Worst in the series

Rating: 3/10 (30 October 2015)

I know that sounds dramatic, but it's true. Almost 3 hours. Of nothing.
Just talking, talking, talking. Not nearly enough action, no character development, lazy writing, and just a bad script overall.
For a film of that length, it's hard to believe there's such little depth and purpose of the main villain. I was looking forward to Waltz' performance, but they did such a disservice to the character and did nothing with it. Making him... yes, Blofield, was pointless. It served for nothing. The writers (all 7 of them) were clearly completely void of any ideas or creativity.
They had to link all the films together and make Oberhauser (Blofield) responsible for everything, he basically admits to being solely responsible for all the sh!t that has happened to Bond since Royale, that was their lazy cheap philosophy of the character, and f-ck it, he's also Blofield. So Bond wants to kill him. That is the plot. Is it that bad? Yeah.
Once Bond is after Blofield in the final battle I was at least expecting the film to go out on a high, but it's a weak chase that ends nowhere. The entire film and every action sequence was just Anti-climatic. That is the film in a nutshell. No punch, no fun. Nothing. It just drags. Nothing memorable at all. If Oberhauser wasn't Blofield, there would be nothing to talk about. And for a Bond film of nearly 3 hours, that isn't right.
Even the opening scene, had been done before and better in Goldeneye. The scene where Bond jumps off a cliff and basically divebombs into the plane, and maintains flight seconds before crashing. Silly, right? At least it was fun, and memorable. Similar scene in Spectre with a chopper, but smaller in scale. Poor for what should be the big opening. The action overall was just uninspired. Bit of a dull car chase with Bautista which ends with Bond escaping using the ejector seat, looking chuffed with himself in the process. He just destroyed the technically astounding Aston Martin he had for 5 minutes, and for what? The ejector seat should really be a lost resort. It's like he got bored of the car chase (I did) and thought f-ck it, I'm bailing.
It looks good. The film is well shot, but there's no fun to be had. Nothing profound. Just a bad script that made for a bad film. It's that simple.
I thought Skyfall was victim of a poor writing and style over substance much like Spectre, but it was more ambitious and had some nice action here and there. This though, was 3 hours of nothingness.
I didn't come here to hate. I had to vent frustration, as a fan of the series. There's some good lines in here, and some nice camera-work and locations. But that is it. Nothing else going for it.
Poor effort.