Don't believe the hype, it's really not very good

Rating: 3/10 (14 November 2015)

That's the problem with the Internet, too much information and most of it useless! If you go by the reviews, it would seem that this is a great movie, but it isn't, let me tell you why.
Opening sequence, time wasted in a "continuous shoot"... Yawn, I get the idea, festival of the dead...move along, nothing more to see here. The building falls down and the parade continues? Strange. Then Bond gets close to a criminal's widow (Monica B) but it goes nowhere as in a relationship (insofar as Bond can have one of course!). I thought Monica was going to be his "lady of interest" throughout the movie? Didn't you? Her role serves no purpose. We found lots of flat sections and then bang, a chase, or action sequence. No development, just action sequences stitched together with bland sections. A high school playwright could have done much better.
Compared to Casino Royale, this is a badly sequenced movie. Then the opening song is hopeless and inane, with no memorable redeeming tone or 'tie in' to the movie, which they used to have.
We found the movie overall to be poor in colour saturation, being mostly a greyscale movie, possibly the theater but it does have all the latest Barco digital equipment, so I don't think it was the theater, just a poorly executed video capture that could have been run thru Adobe Premiere for a much better result.
Then Bond gets involved with Mr. White's daughter, probably half his age, oh yawn, where have we seen this before? What happened to Monica B? Oh yeah, she was there for 2 minutes and then gone, a total waste of her skills and character/role.
And the final sequence, Bond shoots down a helicopter with a pistol? Hello, that is dumb and I would hazard totally unlikely and improbable... from a fast moving boat being tossed around and considering the distances involved.
Another funny part, at Spectre's 'hideout', a meteorite of that size would have made a substantially larger crater than what is shown. Oh well. Then Bond is tied down to the 'torture chair', conveniently built for this purpose. Of course they leave his watch on his wrist, yawn. If Spectre knows anything, they know 007 employs gadgets.
And Spectre has a lot of people monitoring video feeds...that is from the 1970's....only reviewed if needed, as software monitors for key facial shapes and audio scanning for keywords, then flags it to be reviewed by a human. Really poor, somewhat akin to the 'computer/servers' in Skyfall on the island (super computers look like fish drying racks?).
I hear this is possibly Daniel Craig's last 007 movie, a shame he has to go out on such a poorly written story of a recycled theme of the elimination of the MI5 007 department (Skyfall just went thru that!).
So, boring opening sound track, no exciting opening sequence, poor colour rendition, flat line story with occasional action sequences with poorly coordinated music score (it was not very good), a waste of acting talent and a recycled story line and Bloefeld character to boot! I definitely won't be adding this sordid tale to my 007 collection of movies unless I see it at a garage sale for $2.