RetroSpectre

Rating: 5/10 (31 October 2015)

Well what can we say. Another year another bond movie. Some say its spectacular and some say its ridiculous. Well which one is it?
To be honest its the latter. This is probably the weakest James Bond movies of all time. Not trying to be a critic here, but even ' Die Another Day' was more entertaining than this movie. This coming from a person who has seen all the earlier movies and is a true fan of the franchise. Also I am a huge fan of Daniel Craig's acting and Sam Mendes' directing skills. But all of that and a 300 million budget cannot save 'Spectre' from being the most boring movie of 2015.
As mentioned by everyone else the strongest thing about this movie is the single shot starting scene which is brilliant. After that it all goes downhill.
The theme song is pretty crappy with Sam Smith literally crying compared to the amazing Adele from Skyfall.Monica Belluci appears for ten seconds just to have an intimate moment with bond whom she just met like three seconds ago. Batista the beast is pretty much useless and has a silent role without any real dialogue. There is a medical clinic, high in the mountains of Austria for some reason. We met the evil woman from Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol who is the female lead here. Bond needs to find what L'American is. He does everything to find what it is other than use Google search, as this movie is against technology. Because if we use technology the double O program will be obsolete and all that.Bond crashes planes and escapes unscathed. He shoots Helicopters in the air with his Walther(amazing range that gun has). Christoph Waltz is completely under utilized as Blofeld. The reason why he wants to torture bond is so silly that I wanted to kill myself. Also they already kind of did that in Austin Powers Goldmember where Dr. evil and Austin end up as brothers.
The real reason for all this negativity is that after Skyfall we expected more from MGM and the Brocoli's and they failed to deliver. Today's audience you will find is not a forgiving one.
Having said all of this I think its time to hit the reboot button again for this franchise. Although I would love to see Craig do another one which I hope ends up like Skyfall or Casino Royale. But hey I am the king of wishful thinking !!!