Mendes and motors
After all the hype, SPECTRE felt a little like a ‘jolly boys outing’ for Messrs Mendes and Craig. If this is Craig’s swansong then I believe he (and Mendes) have left the series in a very strong position – but it didn’t have the urgency or necessary danger of previous 007 outings, especially Skyfall. The Bond/Hinx car chase around the Vatican was quite sedate; it felt like Bond was taking the new Aston Martin for a test drive. I also felt Christoph Waltz gave us a watered-down version of his Inglourious
Basterds villain. There were some very exciting moments – the precredits sequence, the Alps chase, the train fight – the female characters weren’t just set dressing and it was good to see more screen time for Moneypenny, Q and M. But overall it left me a little shaken and certainly not stirred.
dave skillern, mid glamorgan Awful! From the trailers/clips I could tell
SPECTRE was going to be bad and poorly written, and I was proven right. I should’ve known when the interviews went on about how the set-pieces were bigger than Skyfall... Translation: they gave up on writing proper dialogue and forgot about a story. There wasn’t one! Daniel Craig was meant to be a new, grittier James Bond, so why are we running to the past?
sadia, VIA EMAIL After visiting my local cinema to see SPECTRE I was left feeling annoyed. Not by the film which was gloriously entertaining, but the people who attended the same screening. My enjoyment was somewhat dampened by people continuously talking, checking their phones… we even had to listen to someone’s ringtone. Can we not introduce some sort of vetting process for these big franchise films to keep out those who go and ruin average cinema-goer’s enjoyment?
matt , derby Maybe the pests could be shamed by an update of that old pre-film warning with the handbag-snatching snake: “Beware… Thieves are silent… and if those lowlives can keep their gobs shut, so can you!!” As for SPECTRE’s ‘sedate’ chase, they were clearly being respectful of a certain local resident needing some shut-eye after a hard day’s Pope-ing. Some people still have manners!
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