SummaryA cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
SummaryA cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
One of the great satisfactions of Spectre is that, in addition to all the stirring action, and all the timely references to a secret organization out to steal everyone’s personal information, we get to believe in Bond as a person.
A Bond movie is all about delivering on expectations: to enjoy it you have to be pleased rather than frustrated by its predictability. In that regard, Spectre, Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as Bond and the second directed by Sam Mendes, can be deemed a solid success: not as darkly stylish as "Skyfall" but not as stupidly grim as "Quantum of Solace" either.
I enjoyed this movie a lot. Indeed this is the best Bond I saw in my marathon with all 007 movies. Visually the pictures are perfect, especially in the first half of the movie. Almost every character here is interesting, especially Q improved a lot since the last movie. Ralph Fiennes as M has more scenes and he is much better than the ice cold and ugly Judi Dench. Christoph Waltz as Blofeld is a perfect cast, I still remember him as Col. Hans Lada in Inglourious Basterds. Daniel Craig is perfect as usual. Only the character Madeleine Swann is annoying in the beginning, but gets better. The story is a good one, I like the political statement here much better than in Skyfall.
The action scenes are perfect, because they are much more realistic than in many other Bond movies. Also the hand fights are great, compare them with the Bond movies from the 60s and 70s...
The biggest surprise is the humour. I never laughed in the all the Bond movies, sometimes the humour was even bad. But here, every joke is on point.
Spectre (2015) is a modern, stylish, entertaining 007 film.
Craig's 3rd best entry. Should be considered as a borderline entry to franchise top 10 list.
Co-starring Christoph Waltz as a new take on the old reliable villain Blofeld, grossed a whopping $879.6M worldwide - the second-biggest take for the franchise.
An unbalanced but never less than entertaining film, enthralling and deflating in roughly equal measure, and studded with moments of true, old-school glory.
Perhaps some of the goofiness was intentional — you can’t always tell from this production’s wavering tone — but Spectre is full of not-good things, and some oppressively bad things that may come to feel like drill bits twirling in your skull.
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“Spectre” is something of a disappointing addition to the 007 cinematic franchise, as the film’s story and presentation are wrought with exceedingly noticeable shortcomings that are hard to remedy. While the overall presentation is far from being an unwatchable collection of nonsensical scenes and overbearing characters, the chemistry between said characters and the narrative depth of its story leave much to be desired; a frustrating sentiment since the spy flick had enough moving components going in its favor to be so much more.Concerning the plot, the film begins where the last film “Skyfall” left off with Bond on the trail of an unknown adversary; an exchange that ends with the MI6 agent causing a great measure of seemingly-avoidable collateral damage. After finding himself at odds with his new boss and placed under house arrest for the careless execution of his unsanctioned mission, Bond is forced to take more covert actions with the begrudging assistance of Q to fulfill the former M’s final request. After several more run-ins with the shadow organization calling themselves “Spectre”, Bond locates former adversary Mr. White to learn as much as he can about the society’s intentions. Meanwhile, MI6 is drawing out its own conflict with an intelligence merger that threatens to shelf its existence for the sake of a state-of-the-art information monitoring initiative: Nine Eyes. Upon being tasked to find White’s daughter (Madeleine Swann) just before White ends his own life, Bond tracks her down with minimal effort and ends up whisking her away from the clutches of harm just as Spectre plays its hand. After some more action and some nonsensically-hastened romance, the two find themselves up against the head of Spectre, Ernst Blofeld, who is more than just a little interested in taking out Bond for a personal (albeit petty) motivation of his own. Following a decent two-part climax that resolves both Bond’s and MI6’s troubles, Bond is restored to his former capacity and drives off into the proverbial sunset with Swann at his side. While the overreaching narrative was better fleshed out than the likes of “Quantum of Solace”, and the villain presented felt more formidable than the previous one seen in “Skyfall”, the underlying issue that prevents “Spectre” from elevating itself above normality is its supreme lack of polish in all aspects. For example, the head goon in Spectre that spends half the movie pursuing Bond is flatter than a board; seemingly only there because most past iterations of Bond also had an antagonist under the primary villain for him to lock horns with. Additionally, the lack of proper set-up sabotages the potency of the threat Bond faces, as both Spectre and Blofeld’s connection to him felt fabricated and rushed to make them relevant for this film. Had the previous three films given Blofeld and his puppeteering subtle buildup, then this likely would not have been a problem.Concerning the characters, Daniel Craig delivers a so-so performance in his fourth go around under the mantle of James Bond. Though he isn’t nearly as despondent as he was in the prior two films, his mannerisms and charisma still felt lacking and a bit stiff. Likewise, Christoph Waltz’s (Blofeld) felt underwhelming in the long run, though a poor motive and backstory didn’t do his acting any favors. Lea Seydoux’s (Madeleine Swann) was reasonably decent for this film’s “Bond girl”, but the rushed plot surrounding her and Bond cut her opportunities to nurture a plausible romance with him short. The MI6 group (Moneypenny, Q, and M) all stayed about the same in performance to their introductions in the last film, though M came off as being overly strict for the sake of plot necessity. Lastly, Dave Bautista’s (Mr. Hinx) was fairly entertaining action-wise as Spectre’s chief muscle, but his aforementioned lack of any character development likened his role to the same level as a disgruntled gorilla in a suit. In terms of action sequences and quality of music, the film doesn’t disappoint, which in turn helps to camouflage some measure of plot shortcomings. If nothing else, they help to make the nearly two and a half hour runtime **** conclusion, “Spectre” is a middling experience that is worthy of a watch from fans or newcomers alike, but not much beyond that. Had several more coats of polish and fine-tuning been applied to the narrative, this penultimate Craig/Bond film could have been a surprisingly entertaining addition to the franchise’s lengthy collection of titles. Unfortunately, what was ultimately presented was a ghost of the movie’s potential: nothing more, nothing less.
Out of 25 Bond movies, I'd place Spectre at 18/25.
I watched it not 4 days ago. I can't remember a thing about it.
The photography was very yellow for some reason.
The story almost started being ok at some point, and then it turned to crap the very instant I thought the movie started showing competence.
I do remember that I thought at some point "somehow it's started being just as silly as Roger Moore era Bond now".
The action took too long and a lot of characterisation wasn't properly done.
Honestly, even after rewatching bits of it, I can't even appreciate, or remember appreciating, anything about Spectre.
The only positive and reason it's so high in my list is that Sam Mendes is a good director, Craig and Seydoux play well, actually every actor does his job well. But it's so uninteresting. No lines, no scenes, no plot points, nothing reall marks. It's competent work spent on a completely forgettable and uninteresting movie.
Spectre has got to be one of most underwritten movies ever, it has great actors in it, but none of them are given anything to do. It's boring, long (2 hrs 27 min.) and has the worst set of villains in bond history. People really outta stop defending this movie.