Could have been better

Rating: 7/10 (5 March 2016)

This Bond is not so bad, but there is something that could have done it better: a good villain. Obviously we always tend to compare the last Bond with the previous one. In this case, we compare Spectre with Skyfall. By avoiding other comparisons that other people have done, in my opinion the most important is that where the first one had a very good villain (Bardem was excellent), this one lacks of it. Christophe Waltz is an excellent actor, one of the best in this moment, but he is not too much present in the movie, and when he is present he does not transmit all the wickedness that he should. He seems too kind, also too fragile to be as evil as his character should be, and we feel immediately that he is not a dangerous rival for 007. At the end of the movie I felt immediately that this was the error. I would have liked seeing more confrontations between James Bond and his opponent, and, why not, confrontations between Waltz and Craig as actors, but we have not had too much opportunities for that.