Spectre (SPOILER REVIEW): A triumphant entertainment that contains a few controversial problems inside its plot

Rating: 9/10 (2 November 2015)

First of all we start on a bang with the gun-barrel and a words that stole our attention: "The dead are alive". Then we got the prologue. On a mission in Mexico (unofficially ordered by the previous M in a surprising cameo of our beloved Judi Dench) James Bond kills two men arranging to blow up a stadium and gives chase to Marco Sciarra (his main target), who survived the blast and. Inside a helicopter Bond follows and in the ensuing struggle (an awesome fist fight that must be seen in huge screen of IMAX) he throws both Sciarra and the pilot out of the helicopter, stealing Sciarra's octopus ring as he does so.
I have nothing against Sam Smith or his song, but I think that "Wrinting 's on the Wall" has nothing to do against "You Know my Name" or "Skyfall". Although the visuals from the title sequence are very gorgeous and well orchestrated.
Back in London Bond is indefinitely taken off field duty by the current M, who is in the midst of a power struggle with C, the head of the newly created Joint Intelligence Service, who wants to create the "Nine Eyes" intelligence co-operation agreement between nine countries, and close down the '00' section in the process. That adds political relevance to the plot and makes Bond standing in current real time and not in his personal fantasy world like other movies such as Die Another Day made us to believe back in time. Bond obviously disobeys M's order and travels to Rome to attend Sciarra's funeral (part of the orders by Dench's M). That evening he visits Sciarra's widow Lucia, who tells him about a criminal organisation to which her husband belonged and where they are meeting that evening. Bond enters the meeting by showing the ring, where he sees the head of the organisation, in shadow, chairing a meeting. The head punishes the failure of Mexico DF by a brutal scene within Mr. Hinx and discovers Bond(so tense and breathtaking this moment is!). Bond escapes the meeting (car chase through Rome included). Moneypenny informs him that a reference he heard in both Mexico and the meeting will lead to Mr White, a former member of the Quantum organisation which is revealed to be a subsidiary of the Spectre organisation. Bond also asks for a check on the name Franz Oberhauser.
Bond travels to Austria to find White, and finds him dying of radiation poisoning. White tells Bond to find his daughter (Madeline Swann) who will take him to L'Americian, which will in turn lead him to the organisation. Bond finds Swann at the clinic, but she is snatched by Mr. Hinx. Bond chases the kidnappers by plane in a truly spectacular fashion, and forces their three cars to crash, before he makes his escape with Swann. The pair then meet with Q, who reveals that Sciarra's ring contains digital files linking Oberhauser, the leader of the organisation, and Bond's three previous missions. Swann then informs them about the name Spectre, and that L'Americian is a hotel in Morocco where they discover lots of hidden information from White. They travel to the nearest point a train will go, but are again attacked by Mr Hinx (probably the best fight in the movie!); Bond throws him off the train in a very funny scene (trousers out). At the end of the journey, they are transported to a facility in the desert, where they are met by Oberhauser, the son of the man who looked after the younger Bond when he had just been orphaned... And this is where the problems may start. Oberhauser informs Bond that C is part of the Spectre organisation (Predictable). Then tortures Bond and he reveals that he now goes by the name Ernst Stavro Blofeld (predictable but necessary); he changed his name to one from his mother's bloodline after faking his death 20 years ago (and his personal story against Bond comes from his childhood: Blofeld's father got more intimate with Bond, making Blofeld gone rogue... But I don't think that everything is a revenge against Bond but Blofeld tells it to make him more vulnerable). After a skillful torture scene Bond and Swann escape with the help of Bond's exploding watch, destroying the facility in the process and scarring Blofeld.
Back in London to the grand finale: Bond & Swann meet M, Bill Tanner, Q and Moneypenny, and they travel to arrest C and stop the launch of the Nine Eyes programme. En route Bond is kidnapped. M and the others escape and go after C; in an ensuing struggle, C is killed (such a waste of a potential character). Bond has meanwhile been taken to the old MI6 building (derelict since the attack in Skyfall) but he disables his captors before entering the building (so damn easy!). He meets Blofeld, who tells him the building is rigged to explode in three minutes and that Swann is hidden somewhere within it. Bond finds her in a truly stupid way and the couple escapes by boat out onto the Thames. They chase Blofeld's helicopter and shoot it down; the helicopter crashes onto Westminster Bridge. Bond leaves Blofeld to be arrested by M and leaves with Swann (that reminded me the Iron Man 3 finale... so disappointing). And the surprising twist in the story: Bond retrieves his old Aston Martin DB5 from Q and drives off with Swann. Happy ending!
All things considered, no doubt about the quality of the movie (it stands as one of the best of the whole franchise and another Craig great movie as well), but starts out so good to vanishing little by little until coming to a forced finale. Maybe the stakes were so high after the terrific Skyfall. But don't be coy or negative about the movie: taking it as what it is it gives you thrills and chills down to your spine all the time.