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It was a fight that left me breathless and you're right it was the first time we've seen Bond for all his endeavours, helpless in a fight.
Best scene in the film. I couldn't stop talking about it to my poor wife when we left the cinema! But it was the Bond fight I'd been waiting years for!
I promise to be more careful with that term in the future but I think here it applies even if the movie is barely a year old.
Personally there are more sequences that I would have to put into a Top 20 of best action scenes ever.
-The whole PTS really.
-The plane/car chase.
Big call. Rick Sylvester launching himself from Asgard - iconic. Shirley Eaton covered in gold paint - iconic.
It's riffing on a scene that encompassed more than just thrills, it redefined action editing.
As for the plane/car chase being in the top 20 action scenes ever. It doesn't even make the Bond top 20.
I was expecting a lot more from it for sure and I question Bond's judgement during that sequence too. Plus the score was so, so bland during that chase.
Check out this version. :)
The plane chase only scrapes 3rd best action sequence in SP FFS.
Why is a tank chase more exciting than a plane/ice/car chase? Or why is a car chase with a 2CV more exciting than the Rome car chase?
I know the answer. Every bit of action has been done before. And although we long for some quality of past action glory in Bond films, we cannot seem to be happy by it anymore if the action sequences echoes that Remy Julienne esque fun.
Yes, one can expect a lot. But sometimes.....
That's before mentioning the recycled score that wasn't good the first time around
The Aston chase as recently as 2008 got it mostly right
But even I cannot really get behind the plane chase. As @IncompetentHenchman states, I really do wonder what Bond is thinking throughout. He's flying the plane into a tight spot where he should know he's going to get his wings clipped in that heavy collection of trees, not to mention that one screw up on his part could kill Madeleine who is vulnerable in one of the cars. The whole scene feels reckless, which doesn't fit who Bond is at this point in his arc.
I know that Dan's injury made it so that the action had to be changed here and there, and that may have forced the team to rely much more heavily on vehicular action in SP, but it's so dull to me at times. I like to see Bond chasing, or fighting or shooting, something that involves him in kinetic movement. SP is so full of vehicular action that Bond almost feels removed from it all, if that makes sense. Whether he's chasing someone in a car, being chased, flying a plane and chasing someone, or shooting at Blofeld in a helicopter from a boat, it just gets to be too much, I think. I wanted and expect more sequences like the Hinx fight, a brutal and mesmerizing scene of the ilk that have been a Craig Bond staple and made them iconic. It's why we still remember the Obanno fight or Slate fight; they're visceral and stick with you. SP could have used some more of that, for sure.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you....
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Carter resigns as 009 and teams up with Blofeld to get revenge on Bond for leaving him for dead in Madagascar. He got bit by the snake but survived with a similar scar to Blofeld's and not the two are gearing to screw up Bond's life.
One scene will involve Carter trying to torture Bond by cutting his ears off.
"Don't touch your ear, right Bond?! Oh, you can't now, can you?"
But there's some gusto to the tank chase. It's faintly ridiculous at points, but it has an energy to it and like all good sequences it has peaks and troughs and, more importantly, it escalates.
In the case of the plane sequence it's all a bit beige. It's nothing to do with everything having been done before, the sequence just lacks some basic invention. The action is too signposted and the coverage and editing is a bit pedestrian.
In the cold light of day it's just very lacklustre.
A big, ballsy score like that would have improved it immensely. Even just the usage of the "Underwater Mayhem" version of the 007 theme lifted it (even if it wasn't a perfect fit) just like it did during the slowly paced underwater sequences in Thunderball.
The inquiry scene is tense and features a killer Bond moment (one of Craig's best): namely the wink at Mallory followed by shooting the extinguisher and confidently walking out into the open like a total badass firing his Walther with one hand. Silva's disgust at not being able to get a 2nd shot at M is also an immense moment, as is Mallory's bravery in saving M (unlike Tanner). Even useless Naomi (Eve) steps up and does her bit when Bond kicks the gun her way. M's fated expression when she sees Silva is also brilliant. All in all it's full of great teamwork and smart thinking. The fact that the shootout interrupted M's increasingly boring and pretentious monologue is an added bonus.
Because they knew how bad I wanted to see a Craig skiing sequence.
That was apparently the plan, but Dan didn't want to do it and/or the knee injury complicated the possibility of the idea.