Spectre - review: Simple Minded & Beautiful

Rating: 6/10 (25 February 2016)

Positives:
1. The cinematography is great
2. The acting is good all across the board
3. Christoph Waltz steals every scene he's in
4. Daniel Craig plays a very flamboyant James Bond (I like it)
5. Dave Batista's character is very intimidating (I love his introduction scene)
6. The opening tracking shot at the start of the movie is great
7. I loved everything in the opening credits
Negatives:
1. This is a generic action movie that is covered up by its style (which Sam Mendes tried to disguise)
2. Spectre is just like Quantum of Solace, but it doesn't feel that way because, Sam Mendes used his glossy directing style to mask this movie
3. Just like Quantum of Solace, this movie suffers from action overload
4. As a movie progresses it should hit certain beats in order to keep me entertained or on the edge of my seat, however, I feel like this movie just trails along, I become bored, and then uninterested.
5. Christoph Waltz didn't get enough screen time (just nitpicking, but it's true)
6. There are to many coincidences; Bond is on top of things every time (sometimes it feels like these miraculous death defying feats come out of his as$)
7. Helicopter triple barrel roll, really
8. The start of the opening scene was perfectly executed, then it went off the rails, and then it turned into some action mess (the sequence as a whole could of or should have been entirely elaborate)
Overall, this movie is beautiful but also boring. Spectre has some great moments, but by the end of it all, I just don't care.
Final Grade:
C+