Anti-Climatic but Not Bad

Rating: 6/10 (20 June 2016)

Spectre follows James Bond after the events of Skyfall as he hunts down yet another villain. Meanwhile the 00 agent program is being threatened.
As expected, Daniel Craig is a great James Bond. Léa Seydoux, who plays the latest Bond lady, does a great job as well.
The action was also solid. While it wasn't horribly realistic, it was fun. And that's what action should be.
However, the movie does have it's flaws. Christoph Waltz as the main villain sounds great, right? Everyone remembers him in Inglourious Basterds right? He was great. Not so much in this movie. He really only had a handful of scenes, but he just played Christoph Waltz in those scenes, he wasn't really the villain. He didn't pull off a great performance, he was just fine. Furthermore, him as a villain was kind of anti-climatic. He just popped in once in a while, but didn't really do anything.
All the other Daniel Craig Bond movies have taken an original twist on the secret agent genre, but this one really didn't. It was classic Bond, and while that isn't a bad thing it isn't a good thing either. It never strayed too far from the formula, so it kind of stands out from the rest of the series as less exceptional. Going back to the villain, he was just another classic Bond villain. Maybe Waltz just didn't have enough to work with, I don't know.
On top of that, Bond and his love interest didn't have a lot of relationship development or chemistry, yet they still fell in love. It was treated like this big deal, but I just didn't buying it.
Overall Spectre was, despite all the negativity I expressed, still good. I had a good time, everything was in place for the most part, some stuff just didn't work as well as it could have. Yes, it was a disappointment, but that doesn't make it bad. In the end I'd recommend this movie to fans of the Daniel Craig Bond movies. Although you might as well watch it anyway if you've seen the others.