Originally Posted By: Tempest
I liked Skyfall except for the end. It just didn't make any sense the things they did. And the flashlight? Really?
Not to give anything away, but I'm not sure what you mean by "flashlight". Bond fires off a flare at a critical moment, that was my take on it.
To me, the last act is crucial -- not only is it different from anything we've ever had in a Bond film (I think; I've watched almost none of the Pierce Brosnan movies), but it gives us a character arc, a growth of personality, for our Mr. Bond. He's not perfect, like Fleming's original character, who got banged up and had to go to hospital at the end of a lot of the novels; and here he has personal connections to the people around him, Judi Dench's M in particular.