Skyfall Skyfall Skyfall is a 2012 British spy film, the twenty-third in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions. The film is the third to star Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond and features Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the villain. It was directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan, and features the theme song "Skyfall", written and performed by Adele. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Columbia Pictures. The story centres on Bond investigating an attack on MI6; the attack is part of a plot by former agent
Skyfall that it was a film that had "some weight and complexity to it". "Variety" Peter DeBruge suggested that the film's greatest strength lay in its willingness to put as much focus on characterisation as it did action set-pieces, allowing the two to co-exist rather than compete for the audience's attention, while Manohla Dargis, reviewing for "The New York Times", considered "Skyfall" to be "a superior follow-up to "Casino Royale"" which is "opulent rather than outlandish and insistently, progressively low-key". Kim Newman, reviewing the film for "Empire", concluded, ""Skyfall" is pretty much all you could want from a 21st Century Bond: