Tune.Īfter an operation in Istanbul to recover an encrypted hard drive containing the identities of every active undercover NATO agent ends in disaster, Bond goes missing. After a four-year gap following the financial problems of distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the Sam Mendes-directed film saw release in fall 2012.
Skyfall, the twenty-third film in the Eon Productions James Bond franchise, also marks the 50th anniversary of the film series, and is the third film in the series to star Daniel Craig. The one where James Bond jokes that he swings both ways.
