Had all the right ingredients to be great, but ...

Rating: 7/10 (2 December 2015)

Minor spoilers ahead, but no need to check the spoiler alert box since they all all too trivial.
"Casino Royale" was (apart from Nolan's "Batman Returns"), the biggest franchise reboot of the past decades: A brand new Bond: blond, fit, misanthropic yet likable, arrogant yet faulty and of course in... love.
"Quantum of Solace" was somehow inferior but yet contained nearly the same elements.
"Skyfall" did raise the bar significantly: we were also introduced to an aging wounded Bond doing a one-to-one fight against the devil himself. Great modern action scenes and a exceptional old-school ending.
Now the 4th Daniel Craig film did not live to (my) expectations. "Spectre" contained all the right ingredients mentioned above, but blended in a convoluted and uninteresting story.
So you will see exotic places, great action sequences, fight scenes, car chases and explosions, but without any real drama in them.
More sadly you'll see a Bond from "the past", a Bond flying planes and helicopters, fighting and winning against hordes of villains! Yes we liked the rough no-plan approach Daniel Craig introduced, but the producers clearly enhanced it to near recklessness.
If you are an 80s Bond aficionado, you'll like this film. And it made tons of money already.
But the route the producers chose towards the traditional Bond way is IMHO not the right one.
Enjoyable *7/10, but forgettable.