A Bond Film Learning with Tribute to Classics

Rating: Null/10 (9 November 2015)

The Spectre is a Bond film I like as I could tell Mendes have picked up some good tricks from film classics.
The opening scene in Mexico City is a tribute to Godfather's scene where Robert de Niro walked in rooftop to kill the gangster boss in Godfather Part II. Taken in one take, this time not in New York but in Mexico City but also in a manner of a parade. This scene is indeed a credit to the whole film.
The next scene from classic is the train and the Roll Royce picking up James and Madeleine amidst nowhere. A scene paying tribute to Hitchcock spy classic of North by Northwest played by Cary Grant and Eva Mari Saint, only with more explicit sex than crossing a tunnel and the dusting of crop by the aerophane coming also from nowhere.
Then come the scene with torture of Bond in tribute to Woman with a Dragon Tattoo where the same actor (i.e. Daniel Craig) being tortured by a Nazi in a close chamber. A helpless Craig rescued only by a woman.
All these scene, together with the cinematography that captures Mexico City, Rome and London so beautifully that makes Spectre one of the best of Bond films with violence and dockside's that matches the 21st century.