Language - English
Director - Sam Mendes
Run Time - 2 hours, 28 minutes
Genre - Action/Thriller
Starring - Daniel Craig, Christopher Waltz and Ralph Fiennes.
The last BOND movie of the Daniel Craig era, Spectre starts off wonderfully. We have an exhilarating scene in Mexico amidst the 'Day of the Dead' festivities, but sadly, the movie just goes downhill from there and is not able to maintain the tempo.
For a James Bond movie, the 'action' content was quite sparse, and even when there was, it was meek and uninteresting. The movie made no sense in some areas as well and there were multiple plot holes in the movie. Simply put, the movie does not succeed in keeping the audience captivated. Although it does succeed in confusing them at times. Sam Mendes, disappoints after the much loved Skyfall.
Mendes fails to gain from casting Christopher Waltz as the villain, as the movie barely featured him. Even Dave Bautista of the Guardians of Galaxy fame (Drax) and Andrew Scott of Sherlock fame (Moriarty) were both barely given any screen time and thus wasted.
The movie picks up from the scars of Skyfall, with Bond chasing a target given to him by M posthumously, but failure to work within the system leads to his official leave from MI6. Bond uncovers an undercover criminal organization that has long been pulling the strings behind criminal activities in the world - Spectre, but his infiltration is soon discovered. These chain of events kick off the movie with Bond trying to figure out more behind Spectre and Franz Obenhauser (leader of Spectre) attempting to kill Bond.
The trailer promised us so much, It promised us of a great possible battle ensuing between Bond and the criminal organization 'Spectre'; something on the terms of Mission Impossible 5, but it became more of a one on one between Bond and Obenhauser (Waltz). Sam Mendes tried to win the war by linking all Craig-era movies but lost the battle at hand by failing to have a substantial plot for this movie.
The movie also falls short of the usual Bond gadgets and gizmos, that are usually the forte of a spy.
Thus. ends Daniel Craigs Bond reign, though, he does not go out with a bang. More like a fizzle.
Hardcore Bond fans will watch, but I'd recommend avoiding.
My Rating - 6.4/10
