Stunned by the Good Reviews

Rating: 3/10 (8 November 2015)

I am absolutely stunned by how good the professional and IMDb user reviews are for this movie. This was absolutely the worst offering of the Daniel Craig quartet of Bond movies, and it is a serious contender for the worst Bond movie in 50 years.
Believe me, I love the franchise. I think Craig is easily the best Bond ever. I thought Casino Royale wasn't just the best Bond movie of all time -- I thought it was one of the 25 best movies ever made. I even liked Quantum, and thought it was unfairly disparaged.
But this? Holy crap, they are just mailing it in. I could write 3 pages about how every scene, every interaction, every plot development, every character....EVERYTHING is just forced, contrived, insincere, uninteresting, poorly thought out, rushed, underdeveloped and just lame. Nothing is funny, nothing is romantic, nothing is convincing. I was intensely bored by the second half of the movie, and by the end the plot was so pathetic I felt like I was watching Austin Powers.
In the end it still gets 5 stars because Daniel Craig is the best Bond and the Mexico City opening is pretty good. But wow, just wow. It is unbelievable this is the same franchise that brought Casino Royale to the world.