The problem comes in the final two-thirds. Other than that, the first third is superb, packed with action and real mystery. It never feels fast enough or dangerous enough and might as well have been a casual joyride on a Sunday. It’s handled with a distracted disinterest. It’s brilliant! Well mostly brilliant, there’s a car chase between Bond and one of SPECTRE’s henchmen – Mr Hinx – that we were promised in the trailer that just doesn’t live up to the billing. It has everything that we love about Bond: fast cars, beautiful women, evil organisations trying to take over the world. Bond is running around the world investigating this organisation and causing all kinds of havoc. Spectre isn’t all bad though, in fact, the first third is rather excellent. Another similarity they shared is that both films disappointed me. Both films follow agents who have gone rogue chasing some criminal organisation that no one else believes exists while the agency they work for faces closure from some vague political opponent.
I’m pretty sure that this film and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation started out as the exact same script.The respective writers for both films merely changed the name of the agents and the country they work for but besides that, the plots of both films are eerily similar.
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As a result, there are parts of this movie that I absolutely loved and parts that nearly put me to sleep. It flips and flops between these two contrasting styles and ends up feeling rather disjointed. It half wants to be a classic James Bond movie and half wants to be a modern, visceral, overly-emotional retelling of the Bond story. This movie feels like it’s at war with itself.
Oh and on a separate – and completely unnecessary – note, MI6 along with the ’00’ program is facing closure. The head of this network is a ghost from Bond’s past who has secretly been the dark hand behind all of Bond’s suffering.
Bond’s true mission, however, is only just beginning as he travels to Rome and infiltrates a secret meeting, a meeting of a criminal network called SPECTRE. Okay, basic plot: after completing an unsanctioned mission in Mexico City, Bond (Daniel Craig) is indefinitely suspended by M. First there was the fun of Casino Royale then the disappointment of Quantum of Solace the refined magnificent of Skyfall, now we have the obscurity of Spectre. I guess you can’t have your cake and eat it. It seems that you can’t have two excellent Daniel Craig Bond movies in a row.
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