Review of Spectre (2015) by Cole C — 20 Apr 2016

Spectre, according to the Merriam-Webster means something that haunts or perturbs the mind. Which is what Daniel Craig's last showing as Bond does to you. SPECTRE leaves us with a memory of Daniel Craig's legacy upon James Bond. With Daniel Craig, Bond has been able to transform into the new era. The love story within SPECTRE, you will find lacking, but the action sequences will make up for it. SPECTRE is a breathtaking display of the end of the Daniel Craig chapter in The Bond Franchise.

The latest installment of Bond captures truly breathtaking scenery from all across the globe. The movie begins in Mexico City, shuffles around in London, cruzes though Italy, scales though the mountains of Austria, relaxes on a short train ride through the Moroccan desert and crash lands back in London for the final scenes. Although this is nothing new to the Bond franchise. Since Dr. No the name James Bond has opened up places many would only dream of seeing. Other things that most men would only dream of is the cars that 007 drives or should I say demolishes. SPECTRE features an Aston Martin DB10, which was made just for this movie and will not make its way onto Aston Martin's production line.

Bond has been very limited due to Q's, MI6's technology specialist, abilities and knowledge. In the movie Die Another Day, it displays an older Q that has grown into his role and is very ingenious with the gadgets that he provides Bond. In SPECTRE Q is quite young and doesn't have the experience or knowledge to provide Bond with a plethora of gadgets. In the future you will see Q grow into his role as Quartermaster of MI6 and he will be able to provide Bond with more gadgets.

The story of Bond falling in love and leaving MI6 for Madeleine Swann is not believable. The love story between Bond and Vesper in Casino Royale, has chemisty, charm and romance. During Bond and Vesper, first encounter, they trade wits. During the hotel fight scene Vesper ends up assisting Bond in killing two african warlords. After you see Bond comforting Vesper in the shower and cleaning the blood of her hands. After the poker game Bond and Vesper confess their love for one another and decide to sail around the world in love. The love story in SPECTRE lacks all romance and chemistry. There is no relationship building in SPECTRE, Swann rejects all of Bonds advances and forces Bond to sleep in the chair. She even threatens Bond with his life. Even when Bond frees Swann from SPECTRE's henchmen Swann pushes Bond away and doesn't run into his arms, like other Bond girls. These actions are not romantic or helpful in developing any relationship between Bond and Swann.

Bond movies have always kept you on the edge of your chair with the action sequences, SPECTRE continues that tradition. The movie opens with Bond blowing up a building and chasing SPECTRE operative into a helicopter which Bond commandeers. There is an amazing fight scene between Bond and Mr. Hinx, another SPECTRE operative on a train. You see bond sharpen up his flying skills by crashing a plane into an escaping SPECTRE convoy to save Swann.

Overall the movie is a great bond film, and will not go down as one of Daniel Craig's greatest movies. Since the love story between Bond and Swann is not believable. This still shows great scenery, great climactic action sequences, and displays Bond's ability to do the impossible.