Mediocre return of the standard Bond tale after Skyfall's unorthodoxy

Rating: 6/10 (5 November 2015)

I feel that they envisioned Spectre as the start of Bond being camp. It flips between Daniel Craig's serious Bond and Craig trying morph himself into the campy 60s and 70s version. The tone felt very inconsistent.
It starts with a very long take of Bond in Mexico, hot the trail of Spectre. Did it need a long take? No. Did the long take add anything special to the scene? No. It felt like it was there because the cool kids like it.
The action scenes were atrocious. The camera always felt like it was too close to the action. And to add to that, the writers seem to think that the more moments where people smash into things, the better the scene is. Having watched Rogue Nation just a couple of days before, the action scenes in Spectre felt hollow and lacked any real tension. The action set pieces were plain and lame. I don't know if it's the writing or the directing, but something was definitely not working.
For example, the first action scene in Mexico. A struggle in a helicopter should be more exciting than when appeared on screen. Watching it felt like a series of kicks and punches, with the occasional strangulation that didn't seem all that exciting, which is very wrong.
I feel that Sam Mendes & gang has offered what he can to the franchise, and new blood needs to be brought in. It's the first Craig era movie that I've seriously thought about the need to end Craig's run as Bond. Craig is great as serious Bond, but if they're moving towards a campy Bond, Craig just doesn't fit.