Mediocre

Rating: 4/10 (17 May 2016)

If the Star Trek movies were good on the even numbers (the older movies), then the Bond movies are following a similar pattern but on the odd numbers. Casino Royale was passable, Quantum of Solace made no sense and Skyfall was okay.
This brings me on to Spectre. It had a lot of promise but failed to deliver on so many levels. We had a film based around one of the best known criminal organisations in the form of Spectre and one of Bond's most iconic villains in the form of Blofeld. Here is my first problem; I felt Waltz was a good choice to play Blofeld but he is seriously underused. Dave Bautista actually gets more screen time, or at least it feels like he does.
What I feel really let down by is the premise that the previous three films are somehow tied together but in order for that to happen the audience needs to be able to look back and go 'Oh, yes'. Instead we have a standalone film with very little, if anything, that made me think back to the earlier films. For me this was a lazy film, albeit with some nice action sequences but if I want a brainless action film I will go back and watch an old JCVD or Steven Segal movie.
In fairness this film is better than Quantum of Solace but it spends a lot of time building up the plot and very little time resolving a lot of issues.