Nothing Like The 007 I Know or Grew Up With - Unfortunately!

Rating: 2/10 (7 November 2015)

I grew up the on the 007 films and books starting in the early 70's. Since then, of course, I have seen every Bond film there is and read almost all of the books. This is far from anything I that grew up with, as were all of the Daniel Craig/007 films. As with the first two, I found very little to like with this one.
The Bond/007 formula has been completely removed from every one of Craig's films, leaving us with little more than just another action film that's hardly engaging. At least with this one there was promise of the 007 gadgets. However, even that was a big disappointment.
The music was equally disappointing and hardly worthy of a Bond film. And though this last film did have the Bond theme, it was only utilized at the beginning and the very end. The remainder of the film's score was less than memorable or complimentary to the experience.
As for the characters, all of them have been redone to fit someone's idea of a new age and not one of them is interesting or enticing.
Whoever put this film and its two predecessors together only wishes they had half the artistic quality, imagination and production capability that it took to produce the first 20 years of Bond and captivate generations to come.
As I come to a close, I'd like to say this last installment was so long and boring that I had a very difficult time staying awake for whole thing. The only reason I tried was because I hoped to see something I might like about the film. Unfortunately my effort was in vain and I did not.
The last thing I'd like to say here is that I wish the folks at Hollywood would quit trying to change and remake everything I grew up with just to impress the new generations. For whatever reason they can't seem to figure out how to do it right and they are failing on an epic scale with every effort.