abysmal waste of brilliantly procured assets !!

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2015)

never thought a bond film with the best bond i.e. Daniel Craig will be so bad that i will actually be forced to write my first film review.
plain boring, unimaginative, half baked and amateurish. this is a film by a person who has gone to the grocery shop and picked the best ingredients possible and then spent no effort in cooking the actual meal with those ingredients! you have outstanding actors, the most menacing and iconic villain / evil organisation ever created in film history [ spectre is up there with the galactic empire ] plus a ridiculous mount of money and assets at your disposal but you are so complacent, probably because of the misplaced overpraise you received in the previous Skyfall, that you just don't bother anymore. or maybe you don't actually know how to make a good bond film, as proved by the over rated Skyfall. Sam Mendes should be nowhere near a bond film as he has no cinematic vision or understanding of action or elation and is clueless as to how to build and finish an action scene. in fact even the human part is half baked at best.
Casino was a beautifully judged film which modernized and recreated Bond. Quantum was even better as it was so cutting edge in its engineering that it further propelled bond towards modern cinema [ maybe too fast, arty and subtle for most and so not liked generally. i do admit it is my favourite Bond film as it is like a bullet. quick, lethal, and brief.] it sets up Bond perfectly to fit into his routine.all we needed now was a big bond adventure based on the classic formula but with updated technique, mood and aesthetics.
then comes along mr mendes and undo's all that effort by trying to reset Bond again and that too as a damned Soap Opera. Skyfall has the same fundamental issues as Spectre. no use of ingredients. e.g. superb abandoned island location. no payoff. brilliant villain but his only evil ambition is to kill an old woman for revenge. bond is reduced to mommy fixation more apt to Indian films. retrogressive themes as well as cinematic technique. no thrills, bland execution and not even one really well finished set piece. and now in Spectre all the problems with Skyfall are magnified by a 100. out of date film making. key word ' WASTE '. waste of Craig, SPECTRE, Christoph, Belucci, money etc etc. the much applauded opening shot is pointless as there is no reason for it. a long tracking shot does tell you itself why it was shot like that. here the reason is just 'i wanna do a long tracking shot'. not one intelligent action sequence that leads to an engaging finish. ironically, great acting though. pity the material given to them was so shoddy. i just pray and request the producers to please give Craig one good farewell film as it very unfair if this is the last film by an artist who has given his heart and soul to a character and successfully reinvented and bettered it against all odds. his work as Bond is cinematic greatness at many levels and we the loyal fans and Mr Craig both deserve a better Bond. Please look forward from Quantum not backwards of Diamonds Are forever.