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A Dirty Martini: Not Shaken, Not Stirred (Spectre)

11/4/2015

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This film portrays a much more subtle Bond than I am used to.  After Skyfall, it is clearly hard to come up with a follow-up movie.  Sam Mendes succeeds in creating a film that is the second best of the Daniel Craig series, but it recalls the older films minus a lot of action.  The pacing of the film starts rolling right away with the first scene, but slows down almost instantly for the first half of the film.  Not much action occurs until the second half of the film and I felt myself dozing off a bit throughout the first half.

With that said, I wish that the villains were a bit more prominent.  Dave Bautista makes and awesome henchmen to the main villain, but Christoph Waltz's character does not get the build-up that most Bond villains get.  When I found out that Waltz was going to be the main villain in Spectre, the hype-train really started rolling.  By the end of the film I was left with a bit of disappointment because his character lacked a lot of development.  Of course, Daniel Craig was great as always and Lea Seydoux was a great Bond girl.  The story just felt too focused on their relationship whereas I wanted more of the Bond-villain relationship.

The action was the usual action involved in a Bond film.  Nothing really popped out, but the action used was fun nonetheless.  Accompanied by a great Newman score, the intensity builds up as the film unravels.  I also really enjoyed the Sam Smith song for the theme, but the visual opening credits lacked the creativeness that Skyfall and previous Bond movies had.  

The Bottom Line:  This is an average Bond movie with a lack of development for supporting characters and an overwhelmingly typical use of action sequences.

​Score: 7.5/10

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