It's not for everyone

Rating: 3/10 (22 December 2019)

I have been and always will be a bond fan. I was so looking forward to this film as the follow up to the excellent reboot of the franchise with Casino Royale.
The opening car chase was really good as were the scenes with Bond and Mitchell fighting, although the use of CGI here is a bit ham fisted to say the least and you can still clearly spot Bonds stuntman with his highly distinguishable ginger hair.
The fight scene in the hotel with Slate, the boat sequence with Camille and Bond are quite good as are the excellent scenes at the theatre where Tosca is playing.
However, after about 40 minutes into the film, it loses the plot. Well, to be exact, there is no plot to follow and hold the film together. As a result the film flounders.
It is almost as if filming stopped for the summer and when it resumed the director had changed. The lead baddie is weak and has no real menace, his henchmen are non entities.
The musical score was good throughout.
The aeroplane scene is spoilt with poor CGI and the ending at the desert hotel is somewhat disappointing in alignment with most of this film.
It is a real shame that the second half of this film was so poor and uneventful. With some more expansion of the plot and characters it could have been really good.
As Mr White said "It's not for everyone"