Spectre - One Of The Best Bond Films Ever In My Opinion [ warning contains a few spoilers ] .

Rating: 10/10 (10 December 2016)

I'm relatively new to Daniel Craig's Bond , having watched the brilliant ' Skyfall ' I went and bought each of the recent 007 films .
From beginning to end ' Spectre ' is...well , spectacular - possibly one of the best Bond movies ever , Sam Mendes has delivered his most stylish Bond film to date , I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of it .
The action sequences , the score [ the big band which accompanies the opening scenes is just wonderful and never misses a beat ] , the locations , the characterisation , everything is perfect .
Daniel Craig has taken over the mantle of ' Best Bond actor ' for me , he is the quintessential assassin , he blends perfectly with Ben Wishaw's ' Q' with Ralph Fiennes doing an excellent job as Judi Dench's replacement .
The humour is wonderful - notice the timing of Q and Bill Tanner's laughter coming to an end with just one glance from our hero when he is being mocked for ' bringing home one piece ' [ the steering wheel of the DB5 ] - ' Can you make any other bird calls ' Bond manages to let out before Blofeld pierces his skull with a needle - ' And now we know what C stands for - Careless ' [ my favourite line from Spectre ! ] .
Spectre isn't without a small amount of criticism - Andrew Scott's ' Max Denbigh ' may be a little too similar to his ' Moriarty ' from ' Sherlock but nevertheless he still comes across as an adequate adversary for ' M ' - Dave Bautista's ' Mr Hinx ' may have forgotten his orders when he tries to kill Bond on the train [ if Blofeld did indeed want his half brother back alive ] but , so what , Bond Movies have always been about suspending our beliefs for little while , it's part of their charm . I personally would have liked to have seen more development of the underused Noami Harris as ' Moneypenny ' and Rory Kinnear's ' Bill Tanner ' .
Lea Seydoux as Dr Madeleine Swann provides the glamour and a sometimes unbelievable change of clothing [ suspend those beliefs now ] , she plays her part nicely eventually winning the heart and falling for our favourite agent - Christoph Waltz provides enough menace and psychotic charm as the ubiquitous Ernst Stavro Blofeld ' my mother's maiden name ' , hopefully it won't be long before he escapes from prison to haunt poor James once more [ the ending was set up nicely ] .
This latest Bond film is over two hours in length but we are swept along at such a pace that it seems to be a much shorter offering - I'm truly hoping that the rumours of this being Daniel Craig's farewell to the Bond Franchise are just that , rumours - I simply cannot imagine Bond being played by anyone else - Daniel Craig is just getting into his stride , I'm certain Sam Mendes will get another two movies out of him yet , we can but hope - Spectre , for me has set the bar in Bond Movies , if it is to be bettered then Craig has to play James Bond - again [ please ] .