The second worst of the series

Rating: 3/10 (12 November 2015)

It all starts out with a typical prologue where Bond destroys some buildings, kills some people and escapes in some daring manner. Usually he retrieves a clue or hint to progress the main film.
Then the title song comes and you start to wonder if they ran out of money for something better. The song has vague lyrics and the singing is not all that great. (compared to most other Bond themes). The visuals are nice, but then they throw in references from the other Daniel Craig Bond movies and your first "oh no, not again" passes through your mind.
Yes, they try to tie all the movies together in some form of a coherent story. They do it so badly (and way too often), however, it is not only annoying, it does more harm than good.
Throughout the story Bond follows some vague leads and mostly out of good luck he gets out alive and with a new clue to where to go next, but it remains a bread crumbs kind of trail leading from one place to the other, where at no point I had the feeling Bond was in control.
The plot holes in the movie are so many and are so big you kind of wonder why the production houses let it pass. There's the street race through Rome where exotic sport cars are driving down some stairs. Highly unlikely they would be able to do that. In fact, knowing that Bond was coming to the meeting, I was surprised Bond got away in the first place. Another hole with the torture device of Blofeld where he mentions that with the next drilling Bond will loose all memories. So he drills and despite some excruciating pain for our hero, nothing happens. The fact that Bond somehow knows C is a bad guy (willingly and knowingly) involved in the plot. And what's up with the secret lair in the middle of the desert?
just to name a few...
The most disturbing plot development must have been the revelation of Bond and Blofeld being long lost brothers... The person who invented this twist should have been shot, after being put in the chair of Blofelds torture device. It is just -wrong-.
When it comes down to acting Daniel Craig is still one of the better Bonds and surely puts him down very well. The more sensitive/vulnerable Bond is certainly not to my disliking. But both Christoph Waltz as Léa Seydoux are disappointing.
So the end verdict is that, despite you should see it, it's a Bond movie after all, it failed to do what you would expect. But maybe that's just me.