Skyfall: Boredom Overkill

In my long years as a book reviewer for the Detroit Free Press, the Washington Post and other newspapers and magazines, every now and then I felt I'd slipped into an alternate universe. The whole world seemed to praise a new novel in terms so rapturous you'd think nobody had ever accomplished anything worth praising in fiction until then. I'd read the book and go, "Huh?"



That's how I feel about Skyfall. Its almost unanimous raves had me set for a movie experience of a lifetime, or at least the...