Looks empty !

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2016)

This film is so exciting, at least on the surface. In the pre-credit sequence, there is an overwhelming helicopter action. And then, a stylish car chase in Rome, a rough battle in the Alps between Bond's plane and Mr.Hinx's van, gigantic explosions of the Spectre facility in the desert, and so on.
As I saw the film on IMAX, those action scenes moved me the more violently. At the same time, however, I felt there was something missing, or that there was some big hole in the story.
That is, this film seems to me to only show us Bond's efforts to track out Spectre's hideout by tracing various clues such as Sciarra, his widow Lucia, the hotel L'Americain. To make a long story short, the film only made Bond find the villain's hideout.
Some Bond fans may argue that Spectre was planning to control intelligence streams in many countries by the Nine Eyes program. Indeed there was a big plot, but it was only hinted in the conversation, not described in the actual scenes.
To realize what I am saying, you have only to compare this film with some previous Bond movies. In Goldfinger, for instance, Fort Knox was really raided, and we saw the great interior of the bank. In YOLT, it showed us Spectre's spectacular facility, in which they launched a spacecraft to execute their plot. On the other hand, what on earth did "Spectre" show us??
To sum up, it is quite hard to visualize the war of information technology, which seems to be the theme of this film.
To make things worse, this film looks like the director and writers just invented the storyline in order to make a chain of exciting action scenes!! That is why I feel there is a big emptiness in the middle of the movie.
So, let me end my review by describing one scene in the film. In Spectre's hideout, Blofeld introduces Bond to his operations room, where a lot of staff sit at their computers. This scene somehow reminded me of a call center for telephone shopping.