A Little Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (15 November 2015)

Casino Royale was a spectacular reemergence of the fading James Bond series introducing Daniel Craig. While a bit darker than past Bond films, it had action, thrilling chase scenes and a great plot. Each of the Bond films after Casino Royale were less spectacular in my opinion. Skyfall was just okay. Spectre continued this trend.
It is an old plot - a family takes in an orphan and the father treats the orphan better than his own son. What is interesting is that Craig acted on the other end of this plot in Road To Perditions which was a fabulous movie. The Gladiator had a similar theme.
What bothered me about this movie was the wasted efforts of Christoph Waltz. He was absolutely devilish in Inglorious Bastards and lovable in Django Unchained. In Spectre, he was wasted. Waltz had few lines and little time to act. In fact, Craig himself did little acting. Bond is just made out to be very cold and uncaring save the very final scene.
Other problems are the departure of Judy Dench as M and the horrible song by Sam Smith (who I think is a man but it is hard to tell in the song). My wife just adores Ralph Fiennes, but he cannot hold a candle to Judy Dench.
Finally, how far reaching is this "organization". It just keeps growing and growing. The next Bond flick will have the real leader of this organization on Mars - an intergalactic bad guy. In short, it was not very good.
Now of course the sound effects and videography were amazing and that caused me to score the film a 5. It was fun to be in the theatre, but I would definitely not purchase the film (as I have done for Casino Royale and the Quantum of Solace) for multiple viewing.
The one real bright spot is Q who is delightfully amusing and competent in the movie.
Did anyone think of using one of the past Bonds as M?