(00)7 out of 10...

Rating: 7/10 (27 October 2015)

It's good, it's entertaining, it's not great. I found it a little pedestrian and predictable in places, wondering where the tension was going to come from. Waltz is not used to menace or terrify anywhere near enough. Craig doesn't build on the 'damaged/wrecked/possibly over the hill' agent he was in Skyfall. The passing mentions to the devastation he's left in his wake seem to be merely passing mentions and are not thoroughly explored psychologically within Bond's mindset. Not as good as Casino Royale or Skyfall, probably on a par with Quantum. The theme tune summed it up for me, a bit limp, meanders around a bit, doesn't really have much drama too it and a bit forgettable. Just like Quantum!
Why they didn't follow up Casino Royale with a decent up to date remake of Live And Let Die (decent storyline to destabilise the British economy with gold coins - economic terrorism? - is a real shame) and follow the original sequence that Fleming wrote in the original books and you'd have some decent stories that fans would buy in to...