Slightly shaken, but definitely not stirred..

Rating: 8/10 (7 November 2015)

Daniel Craig returns as James Bond agent 007 in SPECTRE the latest installment in this evergrowing franchise. He shows us he still has what it takes to be the suave superspy, even if this is tipped off to be the final time he steps into this role. If so he has left it a perfect ending for his run as Bond, and for the most part this film as a whole is another solid entry into the franchise and makes you sad to think Craig may not be returning in the inevitable sequel.
This time Bond is facing his demons with SPECTRE an organisation which is the "author of all his pain" according to our main villain played by Christoph Waltz who i will talk about more later. One of the main complaints about Skyfall was that there was no clear Bond girl (Moneypenny doesn't count). Well SPECTRE completely makes up for that with Dr. Madeline Swann played by Lea Seydoux. She provides an absolutely perfect Bond girl to reflect off of Daniel Craig's Bond. She is gorgeous, stylish and knows how to handle a gun which is touched on very well. In fact SPECTRE has one of the best casts i have ever seen from a Bond film. But there are times when the film comes to a slow grinding halt involving the "termination" of the '00' programme from Andrew Scott's Q. This takes a lot of the limelight away from Ralph Fiennes M and Ben Whishaw's Q, but they both get their time to shine.
Now, the performance from Christoph Waltz was great and he provides some great scenes, but by some i mean not a lot. I wish more time had been put into developing his character like Javier Bardem's Silva and the twist involving his character is something we did see coming which is unfortunate. We also get a ridiculous but highly entertaining and scene stealing performance from Dave Bautista who plays nothing more than a henchman but does it with such finesse that we don't care.
Overall, SPECTRE is a great entry into the world of James Bond and i highly recommend seeing it. It gave me all i wanted with stunning locations, brilliant action sequences (the one at the very beginning is extremely tense and stands out with perfect cinematography). It may be slightly shaken at points, but it definitely isn't stirred!