A cringe-worthy end to James Bond, shame Bond

Rating: Null/10 (25 March 2016)

I've never been a fan of James Bond movies. One agent/superhero doing everything impossible, like in the Mission Impossible series, does not really appeal to me. However, after the fantastic addition to Bond series with Casino Royale, I thought maybe this could be the start of a new era in Bond series as the main character was not there just for his looks, but also for his acting. Daniel Craig raised the game to a higher level that all the other agent/action series were forced to keep up, creating more background stories with more realistic characters. What happened next was, the director changed from Martin Campbell to Marc Forster and the moviegoers thought "What an odd choice is that?". Casino Royale's director Martin Campbell had a background of action movies and he proved that an action movie could also premise some drama and real acting in it.
Marc Forster's Quantum of Solace must have been still a warning for us to how low Bond series might sink because the editing and the performances began to lose their grip. Then came Skyfall, yes directed by another director who had zero background in action movies, Sam Mendes. By the way I can't even remember the faces of the Bond girls in all these 3 movies except with Eva Green. The girls started to come in and get out, falling into Bond's arms so quickly that we began to wonder how he could manage get under their skins, you know, that quickly in the first place. After Bond and M played a bit of "Home Alone", the movie left the fans all empty, missing Casino Royale.
For all these reasons I had no intention to watch Spectre at the theater. I was 100% sure that I'd be bored and disappointed again so I waited for the DVD. But I was lucky to find it by chance on the plane! In a nearly 3 hours flight, I watched Spectre on a tiny screen and believe me, I missed nothing than a person who paid 12 Euros to watch it on the big screen. The opening song was the first thing that put me off. Am I going to watch an episode of "Young and Restless" or a "James Bond" movie? Secondly, the very famous talked-about helicopter scene was there looking very impossible to execute indeed and now I realize that that was maybe the only average action scene in the movie.
If Christoph Waltz is supposed to be the worst villain in James Bond series, I'll be damned, he is as cute as a grandpa here. I am sure that his performance was under his league because of this horrendous script. All the other fight scenes felt like as if someone's playing Counter Strike game since they never got shot-and could shoot others super easily, the scenes were completely surreal and absurd. It is like making fun of our intelligence as spectators. Literally Daniel Craig was never in danger at all in any of the scenes other than a possible threat of a wart after jumping on Monica Belluci so fast. Really, that scene was very creepy too. I felt embarrassed for both of them.
So far I could say "Spectre" is the worst of the latest Bond series and deserved plain "1" with its greatest efforts. Watch it on the plane, train or on a bus, don't waste your money.