The last time Bond fans heard the evil organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Spectre combines the storylines and villains from the 1960s and 1970s. He does whatever he wants and defies the urge to listen to his boss or his helpful colleagues. He evades his superiors while he chases the villain and romances the daughter of his former adversary Mr. Bond is a rogue agent (isn’t he always) who gets his double O status suspended after he’s criticized for blowing up the building in Mexico City. It uses every plot device that made the franchise famous, but it dresses up the stereotypes with only the kind of flash that a $250 million film allows. Spectre is a great Bond film, but it cannot be called original. He’s so likable that you almost forget he murders dangerous people for the Queen. However, he plays Bond with more humanity than Connery, Bronson, Dalton or Moore. Although Ian Fleming’s novels and previous Bond films never hid 007’s talent for killing and causing mayhem, Spectre highlights Bond as being an assassin, and the word keeps popping up throughout the film.Īssassins are usually associated with the evil side, but Bond is not ashamed of being a hired government killer who defends the crown and saves the world at the same time. Craig is always confident and believable whether he’s examining classified images on a rugged tablet, saving his love interest from psychopaths, or resisting painful torture from his nemesis. In Spectre, Daniel Craig is a killing machine his death count lingers near the Rambo total, but he does it with more style than less talented actors. The helicopter stunt is on a higher level of complexity than previous Bond movies, and it’s more exciting than any scene from the Mission Impossible franchise. Bond tackles him when he tries to escape in a helicopter, and the two wrestle and fight while the helicopter spirals towards the jubilant crowd below. After Bond’s bullet hits the terrorists’ explosives, the building collapses, but the villain gets away. Bond pursues a terrorist, Marco Sciarra, through the crowded streets and eventually follows him to a downtown building. The film opens in Mexico City during the Day of the Dead celebration.
Spectre’s stunts are some of the most impressive of the series, and Daniel Craig (Bond) rarely seems able to take a breath after he’s thrown around by Dave Bautista or attacked by twenty black-suited men with submachine guns. Unlike Skyfall, it does not slow down for sadness or melodrama, but it pauses for a second then surges forward with high-energy action scenes.
Spectre is a modern take on James Bond’s famous clichés and plot conventions. While the script admittedly doesn't allow him to eat the screen to the same level as Tarantino's flick, his performance almost singlehandedly lifts the film's fortunes.The follow-up to Skyfall, regarded as one of the finest Bond films ever made, is a much different film than its predecessor. Plucked out of obscurity with a sublime performance in Inglourious Basterds, Christoph Waltz has proved himself to be one of the best character actors working today. Much like the ret-conned revival of Khan in Star Trek: Into Darkness, Spectre's villain is its worst kept secret, but ultimately has very little impact on the story other than to tie it in with the wider legacy. Ralph Fiennes returns again as MI6 head M, but his frequent use of the trademark Voldemort scowl was just a little too much for me to take entirely seriously. because heaven forbids the film would be accused of sexism). Lea Seydoux is easy on the eye, but serves as a relatively unmemorable Bond girl, cut from the same cloth as most female sidekick roles these days ('strong, independent woman', etc. The fifth time around, Daniel Craig shows no evidence of growing stale, imbuing the role with ample energy, albeit without the same twinkle in the eye we saw in Casino Royale.
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