Goldmember

Rating: 6/10 (17 December 2015)

Have to say that I really enjoyed this, but they've gone backwards. I know a lot of people have commented on its runtime, but I didn't have issue with it. Spectre could have been right up there with Casino Royale but the austin powers reveal in the third act was unnecessary, not sure why the writers felt the need to do that? Casino Royale, QOS and Skyfall all played up the Illuminati theme. Wish they'd explored that theme in a less cartoonish way, in fact the organisation 'spectre' wasn't required as they'd already introduced Quantum, so why not keep that? All marketing, spectre harks back to the good old days(..and hence the nostalgia vote) and Quantum brings up memories of a crap experience. The link back to JB and Blofelt, well that was just plain silly. Didn't enjoy the song either, in fact I really disliked it, should have been much better, no excuses. The music score also appeared to be a rehash of skyfall, not impressed with that. In summary they've played it safe though and gone back to an old Bond formula which ultimately has no where to go from here, again nostalgia seems to be gripping Hollywood at the moment. Daniel Craig is brilliant but there's no where to go with this incarnation of Bond, may be its time to call it day and do something different? Would be sad to see him hang up the tux but the writers owe him a brilliant story to exit on.