Bloodless copy of a copy of a copy

Rating: 3/10 (21 January 2016)

James Bond fans or people who adore the nostalgic notion of a secret agent acting as a good guy (GHCQ, CIA, ...?) will be surely be pleased by this 100% proved bond formula movie.
I for myself wonder, how anyone can still watch this franchise - the "story" of Spectre seems to haven been "written" by a James Bond movie script generator.
Establish the beginning with ruthless, disobedient behaviour of our superhero, give him some toys, a Swiss watch and an Aston Martin; yes, you get a car chase scene, helicopter and plane action, beautiful vistas, good and bad girls instantly falling in love with him, stupid villains that talk too much - and all of the suspension-of-disbelief-crap on top (travelling from London to Rome with his Aston Martin while in a hurry - seriously? Shooting a helicopter down with a 9mm-something at a 500 meters distance... well! Besides, having smokings ready in every life situation seems to be Bond's prime directive - even when he's "working" in the desert, and even we never see him with some luggage).
Bond is not even someone we can connect with here - in the opening scenes he risks to potentially kill *dozens* of civilians just to kill one bad guy. And because the script writer surely does not like civilians killed by Bond, you bet what happens to bodies that are thrown out from a helicopter above a very crowded place? The movie suggests they disappear in mid-air...
The only advancement in the Bond series that I can make out is that he ceased to be a smoker, and not *every* bad guy is a Russian anymore (some still are - yawn). The rest of the universe remains stuck in former decades, even the fashion at some point - the movie partly reminded me of "The Two Faces of January", especially the scene where they get picked up by an oldtimer car, wearing retro fashion in the middle of the desert...
This movie was as boring as it could be, a warmed up meal with a story that was so familiar, if you swapped the actors with the ones of the previous movies, you could not tell a difference. Even Thomas Newman seemed to be bored writing the score for it. What a waste of resources.
One of the few movies I watched lately, where at some boring scenes I was screaming inside "bring on the story!" - and it's not because there are no explosions (I watch introspective art-house cinema too, no problem), but because the scenes are painfully slow for the information that is revealed, and the chemistry between Bond and his "Bond girl" (what was her name again? forgotten already...) is not working. This movie is 2.5 hours long and you have the impression, that she just fell in love with him because the plot says so. Ah yes, right after a fight scene... we've never seen that before.
Save your money and time and watch something original instead. This is one excellent example on the recent downfall of big-money commercial cinema - most movies either being a reboot, remake or a copy of a previously successful series; highly optimised not to displease or surprise anyone, leading to completely insignificant movies you almost instantly forget. The top actors and money are just thrown into the fire here.
Bond, your retirement has already been overdue at the turn of the millennium.