Spectre

Go to Film reviews go to Home page The Hunger Games Mocking Jay Part 2	Spectre stars Daniel Craig as James Bond agent 007 who when the film starts is investigating a secret organisation who we later learn after James has destroyed half a Mexican street, were the people behind previous Bond villains in Daneil Craig's James bond film. They are called Spectre. Bond was investigating them on the late M played by Judi Dench's request. So at the start of Spectre James Bond has gone rogue but this is only the beginning. The reason is Spectre is not just some criminal mastermind. They are trying to build an Intelligence committee that holds and controls most of the worlds intelligence agencies. This means that bond is back trying to save his job again. As this was the plot of Skyfall you could say this is Skyfall part 2. The action sequences although spectacular are totally unrealistic. The first major fight sequence is when Bond has just destroyed half a Mexican block. He chases the bad guy into a helicopter and starts fighting him while the helicopter spins up and down any time they hit the pilot. The most ridiculous fight scene is on a train when bond has to fight a huge man who looks like a bigger version of oddjob. They destroy some of the carriages on the train. Bond being the worse off by being thrown through the walls of the carriages. He defeated the man by throwing him of the train. This was done by linking the rope around his neck to some heavy barrels and throwing them off the train a homage to the killing of Oddjob in Goldfinger. After that he then has sex with the girl he was protecting which leads me to the romances in the film. The girl is called Dr Madeline Swann and her father is an acquaintance of Bond. What makes the scene unrealistic is that she resisted bonds charms when she is alone with him in a villa. Then after the fight scene in the train she asks what now. He kisses her and moves her to a room to have sex. The other unrealistic romantic scene happens earlier in the film. James bond had killed Lucia's husband in Mexico. He questions her rudely at her husband's funeral and then gets to have sex with her after saving her from two assassins. The locations in Spectre are beautiful. You have the lovely desert of Tangier in Morocco where James Bond and Dr Swann stay in a lovely villa. This helped with the pacing of the film making it slow, allowing you to take it all in. The beginning of the film was quite fast pace and was set in Mexico city during the day of dead festival. The place was packed with people as the film showed you all the celebrations with people dressed as skeletons. To fix on one skeleton dressed man which we later find out is Bond. Spectre keeps its self relevant to current affairs by having the countries vote whether they want whole surveillance. This allows audience to remember Snowden and his efforts to reveal NSA snooping. What is not widely known is the NSA trying to get everyone have a back door so they can spy on criminals. The argument against is that, are NSA sure that they would be the only ones who have access. Spectre also shows South Africa represented by blacks defending less surveillance. The acting is not good there is hardly any character development. James Bond does not seem to learn anything, he just hits harder. Eve Moneypenny played by Naomi Harris hardly does anything she is basically just used as a secretary. The funny part being that she is a secretary just not Bond's. Q played by Ben Wishaw manages to hack a top level system very easily. At time of watching, the suspension of disbelief was so much in the other sequences of the film I basically ignored Q's great win. Also his jokes are not funny. One of them was about bond's last car in Skyfall. He says “I ask you to bring the car in one piece not bring one piece”. The piece he brought was the steering wheel. Christoph Waltz plays Bond's main enemy Franz Oberhauser who is basically a homage to Blofeld. This is realised after bond blows up his factory and you see him on a helicopter with a scar going down one of his eyes. An injury from the explosion of his factory. He also has a white cat which you see during Bond's imprisonment at Oberhauser's factory. One of the best scenes of Franz is when he tells bond he is the author of all his pain. This is when he links all of Craig's bond villains in his previous films to him and his organisation Spectre. He talks about le Chiffre from Casino royale. The death of Vesper lynd (James bond's first love) as well as his plans in Quantum of Solace (Daniel Craig's second outing as bond). He also tells you that it was his father who he helped kill got Bond to cope after his parents death. The audience first learned of James bonds parents deaths in the previous Bond film Skyfall. Franz organisation is represented by an octopus. You first see it on a ring on which James gets from Mexico. James is not the only one busy fighting for his job. The new M played by Ralph Fiennes has to battle people in Whitehall to stop the termination of double O program. His main opposition is a man Bond calls C played by Andrew Scott who is the boss of the Join Intelligence service. C has signed himself with Franz Oberhauser organisation Spectre to further his whole world surveillance program. The Bond girl in this is film is Madeline Swann which I have mentioned when talking about the romances in the film. She is a bit smarter that usual bond girl which leads some character inconsistencies in the film. Overall Spectre tries to link all of Daniel Craig's James bond films altogether and fails miserably by getting lost in homages to earlier bond films and witty one liners. This is why Spectre is not a serious film.

