Spectre is to Skyfall what Quantum was to Casino

Rating: 5/10 (27 October 2015)

I love 007 and always have, I have been happily patient whilst Sam Mendez tries to 'reboot' the franchise. So; I went into Spectre with my expectations on the ceiling. Perhaps not the best place to start any film, but any follow on from Skyfall has to be good, right?... Unfortunately after a great start; Spectre Disappointed. The opening scenes could have been the climax of any good Action Film, but after that it flopped for me. The film seems to obsessed with 'tying up' all the previous 007s without making a novel or interesting point. It doesn't even address the previous films too well, leaving many questions unanswered. The action is fast and beautifully choreographed, but the sense of danger is missing; unlike Skyfall when it seemed 007s world would be destroyed at any given moment, the threat in Spectre was distinctly absent. The Character of 'C' was (for me) uninteresting and predictable form the outset. If this wasn't a Bond film it would have been rated higher for me, but 007 comes with a certain gravitas; that was lacking this time out.