More like a generic action movie

Rating: 5/10 (4 December 2015)

I left the cinema wondering if I had just seen a generic action movie or a James Bond film. Overall it was a decent action movie with brilliant cinematography, in particular the first scene (Dia de Los Muertos), the action scenes i.e. car crashes, fight scenes and helicopter/ plane scenes were thrilling. But here is the 'but', in fact there are many 'buts' first one being director Sam Mendes. The bloke has completely ran out of ideas, the script was appallingly weak. In the last few bond movies, we have seen a hot head bond who ignores orders and needs to be tracked with some micro chips in his blood, am I the only person that is finding this tiresome? Why can't they present us with the positive side of bond, like one who sits and have a dialogue with M. I'm bored of this emotionally strung bond, it is very predictable.
Plot twist – I was battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayers hoping there will be a plot twist somewhere, but disappointingly to no avail. A long winded 2hr30mins action movie with a predictably shabby plot would be the best way to describe it. Christoph Waltz was a great actor but boy was he under used? Bond supposedly had a surrogate brother Blofled he grew up with in the Bavarian Alps who runs the biggest crime syndicate in the world (Spectre) and we have never heard of him, I thought Bond grew up in Scotland with McAngus? Half of the things Blofeld said in that horrible torture scene (Morocco) didn't make sense whatsoever, he talked a lot but there was zero substance to it. Blofled senior was known to be motivated by a burning desire for wealth and power but Blofled Jnr just comes across as a Jealous psychopath whose principal objective was revenge for the preferential treatment and love Bond got from Blofled Snr.
The torture scene was slightly cringe, I mean Bond is known to get out of difficulties with his suave manoeuvring skills but that Omega watch scene was terrible and extremely unrealistic. As mentioned by Pierce Brosnan, the movie was too long and embarrassing scenes like that ought to have been edited but to put it in perspective Mad Max took over 24months to edit and Spectre was edited in just over 3 months, I know which was the best action movie of the year. The editing was tragically poor and Lee Smith should hold his head in shame, how do you shoot down an helicopter from about a mile away with a .380 automatic gun? What was the purpose of Monica Belucci? That scene was pointless, we never heard anything of her again. I was hoping there would be a plot twist somewhere. Bond appeared in a funeral of a man he has just killed and slept with his widow the same nightvery smooth.
The shaky camera in the action scene is just amateurish, Sam Mended if you are reading this please limit it. It doesn't make the action scene look any more tense or at least minimise it to one action scene not when actors are sat down having a dialogue just before a fight scene.
The soundtrack or lack of one is not befitting of a bond movie, I felt the bloke that sang the theme song struggled to fill in Adele's boots from Skyfall, it was terrible and the chords were shockingly bad. Oh and MoneyPenny, I couldn't end this review without mentioning Naomi Harris could I. After her horror showing in Skyfall I thought that was the last we would see of her, so I was surprise to see her appear in Spectre. She surpassed her mediocre acting from Skyfall in Spectre, she is just a poor actress and not deserving of a role in a bond movie. I hope this is the last we would see of her and Sam Mendes.