Beautiful, yet dull.d

Rating: 6/10 (19 November 2015)

First of all, I love the authentic and cinematography work of the crew. Especially the costumes (especially the suits which 007 was in, just so freaking sexy) and the cinematography. No matter how breathing-taking the story goes, you can always see the spy wearing well- cut exquisite suits and uniforms. Also, I can tell how much efforts had the lighting crew put in the project when half of the story happens at night. It's never easy to shoot in the evening, yet they did perfectly good job. My personal favourite was the scene when the leader of Spectre first surface from the shadow. He hides himself completed in the shade, talks in a low and stone-firm voice to give order changing the world of crime--he passes his order through his men until his finally shows himself and looks at the camera. Everybody knows this guy is really bad-ass. Costume and cinematography together provided very artistic experience for spy action film: elegant yet dangerous.
Secondly, I like the original idea of the screen play: the most respected spy have to save the world from his wicked little brother who is full of hatred back from their childhood. We can see it is trending now in spy action films that spies save the world not actually for the authority but for themselves; specifically, their enemy nowadays have much closer relationships with them, which makes saving the world a side-effect of self-redemption. The idea itself is marvellous, but we have watched similar films before, some of them are excellent, e.g. The Bourne series, yet some of them are just average or even behave the other way around. Unfortunately, Spectre is one of their own.
I do not want to go detailed and make the review a spoiler. In brief, the antagonist aims at claiming revenge on James Bond for the pain he caused so many years back. However, the pain which the bad guy claimed caused is actually so childish, so as the methods he chose, which altogether makes the film a kid's play. Besides, the film seems too long for the script. As a matter of fact, I personally went to the bathroom twice during the film and I surprising found myself still able to catch up with the flow.
OK, let me shortly recap my review. I have watched the Daniel Craig franchises and I love his take on the character. Spectre writes the end and beginning of the story (though they weren't well written), so I am OK with it. However, if I was a new comer of the film, I might not give high score because of the poor elaboration of the story.
6.5/10