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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Spectre

SPECTRE (2015)
directed by 
[filmography: Skyfall (2012), Revolutionary Road (2008), Jarhead (2005), Road to Perdition (2002), American Beauty (1999)]

written by John Logan [Skyfall (2012), Hugo (2011), The Aviator (2004), Gladiator (2000)]Neal Purvis & Robert Wade [Skyfall (2012), Quantum of Solace (2008), Casino Royale (2006),Die Another Day (2002), The World Is Not Enough (1999)]Jez Butterworth [Black Mass (2015), Edge of Tomorrow (2014)]

ENJOYMENT: **½ (out of 4)
"A good Bond but nothing totally amazing about it"

In Spectre, Bond is facing an MI6 on the verge of shutdown by a government who believes it to be obsolete and an enemy who is supposedly the ring leader of all the previous Daniel Craig-Bond villains. As the most expensive Bond film ever made (costing $245 million), it doesn't quite offer much that we haven't seen before except spectacularly expensive crashes involving a brand new Aston Martin and small turboprop airplane. This film also expects you to remember plot details from the previous films, which I'm not sure if the average audience member is capable of (does anyone pay attention to the plots in these movies?). All in all, it's a run-of-the-mill Daniel Craig Bond film that is nowhere near as good as Skyfall or Casino Royale but better than Quantum of Solace.

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