Saturday 9 July 2016

Stumbling to a close

Spectre (2015)

Directed by Sam Mendes this is the 24th film in the Bond franchise staring Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Lea Seydoux and Ben Whishaw. Following up on a lead left by M after she died Bond finds himself investigating a shadowy organisation.

There is a lot of potential in this film but it fell completely flat for me despite it's attempts to be both politically relevant on surveillance and move Bond forward as a character. Nothing ever really hits home and this feels like a tired, token effort to close up a plot thread that has been running through the Daniel Craig films. Sam Mendes brings a good look and some nice locations to the film but that is not enough to carry things.


3/5

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