007...out of 10

Rating: 7/10 (25 November 2015)

Just saw Spectre, and I am a bit disappointed. Not that it is a bad film, in fact you get everything you would expect from a Bond movie:the nasty bad guy at the head of a world wide criminal organisation, the clever gadgets including the amazing sport car, the Bond girl played by Léa Seydoux, well all the value for money you can ask for.
So what's wrong? I am afraid that it is Bond himself, who is not keeping with his time. James was created during the cold war, in a different world, and as a spy of the 50s, he was an exciting hero fighting the evil with humour and ruse. But the formulae has been used and reused, and does not work any more. Even his car fails to fire a missile, and the music theme cannot be remembered. The news reminds us every day which are the bad guys in the real world, but James is now lost in the past dream, that does not connect with the present. There will be more James Bond, but do we need them, not sure.