A Better Bond

Rating: 8/10 (21 January 2016)

With Skyfall, Sam Mendes managed to save the new chapter in the Bond franchise from obscurity. With Spectre, the American Beauty auteur raises the bar to boiling point.
All the pieces of Bond's missions - the 'spectres' of his past - come together as an international criminal conglomeration from the early days of Ian Flemming's books known as Spectre. Daniel Craig does an outstanding job, under the guidance of Mendes, in bringing out a classic yet edgy version of Bond.
This chapter in the franchise has been all about Bond's origins, and in Spectre, we are brought into Bond's home and shown parts of his psyche that we haven't yet seen as an audience.
It's sad that this may be Craig's final outing as 007. But if it is, then he will have left on a high note which I don't believe has been achieved since the early days of Sean Connery.
Bravo to Mendes and Craig for bringing out the best Bond has to offer.