Everyone's favourite serial rapist and alcoholic is back, and this time it is his destiny
After the enjoyable Spkyfall, although it's ridiculous Home Alone style ending, and all the hype surrounding Bond's new adventure I was eagerly waiting what lay ahead. Gratuitous product placement, over the top villains and henchmen and frikkin sharks with frikkin laser beams.
The opening scene in Mexico is awesome, straight to the point and with an aerial stunt show that was truly breathtaking....then it all just kind of stopped, slowed right down and then that was it for another 2 hours, just nothing.
The Daniel Craig Bond series has all been leading to this, everything that has happened has been orchestrated by one person. All the villains he has encountered have all been pawns in Blofeld Oberhauser's main plan of revenge. I'm sorry, but what happened to the classic style of Bond going doing a mission with an over the top bad guy and his ridiculous henchmen, elaborate ways of torture and non-connective story lines? Why does it all have to be destiny and foreshadowing? Bond is about a mission to stop world domination from a maniacal badguy that has plans to destroy the world's gold or cornering the market of microchips, with henchmen that are ridiculous yet brilliant, a man with a razor sharp hat, razor teeth, or so little they can hide in boxes.
Dave Bautista henchman enters the room as a formidable force and is quickly subject to a slow/fast car chase scene through the streets of Rome, he then keeps turning up time after time at Bond's heels and offers serious threat. He is underutilised throughout the film, he could have been this series' answer to Odd Job or Jaws.
I was sat in a full audience at Cineworld Leigh and next to me was a pure Bond fan, he whooped at the references to bonds of old and hollered at new gadgets added to the arsenal but when the big reveal happened, the one that no one expected, his gasp of shock and awe could have been heard in cinema's across the land. I felt like turning to him at this point and saying, "You are obviously a Bond fan, was this "reveal" not evident to you from the very beginning, even from the trailer you obviously watched to get you here!?", it is the worst shock reveal since Khan. I laughed at the ridiculousness of it all, I'm sorry, I am a mediocre fan, I have enjoyed Bond through the ages, but I saw that coming months and months ago so it was hardly a shock!
Spectre seems to have all the fanboys and license to kill bias on it's side and I feel that I will be in the minority for not liking this film, but I am happy to stay in this minority. There are far more enjoyable films out there with similar styles that just do it better.
Let me just put this out there, after an opening aerial spectacular our loveable hero must go rogue to stop a rouge nation of criminals from causing destruction around the planet. He must team up with his computer geek and technical wizard colleague and a mysterious women with hidden agenda. All sound a little familiar? The only difference is, this one was a fun and enjoyable romp, whereas Spectre was just a little dull.
It is always a boost of ego when someone else notices a similar trend and reports on it.
I watch a few movie reviewers on youtube and Schmoes Know said pretty much what I said in this review..even including the Mission Impossible connections
Everyone's favourite serial rapist and alcoholic is back, and this time it is his destiny
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