Review of Spectre (2015) by T-Rodney — 01 Dec 2015

Spectre was definitely a good film, but this is the case whereby the sequel did not pass it's predecessors . First of all the opening scene of the movie was great, it was well shot and fun but the tempo for the rest of the film went downhill from there.

What this movie really had was solid performances, like Daniel Craig's performance as James Bond(gold as always), Benjamin Whishaw as Q was also good, and Ralph Fiennes as M who surprisingly filled Judi Dench shoes well, but Christoph Waltz as the villain was rather disappointing,he never really feels like he is part of the movie because his screen time is short and even when he is there he really didn't do much as Oberhauser(Blofeld), in the last act there was some hope, but all potential was wasted, don't get me wrong he wasn't a bad villain it's just that he didn't do much.

The run-time of the film was okay for me, it didn't feel too long because of the chemistry between Léa Seydoux and Daniel Craig(even at times it felt a bit forced).Going in to this movie it was always going to be compared to Skyfall,which was amazing and going out of this film I wasn't as amazed, the plot was rather small compared to Skyfall making the risks not quite as big, which came off as a huge disappointment, but the film covered up with some one liner humour which the film pulled off so well and the action was okay not great but satisfying especially the car chase scenes which were awesome.

Spectre was definitely not perfect, but I enjoyed this film, it tied up all of Daniel Craig's films neatly,came to a satisfying end, so overally not as great as Syfall but a good film in it's own right.