![]() ![]() Plot-wise (and some big spoilers follow if you haven’t seen the film yet), the evil organisation formerly known as Quantum from earlier movies is now a part of a larger evil organisation called SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion), and the man behind it all, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), is Bond’s half-brother.īond falls in love again, with Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) who is a worth companion for 007 in this movie. Stylishly, SPECTRE knocks all previous Bond films out of the ejector seat window and runs them down like a loose Russian tank on the streets of Saint Petersburg. Not as great as Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, and while Skyfall had more brilliant elements, SPECTRE overall was better than Craig’s third outing. This then is a long route to get to the point I was trying to make, how good is SPECTRE? However, despite my minor quibbles, the three Daniel Craig films far surpassed anything done in the Bond series before him, and I was a big fan of Dalton’s and Brosnan’s first efforts, The Living Daylights and Goldeneye respectively. And the whole return of Goldfinger’s Aston Martin was way too anachronistic and made no sense at all. Skyfall, while a fantastic film, felt like a letdown, mostly because only after two films in a rebooted series, Bond was being asked if he was still relevant? Was he too old for spying? Had the world moved on from his style of espionage? ![]() Bond in the lifeless Chilean desert was brilliant. Two years later came Quantum of Solace, which if watched as a direct sequel to Casino Royale is my second favourite, particularly how it follows Bond’s path of revenge and redemption after the loss of the only woman he loved, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). I consider Casino Royale the highpoint of the whole Bond movie fifty-plus year history, a perfect film in story, character, plot, pace and action, but also because it set up so well everything that has happened to Bond since. Let me start by going back 10 years, to Casino Royale, the first Daniel Craig outing as 007, for this film gives context to SPECTRE because everything is connected. Arguably, Craig is also the world’s most popular actor ever to portray Secret British Agent 007 - he’s certainly made the most money for the franchise - so I write this review expecting that anyone reading this will have already seen it. With the release of SPECTRE as a downloadable movies, I thought I’d revisit the latest James Bond film with a review.ĭaniel Craig returns for his fourth outing as the world’s most popular spy.
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