Everything A Bond Fan Craves

Rating: 8/10 (7 November 2015)

I saw "Spectre", starring Daniel Craig-Besides the last 3 Bond movies, Cowboys & Aliens, Lara Croft:Tomb Raider; Monica Bellucci-Shoot 'Em Up, The Matrix Reloaded; Dave Bautista-Guardians of the Galaxy, Riddick; Lea Seydoux-Mission:Impossible_Ghost Protocol, Inglourious Basterds and Christoph Waltz-Horrible Bosses 2, Inglourious Basterds.
This is the 24th Bond film and Daniel Craig's 4th-with rumors flying about that this might be his last. Personally, I have suspicions that it could be just a ploy to get more money, myself, but I could be wrong. But I kind of doubt it, with a clue being that Daniel is a producer of this film, meaning he has an interest in it being successful. We will just have to wait and see, of course. Anyway, this is the best Daniel has done in the series, at least in my opinion, because it has all the elements a Bond fan craves. Fantastic stunts, great car chases, beautiful Bond girls/women, suitably tough henchmen-in the Oddjob/Jaws vein-and an equally suitably villainous villain. This film ties the previous 3 Bond films-Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace & Skyfall- together with a fantastic conspiracy and the introduction of Spectre as the organization trying to take over the world. FYI:There was no mention in this film but in the original movies, Spectre stood for Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge & Extortion. Daniel receives a video from the former M-made before she died, obviously-that leads to Mr. White-remember him from Casino Royale?-and then continues on to his daughter Lea. After that, he interviews Monica, the wife of a member of Spectre, that leads to his meeting with Christoph-called Franz Oberhauser here but could he go by another name, like maybe, Oh I don't know, maybe Ernst Stavro Blofeld? He has a henchman named Oddjob....I mean Hinx, played by Dave, who does not speak very much, letting his actions speak for him. Well, he does get to say one 4 letter word, near the end. As all of this is going on, there is also an effort by a government bureaucrat to shut down the 00 program; he thinks it is obsolete when you can use today's technology to replace the agents, but clearly, he doesn't know Bond. A lot of the action sequences look like Daniel is actually doing them, but I'm sure that a stunt man helped out just a little. The only complaint I can think of is with the opening song; It is called 'Writing's On The Wall' and it is sung by Sam Smith. The music is not bad but I don't care for his falsetto style of singing. I know, it is a minor complaint, but I'm a big Bond fan and I love the movies and the music. It's rated "PG-13" for action, violence, disturbing images, language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 2 hours & 28 minutes. I really liked it and would buy it on Blu-Ray.