This Bond quote introduces one of Skyfall‘s most improbable narrative turns: Bond and M retreating to his childhood home in an Aston Martin DB5.  For me, this is the point where the movie begins to unravel.  However nostalgic or thematically symbolic the choice may be, the plot logic simply does not hold.  After a large scale terror attack on MI6, it strains credibility that the safest course of action would be to isolate two high value targets in a remote, unsecured location rather than place them under heavy protection among others and on full lockdown.

Silva’s threat, built largely on abstract hacking prowess, also feels oddly toothless.  The movie asks the audience to accept that a hyper sophisticated digital antagonist can be neutralized through a retreat into rural England and a series of improvised defenses.  Q’s role suffers as well, particularly the “breadcrumbs” gambit, which comes across as more contrived than clever and weakens his function as a credible asset to Bond.