Enjoyable in some places, but very clichéd overall

Rating: 6/10 (29 October 2015)

To be perfectly honest, I've never seen a Bond movie before - at least not all the way through, except for Skyfall. I've usually found them all to be incredibly long, noisy, loud and not very exciting for a three-hour film. And Spectre is one of those films that is just SO clichéd, like literally everything: the villain, the romantic lead, the action sequences, and what I like to call the "Hiccup-Hicdown Method", where basically the movie pauses for like ten minutes for exposition then suddenly jumps into an action sequence, then stops again, like "Bye, action scene! See you soon!". It's pretty messy like that.
I will admit that while I find spy films in general pretty underwhelming, this movie didn't really help. In fact, it made it WORSE. The film starts out great - fantastically, actually; we see the opening start off in Mexico city (yeah, foreign country, no s**t), and the set they have there is incredible. I could not believe how fantastic the Day of the Dead parade at the start of the film looked. Then, you notice afterwards that it uses a brilliant follow-shot which goes uninterrupted for the first four minutes, as we see Bond and this chick we've never seen before go upstairs, make out, Bond jump out a window, walk across the building, and then point his rifle at a nearby window. Scenes like this are great, but the rest of the movie followed some kind of weird cycle that TRIES to be epic and suave, but just feels messily done, ESPECIALLY with Madeline Swan - OH MY GOD, I hated this actress; the hyperventilating, the forced-in bad childhood, the way the camera lingers on her face every time she's on screen. Urrrrggh!!!
Overall, it was OKAY, but very, very bland and boringly-exposited. If you like the film, that's totally fine! There's some good stuff, but the action scenes are ones hat have been done about 1,000,000 times in BETTER action movies. I don't know; maybe its because I'm not that big a Bond fan, maybe its because the film came out in 2015 (where absolute EVERYTHING is being re-done).
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