Skyfall Trailer Review - Bond Goes Batman To Stay Relevant

Today we got to see the fruits of its rejoiceful, rather tipsy, labour, and it is quite impressive indeed. I personally was never a big fan of Bond until the 2006 reboot "Casino Royale" which taught me Bond could be cool, energetic and not have the capabilities of being a cringe worthy middle aged man sat at a bar sneering menacingly at attractive females... Then "Quantum of Solace" happened and told me off for thinking in a positive way. However I have since held closeted positive hopes about this incarnation of the character and the gun toting, British accent heavy action sequences he always provides, James Bond is no longer a camp, cheesy British Institution; it's an action film of real credibility and they show it off expertly in this first teaser trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mTIE4D9JM&feature=player_embedded The tones are dark, there are many dramatic shots of people stood on top of things looking outwards and many fade to black - cut to action shots that form the proverbial bullet of this trailer. It's all very Nolan-esque, it's all very effective. It's not upsetting that everything seems to be compared to Nolan these days, it's upsetting that everything tries to be it. Especially films like James Bond, which is now on its 23rd outing, it should have its own identity now even after the reboot of a few years back but it still now resorts to the seeming type of saying only a few key words, mingling them with some people staring dramatically off into the distance and sporadic shots of unintelligible action. Despite this, the trailer does succeed in elevating certain levels of intrigue, the shadowy figure at the end is clearly Javier Bardem but as to what his purpose, character, goal is remains a mystery. Ralph Fiennes makes a blink and you'll miss it entry as long as the repetition of the word Skyfall clearly meaning something of grave importance to Bond, who then walks out of the not-at-all like "The Dark Knight" interrogation room to go achieve things...Killing people, most likely. Despite the repeat of the word Skyfall and the intermitten cuts of action there is little else to hold on to in this trailer, it's very easy to make an action trailer that looks good and inviting to see things blow up, but difficult to make one worth seeing for other reasons. Naomie Harris makes a brief appearance as the worlds most handsy personal shaver whilst the lack of visable villain detracts from the level of threat. All in all, it's a functional trailer but one that fails to really encapsulate the imagination and slap its own identity on it as well as other big action films this year have, if James Bond wants to stay current in a world of Superheroes, Aliens and Miley Cyrus it might need to stop trying to be a representation of what is current, and be itself.