Spectre

[Captain Duff 79]

Took my lad to see Spectre after school today.

The worst part of the film for me was without doubt the Sam Smith whiny dirge theme tune, possibly the worst since Sheena Easton’s ‘For Your Eyes Only’, but this is thankfully only at the start and does not get repeated (instead there is a welcome return of the John Barry classic Bond theme at various places).

Also, after the hype about the supercar chase (Bond’s Aston ‘DB10’, and the baddies C-X75 Jag) it is pretty tame stuff compared to an average Jason Statham workout and made worse by being at night meaning you don’t even get to admire them too well.

There are nods to previous Bond films throughout, and a great opening sequence. The plot was one of the maddest for some time and barely hung together in a way that made sense even within the normal suspend belief Bond fantasy. And despite the 00 agent programme being shut down and the DB10 being meant for (an unseen) 009, we never see any other MI6 agents in the film leaving you to wonder how the other 00’s felt at being retired and why they weren’t giving 007 a hand to expose the real reasons why.

The length was too long (nearly two and half hours) but didn’t lead me to check my watch. After the wonderful Eva Green’s Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale the main female character here played by Lea Seydoux was fairly uninteresting, and left me wishing he’d instead took along the older widow (Monica Bellucci) he saved early in the film. And talking of age those far too tight suits are not a great look for an older Bond.

So I would say a good film, definitely worth seeing, but for me not the best Bond outing although he does get to drive off at the end in his own favourite and rebuilt DB5.

[remal 85]

it's the first time I heard Sam smith song and though it went well with the movie. Otherwise not a fan of his music.

I went Saturday with my daughter and we both enjoyed the movie. 

As said if your a Bond fan watch it on the big screen. And it's long but if you enjoy bond movies the time flys

 

 

[Omer86 40]

Me and my mates went to see it and we agree with what you say. It was abit odd they said the filmed all night so part of the chase seen yet only 4 seconds made it to the fnal cut. Lots of records broken but makes you think perhaps thats why they did it. I mean supposedly £24 million worth of cars destroyed...Where??

All in all not my favourite Bond movie but not bad for a stand alone action movie.

[Keethos 842]

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Watched this the other week, thought it was alright but somethings did really bug me about the film, like as Captain Duff mentioned, they talk about agent 009 but you don't see or get to know anything about the person, the plot was very very predictable, Christoph Waltz was seriously under utilised, such an amazing actor and he seem to play a rather tame, small villain, I get all the shadow and suspense but it just made his part seem so small but what gets me the most is that James and the bond girl seem to all of a sudden fall madly in love after the terrible start etc, enough for him to, what seems like, leave the service.....also, not enough gadgets!!!