Review of Spectre (2015) by Alex M — 11 Mar 2017

Specter is a mixture of all the great bond moments blended into a movie ever Bond fan will be sure to enjoy. So what was so awesome about this film?

Well for starters we are given a killer opening scene in Mexico City where we see stupendously choreographed stunt work involving a fight scene on a helicopter, in which the helicopter spins out of control over a crowd of people celebrating Día de Los Muertos with Bond, the opening villain, and the pilot using hand to hand combat whilst on the helicopter. Bond then sends the villain plummeting to his death and kills the pilot and flies back to England and we cut to the Classic Artsy Bond Opening.

Secondly, take a look at the cast, we have the dashing Daniel Craig reprising his role as Bond, we have the impeccable Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, and Ben Whishaw reprising their roles as M, Miss Moneypenny, and Q. Then we have the great Christoph Waltz as The main villain Franz Oberhauser, who turns out to be the notorious Ernst Stavro Blofeld (the head of the Specter Organization) and last but not least we have the beautiful French actress, Léa Seydoux as the lead Bond girl. Now aside from the cast, I also enjoyed that we actually got to see the character M out in the field instead of in his office like all the other bond films, I thought that was a nice breath of fresh air added to the series and really fleshed out the new M's Character. I also enjoyed the teamwork between Bond and the leading bond girl, Madeleine Swann, as well as the chemistry between Blofeld and Bond.

So we got the good stuff covered, but what were the movie's faults? Well for starters a lot of the scenes were dragged on way too long, which after awhile got rather old. I was also disappointed on how little screen time the villain actually got. However then again Blofeld was never in the movies for very long as was pretty much just the guy lurking in the shadows, also this is possibly his first appearance and could possibly return in the next film. However, the fact that this character's appearance was built up so much and then is only given a little over 3 scenes is kind of a disappointment.

Although it has faults, Specter is overall a great Bond Film and I recommend you give it a watch. 4/5 stars.