A review of Spectre and what I thought about it

Rating: 8/10 (27 October 2015)

Walking out of Spectre tonight I heard a lot of mixed opinions on the movie. I thought that Spectre was a solid Bond movie and a good addition to the small collection of Daniel Craig Bond movies. You have to remember that this film is trying to live up to Casino Royale and Skyfall, which in my opinion were the two Bond movies to date. The reason this movie fell short was due to it had nothing going for it. Casino Royale reinvented Bond and showed a new take in which a darker Bond was portrayed. Then Skyfall rebooted what seemed to be a dead franchise after The train wreck which was Quantum of Solace. Spectre had no ambition to be better to better than the last Bond movie it was simply a follow on from Skyfall.
Spectre had some great action sequences most notably the car chase and the fight sequence on the train. The story was also very intriguing as it left the audience guessing and gasping as to what was in front thrown in front of them. The main problems for this film were that, the film was trying to take two different themes of Bond movies and merge them into one. They tried to mix the Daniel Craig Bond movies with the original theme of Bond which didn't work. The film was also slightly too long I felt and could have been cut short.
Daniel Craig was once again excellent as James Bond and proved why he's been offered another movie. Christopher Waltz was OK as the Bond villain but wasn't in the movie enough for me to say he was a classic Bond villain. The biggest surprise to me was how good Lea Seydoux was as the main Bond girl. I thought she had great chemistry with Craig and not to mention good to look at. Everyone else who was involved in the movie gave solid performances and helped the movie function.
Overall I believe this was good movie but not quite as good as it's predecessors. It had a lot of things going for it, but the film was in two minds and couldn't figure out what type of Bond movie to be.