Liked it but...

Rating: 7/10 (25 November 2015)

...didn't love it. It felt like a real Bond film for the 20 minutes or so they were in the villain's lair. That was classic. Bond is taken captive, given the utmost respect and care, the villain unfolds his world-view and plan, etc. (Won't spoil it for you.) Before and after that, though, it really didn't feel like a Bond film. It seems with the Craig films the producers have been circling their legacy but never fully embracing it. They are trying to root it to the real world but I don't think that's what people go to Bond films for. Or maybe it is. Maybe I'm the dinosaur Bond has been accused of being since Brosnan took the role. I love Craig (and Brosnan) but I feel the Bond films since Cubby died have been like cover bands to their objects of tribute. Now that the narrative arc of all of Craig's films have, belabored as it is, been completed may he please have one stand-alone film that makes him what he has been for 50+ years?