Sam Mendes' Spectre is a perfectly competent installation in the James Bond series. But that's sorta the problem, isn't it? The previous James Bond film Skyfall (2012) ranks as one of the best films in the entire series while Spectre is just...okay. For one thing it isn't as visually impressive as Skyfall: three of the major location set pieces (Mexico City, Rome, Morocco) have almost identical color palettes. Only the stark white Austrian Alps provide any real variety. The most visually striking sequences are the opening ones taking place at the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City (notice the impressive opening crane shot). But my biggest complaint is that the third act of the film needed another screenplay draft. Characters become rock-stupid idiots (Why, oh why, did Dr. Madeline Swann leave James Bond's protection in London? I'll tell you why: because the screenwriters needed for her to get kidnapped so she could get rescued by Bond...again...), Ernst Stavro Blofeld becomes effectively immortal--surviving both a catastrophic explosion and a fiery helicopter crash--and the film can't quite decide if the eponymous criminal cabal is a gathering of super-criminals interested in profit or an anarchic "New World Order" organization.
7/10
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