James bombed

Rating: 4/10 (10 November 2015)

I CAN'T decide which of Daniel Craig's four James Bond films that I dislike the most. It's a toss-up between Quantum of Solace and Spectre.
Sam Mendes, who directed Spectre and the last Bond film, Skyfall, at least had an intriguing baddie in Skyfall (Silva, played by Javier Bardem). In fact, Skyfall was a run-of-the-mill film until Silva entered the picture. Thus, I wasn't hoping for much in Bond's 24th outing.
As expected, the spectre of disappointment looms large over this film. From the amateurish helicopter scene to the girl detained in a building rigged to explode, Spectre raises the stakes but falls flat.
The terrorist's biggest crime is that he wants to control the global intelligence network, which means that he can tap into any CCTV in the world. This theme, of course, has shades of intelligence whistle- blower Edward Snowden written all over it. I could have told the terrorist to be a Twitter or Instagram subscriber instead of plotting this highly risible plan.
The terrorist, Franz Oberhauser (Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz of Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained), is lame. He lacks the gravitas and menace of Silva.
He talks too much, too, so much so that Bond's biggest putdown against him is that he (Bond) welcomes being killed so that he doesn't have to listen to him talk anymore.
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