What a mess. Ample potential wasted. Too flawed.

Rating: 6/10 (28 November 2015)

Beyond suspension of disbelief: A weak and flawed script and too many issues. Review contains spoilers be warned:
The helicopter thing is ridiculous. Somebody gimme conclusive proof that its possible to right it and fly away after fistfights inside it, hanging off the side and spinning it and turning it over and almost crashing into everything and a sea of people. At least there were repercussions back at mi6 but they did a shitty job of restraining him. Essentially just a stern word. Then the scenes in Rome where he drives all the way from London in the borrowed Aston martin unnecessarily, wasting enormous time. Wtf?? Seduces widow per usual she gives up an address. After having established that her life is in danger and killing two hit men what then he just leaves her there to die? Secret meeting in huge palatial type place with gazillion expensive cars parked outside. Comprising of apparently influential and wealthy people and middlemen and possibly some world leaders who form some shadowy organization with vague ideas of world dominance and control through mass murder terrorism and hysteria, and everyone's on board with it? What the? Bond escapes room with about 200 people without a scratch with only ONE person following him in a ridiculous car chase. Then to Austria. Wait isn't the OO program about to be shut down and isn't he on his own? Even before that wasn't he supposed to be in London and so he has no support from mi6? How is he traveling from one place to another randomly? Where does he get money and resources? Ammunition? Passports, id? Never does he even have a travel bag. Or do you just have to wear a flashy suit and thats it everything's fine? OK anyway. In Austria on a boat approaching a cabin. How was he even able to track that guy? Even Q didn't know his precise location. Guy kills himself bond flies to meet his daughter in a fully functioning state of the art clinic on the top of an alpine mountain or something. Of course. He flies in with a plane. Where is he getting these things seriously. Chase sequence of plane and SUVs. Plane with broken wings and engine failures rams into 2 cars and destroys them after having previously destroyed a third SUV. Bond escapes with NOT a scratch. Takes her back to q's hotel then they go to Morocco. Wooow. There, coordinates are discovered in a secret room in a hotel suite. Coooool. Then onto a train going nowhere. Filler scene about swag woman bond impressed. Romantic dinner interrupted by Batista who lets face it would have killed bond. But, after a fight that would have paralyzed any normal person they manage to overcome Batista. Immediate next scene cut to them making love. Then they get off the train. But there is not a single i repeat NOT A SINGLE bruise on bonds face. He didn't throw out his back, have his ribs broken and has zero body ache or weakness. Man. Sigh.
Then they are invited into the villains lair where they are guests of honor. There is a creepy presentation stupid philosophy preached that is basically an excuse for asserting total control and still extremely vague motivations as should be with every shadowy organization. And then, attempted extremely hazardous and illegal and ridiculous drill surgery before a watch bomb destroys the WHOLE place, bond is able to kill a bazillion people without a scratch even when he is obviously in the open and everyone dies. Except bond the girl and bond's foster bro of course. Back to London. Seriously is his travel time like 0? Just in time for the CNS launch of course. Launch headed by a creepy per usual Andrew Scott. Now everyones on bond's side. They make a plan, are briefly ambushed but half of that plan is successful with Moriarty subdued. In the other half bond is taken to old mi6 ruin where he again overcomes 2 people while blindfolded. Just 2 BTW. You would think for a world dominating organization they'd be 30 at least. Anyway inside he looks for Oppenheimer or whatever his name is. There are, get this: there are photos of Vesper, M, De Silva, etc on the walls, bond's name in spray paint and arrows guiding bond forward. What the?? who does this Is this an antagonist or a treasure hunt coordinator? Why not shoot bond in the bloody head when so many chances arose. I mean what is with the show off. I mean just imagine if bond had arrived early he would have found interns pasting the photos on the wall and spray painting arrows. Jusst...no. Cliché save the girl and die or escape situation. Hero escapes with girl on boat and brings down entire helicopter crashing on a bridge in the middle of the city with ONE GUNSHOT and without any civilian casualties after which he turns his back on everything throws a gun that is licensed to him in the river and walks off hand in hand, in front of his boss. with the chick he wants to bone. after wrecking things and causing mayhem worldwide just because he helped catch the bad guy; by, I repeat, shooting one bullet at what seems to be a heavily armored helicopter?? Guess so. Man bond's the coolest.. And guess what Monica Belucci's pointless character is probably very very dead. Tldr; Forget dis. Just watch Casino Royale again: that glorious masterful epic.