Review of Spectre (2015) by Chazd3 — 06 Nov 2015
I love Daniel Craig as 007. I loved Pierce Brosnan as well. If Pierce was a Formula 1 race car, Daniel would be a Top fuel dragster. Both fun to watch in different ways. Spectre took a Top fuel dragster and tried to run it in the Monaco Grand Prix.
The story was disjointed bordering on incomprehensible. The plot, if you can call it that, was slow as molasses in January. 007 was popping up all over Europe in scene after scene after scene instantly wearing dozens of wardrobes GQ magazine would envy, and all with only a duffel.
At first it was campy 007 artistic license, but for me it became so obvious it became a mild distraction. There were way too many Sherlock Holmes-esque slow motion meanderings occasionally punctuated by gun fights that reminded me of Westerns from the 50's & 60's when the bad guy fired a thousand blanks and the good guy's bullets were real and unerring.
The realism was squashed and the campy approach had been made inappropriate. Even the million dollar luxury sports car chase was a waste of million dollar sports cars. They didn't know the kind of movie they really wanted, and neither did I.
The last 20 minutes and I was looking at my watch.
This review of Spectre (2015) was written by Chazd3 on 06 Nov 2015.
Spectre has generally received positive reviews.
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