Spectre stars Daniel Craig as James Bond agent 007 who when the film starts is investigating a secret organisation who we later learn after James has destroyed half a Mexican street, were the people behind previous Bond villains in Daneil Craig's James bond film. They are called Spectre.

Bond was investigating them on the late M played by Judi Dench's request. So at the start of Spectre James Bond has gone rogue but this is only the beginning. The reason is Spectre is not just some criminal mastermind. They are trying to build an Intelligence committee that holds and controls most of the worlds intelligence agencies. This means that bond is back trying to save his job again. As this was the plot of Skyfall you could say this is Skyfall part 2.

The action sequences although spectacular are totally unrealistic. The first major fight sequence is when Bond has just destroyed half a Mexican block. He chases the bad guy into a helicopter and starts fighting him while the helicopter spins up and down any time they hit the pilot. The most ridiculous fight scene is on a train when bond has to fight a huge man who looks like a bigger version of oddjob. They destroy some of the carriages on the train. Bond being the worse off by being thrown through the walls of the carriages. He defeated the man by throwing him of the train. This was done by linking the rope around his neck to some heavy barrels and throwing them off the train a homage to the killing of Oddjob in Goldfinger.

After that he then has sex with the girl he was protecting which leads me to the romances in the film. The girl is called Dr Madeline Swann and her father is an acquaintance of Bond. What makes the scene unrealistic is that she resisted bonds charms when she is alone with him in a villa. Then after the fight scene in the train she asks what now. He kisses her and moves her to a room to have sex. The other unrealistic romantic scene happens earlier in the film. James bond had killed Lucia's husband in Mexico. He questions her rudely at her husband's funeral and then gets to have sex with her after saving her from two assassins.

The locations in Spectre are beautiful. You have the lovely desert of Tangier in Morocco where James Bond and Dr Swann stay in a lovely villa. This helped with the pacing of the film making it slow, allowing you to take it all in. The beginning of the film was quite fast pace and was set in Mexico city during the day of dead festival. The place was packed with people as the film showed you all the celebrations with people dressed as skeletons. To fix on one skeleton dressed man which we later find out is Bond.

Spectre keeps its self relevant to current affairs by having the countries vote whether they want whole surveillance. This allows audience to remember Snowden and his efforts to reveal NSA snooping. What is not widely known is the NSA trying to get everyone have a back door so they can spy on criminals. The argument against is that, are NSA sure that they would be the only ones who have access. Spectre also shows South Africa represented by blacks defending less surveillance.

The acting is not good there is hardly any character development. James Bond does not seem to learn anything, he just hits harder. Eve Moneypenny played by Naomi Harris hardly does anything she is basically just used as a secretary. The funny part being that she is a secretary just not Bond's. Q played by Ben Wishaw manages to hack a top level system very easily. At time of watching, the suspension of disbelief was so much in the other sequences of the film I basically ignored Q's great win. Also his jokes are not funny. One of them was about bond's last car in Skyfall. He says “I ask you to bring the car in one piece not bring one piece”. The piece he brought was the steering wheel. Christoph Waltz plays Bond's main enemy Franz Oberhauser who is basically a homage to Blofeld. This is realised after bond blows up his factory and you see him on a helicopter with a scar going down one of his eyes. An injury from the explosion of his factory. He also has a white cat which you see during Bond's imprisonment at Oberhauser's factory. One of the best scenes of Franz is when he tells bond he is the author of all his pain. This is when he links all of Craig's bond villains in his previous films to him and his organisation Spectre. He talks about le Chiffre from Casino royale. The death of Vesper lynd (James bond's first love) as well as his plans in Quantum of Solace (Daniel Craig's second outing as bond). He also tells you that it was his father who he helped kill got Bond to cope after his parents death. The audience first learned of James bonds parents deaths in the previous Bond film Skyfall. Franz organisation is represented by an octopus. You first see it on a ring on which James gets from Mexico. James is not the only one busy fighting for his job. The new M played by Ralph Fiennes has to battle people in Whitehall to stop the termination of double O program. His main opposition is a man Bond calls C played by Andrew Scott who is the boss of the Join Intelligence service. C has signed himself with Franz Oberhauser organisation Spectre to further his whole world surveillance program. The Bond girl in this is film is Madeline Swann which I have mentioned when talking about the romances in the film. She is a bit smarter that usual bond girl which leads some character inconsistencies in the film.

Overall Spectre tries to link all of Daniel Craig's James bond films altogether and fails miserably by getting lost in homages to earlier bond films and witty one liners. This is why Spectre is not a serious film.

Spectre

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