Could've been better with Roger Moore at the lead

Rating: 7/10 (27 November 2015)

Saw it almost a week ago, didn't know if I wanted to write a review on the film. I know it won't be popular, but if I do write I can't help but say what I think. I loved Skyfall, I think it's one of the best Bond films ever, and as I said then, easily the best of Daniel Craig. Craig is a great actor, and it was wasted in the earlier Bond films he made in the stupid reboot of the Bond series. And I do mean stupid reboot because if you do reboot the series and start all over with a young Bond you can't keep the old M, no matter how good she was.
Then came Skyfall, and Sam Mendes, and he did improve it so much he gave Bond back his sense of dry wry humor, he brought back The Bondish feel to the series, and all this while allowing Craig to become a real Bond, being the great actor he always was. So I was really happy he stayed with the franchise, and now I'm even more bitterly disappointed.
Spectre is such a disappointment because it has so much potential, a great cast, a director that does understand the series and the lead character, so holes in the storyline were unexpected, but they were still evidently there, though specifying them would mean adding spoilers, and I don't believe in these. Worse than this, somebody decided that Bond needed a personal relation to the leading villain, he didn't. It only makes the story less likely and more egotistical. As if the entire world revolves around Bond. All this including the plot holes wouldn't matter if the series carried on with the light hearted style it had at the Roger Moore era. It doesn't meld well with the current style, the darker Bond created by Craig and co. it was saved by Mendes from becoming a Bourne wannabe, but if it wants to feel real, it has to make real sense, and it doesn't.