Never felt like watching a Bond Movie

Rating: 4/10 (6 December 2015)

I have serious problems with this movie being named as a Bond Movie, because there is not a single scene where you get even an ounce of hint that Bond is SPYING something... Someone... not at all..
Just a hide and seek, run and chase movie. I had serious doubts about the movie the moment I knew it is a Sam Mendes movie. The guy should have been kept away from a Bond movie after Skyfall which was ANOTHER 'Peeking into Bond's personal life' movie.
All this movie is about is someone close to Bond in the past coming back to take revenge, just like was in Skyfall with M.
The major missing elements of the Bond movie were, like the beginning, an on going mission (Casino Royale track, spy and chase the Bomb Maker makes perfect sense of what Bond does when it is not a big mission), introduction of villain and mission (like le chifre as villain and beat him at Poker to nail the terror funds which made me glued to watch HOW Bond is gonna do that), the spying sequences (Like following the second bomber later killed at the Airport and then spying Le chifre in hotel) the twist (betrayal of Vesper after intensely involved with her) and superb action sequences (again the parkour chase in the beginning of Casino Royale, the Airport chase sequence, the staircase fight in hotel, the conclusive victory of Bond at the end).
Mendes doesn't understand that nobody cares what Bond was in his past personal life. All I (hope many more die-hard Bond fans as well) want to see is Bond's unbeatable expertise as a Spy, escaping most dangerous predicament in a way only he can, making love for the success of the mission, and after all beat the most vicious enemies for the sake of the nation.
I am double disappointed given the fact is that Craig, as he displayed in Casino Royale, is the 'closest to reality' Bond we have seen so far and his talent is wasted by stupid directors like Mendes and Mark Forster. It is a shame Martin Campbell was not chosen (or he declined) for another Bond movie.
I am really sad to see Craig leave the franchise like this.