I love most James Bond Films but not this one

Rating: 5/10 (21 November 2015)

"Spectre" has most of the things that a James Bond film should have: beautiful locations, cool cars and car chases, good-looking women dressed impeccably, and nearly indestructible villains. The trouble is, this James Bond film doesn't seem to know how to put these elements together into a great spy film.
Take the big car chase, for example. James Bond escapes from a bad guy's lair in his shiny silver Aston Martin. A shiny red one (Ferrari or Maserati) is in pursuit. There's a chase where we have no idea of what's at stake. The chasing car takes no action except to chase Bond. Finally, Bond escapes. Was that ever in doubt? It's like the script said "insert car chase here," so they did.
Bond meets women. He beds them (not on screen). They immediately give information to him that takes him to the next stage in the film. It's a plot device that takes mere minutes in the film. Why not just ask them and save all the bother because I'm not buying the seductions.
Bond and his main squeeze get to the main baddie's lair. It's got observatory domes and it's inside of a crater. It looks like a home for wayward astronomers. It's got a meteorite in a big dark room. We never know what, if anything, this has to do with anything.
And all of this is for what? In the end, really not very much.
Want to watch a James Bond film? Might as well watch "Goldfinger" or "Thunderball" again.