![]() Lucky for him, Sam Mendes is already doing that for him. Meanwhile, a new joint secretary, Max or C as he is known (Andrew Scott), is attempting to unite the world’s intelligence under one surveillance network – and through doing so making the Double-0 program obsolete. The film doesn’t ever attempt to invest the audience in this mission, or in Bond’s motivation for seeking out Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz) – which apparently has something to do with his foster-father and his childhood, again – but it never seems important to the story or to James. Instead at one point, he throws a watch bomb and says: “Time flies!”īond is one a secret mission, assigned to him by M (Judi Dench) via a video message delivered after her death. Gone is all of Bond’s smooth charm and ability to sting his opponent’s with his tongue just as much as with his gun. When you aren’t yawning you’ll be laughing, and not in a good way. And while some of them work well on their own, by the second or third fight scene, you won’t be able to stop yourself from yawning. Instead of a complete story, the film is just a collection of set pieces and scenes loosely stitched together. Bond goes from shootout, to chase, to sex scene, saying and doing the exact same things he has done for the last 23 movies. Spectre tries very hard to be an homage to the vintage James Bond classics, but instead ends up feeling more like a mockery of the series.įor starters the script is outrageously weak and predictable. But Spectre is none of those things, instead it is a film where everyone involved feels like they are just going through the motions. But somehow I got sucked into the hype of Mendes’ vision for an homage to the classic Bond, with that somewhat iconic poster of Craig mimicking Roger Moore, and trailers the emphasized a kind of retro re-visitation of some old villains and themes. And even so, Skyfall wasn’t the best of the new Bond films by any measure – dragging on for much too long. After Skyfall, director Sam Mendes openly stated that he wouldn’t direct another Bond movie. In hindsight my excitement for Spectre seems a bit foolish. “Glass was meant to break, spies were meant to disappear.”
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